A Rock Cafe bar and restaurant at night, its neon sign shaped like a red and blue electric guitar glowing above an outdoor patio with diners seated at tables under leafy trees in Albufeira, Portugal.

What Moves You?

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Lens-Artists Challenge #416: Music I often hear people say that music is the universal language. At some level, music touches people and goes beyond language barriers. Whether it is sacred music, opera, pop, folk, country, jazz, soul, hip-hop, rap, or … Read More

Whitewashed limestone officers’ quarters at Fort McKavett State Historic Site, with a covered front porch, shuttered windows, a weathered wood-shingle roof, and two chimneys, beside a large live oak under a deep blue sky.

Close Quarters

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Lens-Artists Challenge #415: Move Your Body When Anne set this week’s challenge, I knew exactly what I wanted to show. However, because I was in Colorado until Monday, I waited until I got home to put this post together. Like … Read More

A small reed-covered island in a man-made lake at Murphy Park, Taylor, Texas, dotted with dozens of white egrets, with trees and a water tower behind it under a blue sky.

Room on the Island

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Lens-Artists Challenge #414: Looking Back at #44–Harmony This week Ann-Christine revisits the Lens-Artists Challenge #44: Harmony. She’s given us more freedom to explore harmony beyond the color-harmony concept. Please see her post and photos for her take on the topic. … Read More

A weathered wooden footbridge with slanted rails rises from a reddish dirt path into a dense canopy of juniper and oak, rendered with a soft, painterly, amber-toned effect. Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, Austin, Texas.

Bridges on Two Wheels

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #413: Bridges Those who read my posts regularly know how much I enjoy riding my bicycles. Whether on the gravel bike or the mountain bike, the breeze on my face and the scenery around me give me … Read More

Wide concrete emergency spillway of Canyon Dam under a clear blue sky, with the turquoise water of Canyon Lake and wooded Hill Country ridges beyond, framed by live oak and juniper branches.

A Canyon Born In Three Days

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Lens-Artists Challenge #412: Places Shaped by Water What are the odds of hiking through a canyon that is younger than you are? I don’t know how often that chance comes along, but in the Texas Hill Country it does. Canyon … Read More

Black-and-white scrapbook-style collage of five macro photographs — card slot contacts, a battery connector, a lens filter’s ridged edge, the nozzle of an air blower, and folded cleaning wipes — arranged at overlapping angles.

Everyday Objects, Uncommon Views

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Lens-Artists Challenge #411: What Is It? I took Sofia’s lead for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge and stayed very close to home. In her post, she wrote, “The only thing you need to do is find photos that will leave us … Read More

A three-panel collage from Big Bend Ranch State Park: a wide view of a sunlit rock outcrop under a streaked sky, a monochrome ocotillo against wind-blown clouds, and a close-up of a blooming Spanish Dagger.

One Photo, Two Edits

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Lens-Artists Challenge #410: One Photo Edited Looking Back at Lens-Artists Challenge #154 — One Photo Two Ways Sometimes, when I’m composing an image, I can’t be completely sure which way to go. Sometimes it’s whether the scene will be more … Read More

Bald cypress trees along the Frio River at Garner State Park, Texas, their reddish trunks lit by golden light and reflected in still green water.

Best Ever: Nineteen Years Behind the Lens

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Lens-Artists Challenge #409: Best Ever Images This week, our guest host for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is Steve Hyde, of Steve Hyde Photography Blog. Celebrating World Photography Day on August 19th, Steve thought this would be a perfect opportunity for … Read More

Collage of five photographs: a gilded Baroque church interior, three turquoise and silver necklaces, a private yacht docked in Venice, the front grille of a Rolls-Royce, and an ornate palace ballroom with crystal chandeliers.

Lens-Artists Challenge #408: Over the Top

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At one point or another, we all come across things that simply don’t fit our personal definition of regular and common. We look, pause, and say, “Whoa, that is over the top!” A common definition of over the top includes … Read More

The Romanesque façade of the Sé Velha (Old Cathedral) in Coimbra, Portugal, under a dramatic sky of dark storm clouds breaking to blue, with colorful parade floats and crowds gathered in the square below.

Burning with Tradition

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Lens-Artists Challenge #407: Celebrations Around the World This week Patti hosts our Lens-Artists Challenge with Celebrations Around the World. In her post, she writes: “Show us joyful, solemn, traditional, or avant-garde festivals, parades, feasts, holidays… to name a few.” Although … Read More

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