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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #129: Favorite Images of 2020

What a year it has been, this 2020! So happy to see it pass by and usher in a new year full of hope and expectations for better times ahead. My favorite photos of 2020 are not necessarily the best quality, as a photographer would judge them; they are simply reminders of moments we to […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #111: Everyday Objects

Patti, author of Pilot Fish Blog, offers this week’s topic for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #111:“Everyday Objects.” In her post, she throws out this challenge: “take another look at everyday objects and see them from a different perspective.” Even though we’ve been home, inside and isolated, pretty much the whole time of the COVID quarantine since […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 107: Winter

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov Since we’re not accustomed to dealing with harsh winters — after all, we live in the South — we find cold weather (especially if snow is involved) to be novel enough to make us happy. Our contributions to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge […]

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Lens-Artists Challenge 106: Autumn

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. Henry David Thoreau Autumn truly is my favorite time of year — cooler temperature, luscious colors, and activities related to going back to school, hiking, and taking long drives in the country. Life truly does begin again in the fall. I would rather […]

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Lens-Artists Challenge 105: Spring

Knoxville is the ugliest city I ever saw in America, with the possible exception of some mill towns in New England. John Gunther, 1947 With that caustic statement (actually a blessing in disguise), Knoxville took note. We Knoxvillians had a pretty city then, but we have an even prettier city now. And to top it […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 104: Summer

Just the smell of summer can make me fall in love. Anonymous Perhaps it’s that old song that begins “Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime . . . ” or the smell of lake water, inner tubes, and homemade ice cream — summer makes most people fall in love. And this summer, even in the midst […]

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Old and New: Lens-Artists Challenge #99

Nothing attracts attention like a red dress. Laura Bush With a challenge from Amy (The World Is a Book) to post juxtapositions of old and new, we were reminded of our day touring Angkor Wat near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Unexpectedly to us, a number of visitors had arrived onsite with the express purpose of having […]

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Lens-Artists Challenge #98: Delicate Colors at Sundown

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. Stephen King Although we drive across country each summer to enjoy the beach at Pawleys Island, South Carolina, we’ve also fallen in love with the beauty of the creek at Pawleys. Lying parallel to the ocean, the creek offers a different sight […]

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Lens-Artists Challenge #90 – Keeping the Distance in Knoxville

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh Challenging us this week with the theme of distance, Tina planted the idea of looking more closely at social distancing in Knoxville just as we were contemplating a drive around […]

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