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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #152: Shades and Shadows

All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. Leo Tolstoy Launching the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is Ann Christine inviting us to share shades and shadows. With two trips under our belts this year, we’re finding shadows that we didn’t even remember as we review our photos and note them […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #132: Striped

Every line tells its own story, even the very tentative ones. Gillian Redwood It’s been a striped world this past week with American flags waving in the wind at the Inauguration, so Leya’s interesting challenge is a welcome one: Striped and Checked. Although we don’t specifically search for stripes, we find patterns in architecture, lighting, […]

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Shadowplay: Castine, Maine

Drive in to the small historic town of Castine on the Penobscot Bay, and you’ll notice that this isn’t the typical Maine small town. Architecture varies from classic clapboard saltbox to stately homes with mansard roofs. All understandable, you see, since Castine, a town founded in 1613 by a French trader, served as the capital […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scary Treat at Houston’s MFA

It’s scary fun at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts — and a treat for all ages. Just head to Cullinan Hall where three enormous screens above the theatrical stage transform moving bodies into genuine monsters! Called Shadow Monsters, this interactive installation by British artist Philip Worthington lets ordinary non-scary folks like us watch as our […]