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  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: (Things with) Engines or Motors

    At a certain point on one of my favourite trails, we find scattered into the vegetation the remaining parts of an old Ford truck, that was left behind when that land was  sold, and the old mill that used to run there moved somewhere else. The truck is not reallly recognizable anymore and the most Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath My Feet

    I am the happiest when there is a trail beneath my feet. Always! And especially if they’re with me…   This post was written is response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet. Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hands, Feet or Paws

    For the picture challenges I prefer picking only one photo, but since this week’s Black and While challenge has sort of 3 themes, I decided to post 3, one for each. Hands: Feet: Paws (actually claws ;o): This post waws written in response to the Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hands, Feet or Paws Read more

  • Travel theme: Land meets Water

    When land meets water, but you don’t know where the line actually sits… This post was written in response to the Travel theme: Land meets Water Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Older than 50 Years

    Earlier this month, we had a long weekend with the Holiday of 4th of July, which also happened to be the last weekend of my parents’ visit. We decided then to take them to a pretty place they haven’t seen yet, and spent a few days in the Columbia River Gorge area, between Washington and Read more

  • After the rain

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  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 Steps or less and take new photos

    I’ve been trying to take this picture for this challenge for a couple of days now, but I always had only my phone, which is not good at all for macro pictures. Then today, in spite of the not-so-great weather, I took my Canon and went for the tiny walk that leads me to those Read more

  • Ese’ s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Buzz

    Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need. Amy Whitehouse Although for me is actually only 2 times a week. On the other days I go for walks, not the gym…   Written in response to Ese’ Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Touch

    Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Touch Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence

    See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa of Calcutta This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intangible

    Our technologized society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible. Honor Harger   And these are only a few of the ones that came with us on our family vacation… This post was written in response to Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate

    I admit being guilty… The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Allure

    The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Read more

  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reflections and Shadows

    Cell phone reflecting the trees and sky (and a bit of the camera too…) This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Reflection and Shadows Read more

  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wheels

    Have you ever seen a tree on wheels?   This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Wheels Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession

    I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth   written in response to the Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession Read more

  • Mushrooms

    Today things were very easy at work. Very! So I decided to go for a walk and bring a camera with me. My initial plan was to take pictures o fall colors, but the weather wasn’t really cooperating and the light was not too good for nice colorful pictures. So instead, I decided to look Read more

  • Mt. Rainier Wildflowers

    A couple of weeks ago, my cousin came to visit us and we took the Sunday to take him to Mt. Rainier National Park. The weather was not completely clean, as there were a few clouds, but it was still pretty sunny and beautiful. The park is beautiful year-round, so I can’t even say it Read more

  • Pretty flowers

    On the garden between my office building and the neighboring one…   Read more

  • Went Kayaking

    I have an account at a site called EveryMove, that gives you rewards for every move you make. Any kind of exercising: running, cycling, gardening, cleaning the house, playing with kids… every move. Recently one of the rewards I got was a free 2 hour session of kayaking instruction and guided tour at sunset, at Read more