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Weekly Photo Challenge – Today

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The photo challenge this week was a photo of "today", taken on the day you read the challenge. I had planned to do a few shots, you know a little photo essay on how I spent a rainy Sunday. In the end Princess Child and I snapped this on our way to the video shop and ... well that was the sum total of our effort. As the rain pelted down we watched … [Read more...]

Weekly Photo Challenge – Summer

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While I sit here rugged up in my winter woolies, the Weekly Photo Challenge asks me to cast my mind back to the summer. It was a soggy season, lots of rain and not nearly enough hot sun. However during one warm day Princess Child got out into the front yard and proved you can never be too old for a bit of fun with the garden hose and sprinkler. She … [Read more...]

Weekly Photo Challenge – Out of Focus

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I wasn't planning to play along with the photo challenge this week because I thought it was silly to feature out-of-focus shots. Not that I don't have plenty of them but because we always like to present our best don't we? We relegate the blurry, not quite right to the delete pile because they don't conform to the image of perfection we want to … [Read more...]

Weekly Photo Challenge – Two Subjects

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Had a lot of trouble trying to find a photo with two subjects - will have to try and get my brother onto the job - in the meantime, with apologies, here is as close as I can get to two subjects with a photo I took some time ago of the local Catholic Church. I have edited it in PicMonkey using the Daguerreotype Frame - which did take away from the … [Read more...]

Grey stairs.
Father with two daughters.