Wordless Wednesday

26 augusti, 202624 augusti, 2026 / Leya / 2 kommentarer

Lens-Artists Challenge #154/410 – One Photo Edited

25 augusti, 202624 augusti, 2026 / Leya / 13 kommentarer

Lens-Artists Challenge #154 / 410 – One Photo Edited

Just like Ritva, I love editing – and this time I had some extra help…Please visit Ritva’s inspirational site for more different edits! Thank you, Ritva, for a great challenge – I hope you won’t mind some tweaking for my granddaughter…

I have chosen pictures from my Africa gallery, and I can assure you, I had some lovely hours editing! The first picture features one of all the icredibly beautiful skies in Zimbabwe, seen from the Zambesi river.

All the original pictures are on the left side, and the extra edited ones are on the right side. Usually, I enhance the light if needed, sometimes a light saturation, and sometimes a crop if the main object sits in the ”wrong” place. Here I felt free to use some more tricks for Ritva’s interesting challenge.

In this photo, I wanted to get back the warm, golden light before the sunset was complete. (I missed out on that one, so, in fact I saw both these sights, within a short amount of time. Each beautiful in its own way.

The above picture was taken from the easternmost part of Victoria Falls, on the border to Zambia. I fell in love with the little hut sitting just on the precipice – but had difficulties in showing the sight I saw inside my head and the feeling I had of Nature Magic. In the end I resorted to AI, which produced a kind of fantasy picture the looks of JRR Tolkien’s trilogy of the Ring – Rivendell. This result failed me in my own tries.

In this indoor picture from our ”tent” at the camp in South Africa, I loved all the creases and the soft, golden light – but also saw a potential winter’s tale from Sweden. Taking down the highlight, I was still not happy with the window look, so I darkened the picture some, and found a Lightroom preset that both intensified the creases, and made a snowy-like look through the window. This might as well have been a winter stay up north in Sweden.

Often the bush would surprise us with a long neck suddenly peeping up over the trees. I found those moments hilarious, and thought I would make this shot a bit more movie – like. I found a Lightroom preset that fit my inner image, darkening the background and enhancing the giraffe almost into a comic strip figure.

Back to a short real life feeling again! Like many of us, I love water drops, and they often look amazing converted into B&W. Here done with Nik collection.

As my granddaughter of 4 1/2 was here today, and she is in a dragon-and-unicorn phase right now, I might have guessed her answer to my question about what more I should do with this picture … Of course a Dragon is the answer to everything!

Last week we featured a guest host, Steve Hyde (of Steve Hyde Photography Blog) and he provided us with a wonderful, but difficult, challenge. We loved all the fantastic, Best Ever Photos you shared!

Sofia will return next week, so we will see what she has in store for us. Tune in to find out more about the challenge then.

Until then, please stay curious, positive and kind.

You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Beth. Ritva,

For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.

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Thursday Thoughts – RAF, Red, Red, Red!

20 augusti, 202619 augusti, 2026 / Leya / 7 kommentarer

The airport in Kangelussuaq had some interesting guests the day we happened to be there –

The Red Arrows, based in RAF Waddington and on their way to the USA for the 4th July celebrations.

We met some lovely gentlemen, as Englishmen usually are, and really nice young guys from the crew. I was granted a photo after a chat with this young man.

Nine BAE systems Hawk T1 for their Diamond Nine formation. Although I only caught seven of them…They have performed over 4800 displays in 57 countries worldwide. Their Motto is: Éclat, French for ”brilliance” or ”excellence”. The aerobatic team celebrated their 60th Diamond Season in 2024.

I would have loved to see them in action!

Wordless Wednesday

19 augusti, 202618 augusti, 2026 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

Lens-Artists…Best ever

18 augusti, 2026 / Leya / 46 kommentarer

A massive thank you to Steve for guest hosting the Lens-Artists Challenge this week. Please visit Steve’s brilliant site where you can find his best ever photos and so much more. I find his photography both unique and impressive, and extremely inspiring. We look forward to seeing your choices. Please remember to link to Steve’s original here and to use the Lens-Artists Tag to help us find you.

Well, I honestly cannot choose ”best ever” photos from my own archives, so I guess if you asked me next month, they would not be the same. The best I can do (!) is to choose some of my own favourites that I love, and try to tell you why. I am a very emotional person, so, first of all they must touch my heart.

Easy criteria would be prize-winning photos – as this one. But, this is the only picture that I have ever entered into a competition – and in fact – won. It was about very special trees in our life, and this old beech tree that stands in ”my forest” was not already in the book of trees. So, I was the one who filed it in the national site for old trees. I walk past it often and I report if anything has happened to it – like a storm making old branches fall. I do love it.

About the photo: Autumn is the most beautiful time up here, and as this beech is very big, I could see the smaller trees behind it from an interesting angle. Irresistible opportunity.

This caravan spotted in Morocco several years ago was exotic to me at that moment, but what more makes the photo one of my favourites are the lovely memories of that trip and everything about it. The food, the people, the desert itself and its animals.

About the photo: Sheer luck to be in the right place at the right time. This also goes for the next one.

How can I not choose this big yawn? I love cheetahs and had the camera ready when this happened – not a perfect shot, but such a beautiful animal and a fun surprise!

Greenland offered an abundance of spectacular moments and I came back with thousands of photos. The midnight sun among the icebergs was an unforgettable experience, and picking only one photo has been almost impossible. Finally I decided for this special iceberg, not because it is the best photo, but because it took me awhile to figure out that the brownish part on top of the ice must come from a frozen kayak that probably once was lost on the glacier. When? Amazing.

About the photo: I had seen this iceberg when we headed out in the late evening, and kept thinking about it the whole trip. Finally I took some photos because of its mysterious and intriguing history.

Finally, posted a couple of times – but still a favourite – is this family in Bhutan, sitting on the stone wall, looking at a cell phone. I am not sure who is the most fascinated one here, but clearly the thing was not new to them.

About the photo: I seldom take photos of people, but this family was so preoccupied by the phone, that I clicked without asking…

Last week, Egídio asked us for over-the-top photos, and I loved them all. It was great to see such variety and thinking outside the box. We hope you’ll join us next week when Ritva leads us once again. Until then, as always please stay safe, be kind and enjoy the adventure.