The Lens-Artists Challenges
To fill the void created with the end of the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, four photographers — Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, and Amy — started the Lens-Artists Challenge in 2018. The first challenge appeared on July 7 of that year.
The Lens-Artists team is a group of photographers from around the globe. We are dedicated to photography, both as an art and for fun. Weekly challenges appear on Saturdays at 12:00 noon EST (or UTC -05:00).
We encourage viewers to participate in our Lens-Artists Challenges, and it’s not difficult to do so. Each week, a team member posts a challenge. Viewers and followers can then respond with their challenge post, linking to the team member’s post and using the Lens-Artists tag. The original challenge and responses appear in the Lens-Artists section of the WordPress Reader. Leave a comment on the host’s original challenge post, and make sure to use the hashtag #lens-artists. We look forward to your joining our challenges.
The best way not to miss any posts from the Lens-Artists team is to follow each person’s blog directly. Here are the links to the current members’ websites:
- Tina of https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com
- Patti of https://pilotfishblog.com
- Ann-Christine of https://lagottocattleya.com (aka Leya)
- John of https://photobyjohnbo.wordpress.com
- Anne of https://annegeephoto.com (aka Slow Shutter Speed)
- Sofia of https://photographias.wordpress.com
- Egídio of Through Brazilian Eyes
- Ritva of https://sillarit.com (aka Ritva Sillanmäki Photography)
- Beth of Wandering Dawgs
I thank the Lens-Artists team for inviting me to join them starting January 2024. I also thank Tina, John, and Anne for their assistance in editing this page’s information.
My Recent Lens-Artists Posts
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Best Ever: Nineteen Years Behind the Lens
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…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #408: Over the Top
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…
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Burning with Tradition
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…
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Summer Daze, Mountain Mornings
Lens-Artists Challenge #406: Summer Daze Anne sets up this week‘s Lens-Artists Challenge with a fact the whole country (and the world?) seems to be experiencing. She wrote, “My goodness it’s triple digits Fahrenheit… Heat waves come and go during the…
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Aleijadinho’s Masterwork — A Pilgrimage to Congonhas
Lens-Artists Challenge #405: Adventures Welcome back from the Lens-Artists short break! This week, Ann-Christine has asked us to share adventures we have experienced “from long ago or lately.” I wholeheartedly agree with her that “every day is an adventure.” Take…
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Berlandier’s Beguiling Blooms
Lens-Artists Challenge #404: Subjects that begin with the letter B When Beth issued this week’s photo challenge, I went looking for a single subject that could carry the letter B. “Let’s have a little fun and feature subjects that begin with…
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Perspective, Depth, and Scale at the Santuário São Francisco de Assis
Lens-Artists Challenge #403: Tools of Photo Composition: Perspective, Depth, and Scale This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge is hosted by John. He continues his series of compositional tools in photography. Specifically, he wants us to focus our attention on the “tools that…
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One Hour, A World Apart
Lens-Artists Challenge #402: Looking Back at #1 – Wonder Most mornings, I meditate on the deck facing the pond behind our house. It’s become a quiet anchor to the day — the water, the light shifting through the trees, whatever…
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Guided by the Frame: Compositional Tools in Fortaleza
Lens-Artists Challenge #401: Focus on the Subject with These Essential Tips A photograph is more than the sum of its subject. The best images are built and constructed with intention before the shutter is ever pressed. As my followers are…
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If Two Is Company, Is Three Perfection?
Lens-Artists Challenge #400: Rule of Three Photography has so many rules that anyone trying to learn composition can feel overwhelmed. Others simply trust their intuition. This week, Tina covers a rule that not many people may have heard of: the…
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