This week we welcome Dawn Miller of The Day After as the Lens-Artists guest host. Please visit her place and enjoy her guidance for this weeks challenge: Fences. In addition to her stunning photography, her blog teaches us of the landscape, seasons, history, and culture of the Shenandoah Valley, her home.
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
– William L. McKnight
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
– J. R. R. Tolkien
These are some of my favourite or spectcular fences found during my travels – and at home. In fact, we have a fence in our garden too – to save us from Milo running out in the street.
I love stone fences, they are very common here in Sweden, and they speak loud of hard work in the old days. Ireland showed us some of the broadest stone fences I have ever seen – impressive.
And one of the most beautiful and ”wild” graveyards I have walked was in England, Yorkshire, where members of the Bronte family are buried.
A big Thank you to Philo of Philosophy Through Photography for last weeks challenge, Simplicity. I think we all learned more about the power of simplicity in photography – and in life.
Next week we continue with our July “Month of Guest Hosts”. Be sure to visit our hosts each week as they explore the following topics:
- July 22 Dan Fenner of Departing in 5 Minutes will take us to UNBOUND
- July 29 Janet Webb of This That and The Other Thing will explore OVERLOOKED
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Leya 
I don’t know how I’ve missed this post, sorry! Beautiful fences, especially the ones with the wildflowers or woodland. I’m definitely in love with those.
Sofia, thank you! I surely have missed some as well – things happen!
Great various selections, AC! Love how you captured these and your perspectives. 🙂
Thank you, Amy!
Great selections and quotes Leya.
Thank you, John! Fun challenge!
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I love your choices, Ann-Christine! My favorites are the fence on top of that high viewpoint, and that wonderful photo of the picket fence that is mimicking the trees it is ”holding back.”
Thank you, John! The gallery contains some of my all time favourites.
I wondered about the lady on the fence too, Ann-Christine. And I like that snowy shot, which somehow looks inviting. An odd thought for me. The graveyard too!
Odd things are fun…The lady stands in Georgia!
Viveka loved it there!
We both did!
You have a lot in common.
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Oh, how flowers love fences too. They don’t seen to care if they are there or not, they just kind of dance together, as it should be. The cliffside fence must have stopped you in your tracks. The sculpture of the woman on the fence was fun. I love the creative art people think up. And the Bronte family sure knows how to show us how ”it’s” done. How I would love to walk along the stone staircase with rustic tree as its fence. Loved you gallery AC.
Thank you, Donna! Some of my all time favourites are there. Many lovely posts from this challenge!
I’m with Cee, these are marvelous Ann-Christine. That second image with all of those flowers is spectacular!
Thank you, Tina – a lovely challenge with so many beautiful and interesting posts!
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Marvelous fences of all different types. Wonderful post Ann-Christine 😀
Glad you liked it, Cee! It was an enjoyable challenge for many of us.
I definitely liked it 😀
I loved the mountainside one too but I think my favourite is the forget-me-not one.
I am glad you liked those ones, Susan! This was a lovely challenge!
Lovely fences – I especially like the first one 😀 And your shot from Haworth graveyard is so atmospheric!
Thank you, Sarah – a chance to see so many beautiful ones in this challenge!
Lovely selection.
Thank you, Rupali!
The first one is wonderful. What a fence, what a view! I think stone boundaries are walls, not fences, but I guess the purpose is the same.
Thanks, Jude! I tried the dictionary, and they suggested stone fence. But, it sounds better with wall – I agree!
Great variety, AC…in the first set I love 1,3 and 6 and then the Irish stone fences
Thank you, Sue!
My pleasure!
What a beautiful and unique collection.
Bravo!
Thank you so much, Dawn! Really Enjoyed the challenge.
Thank YOU!
Marvellous! I keep returning to the one top left in your first gallery. So characterful. I never think of fences as being in stone, but I suppose anything doing duty as a fence is – a fence. So thank you for this image too.
I am glad you liked them, Margaret! I know, I had to look at a dictionary for the word, because we don’t use ”staket”as a ”fence” in Swedish, we say ”gärde”. That would have been another word . Do you say stone wall or ?
Nice perspective down over a fence on a cliff. Without that fence the number of wildflowers might tempt me to creep too close for safety.
True…wisely put fence there🙂
I love the first four in that top set. They’re just glorious. I also love the two of the cemeteries. ❤
Thank you, Janet. The first fence on the flowery slope is one of my all time favourites .
Great examples, AC.
Love the fence with lovely line shadows and the one with lady relaxing on the fence.
Stone fence is captivating!
Thank you for sharing!
So glad you liked it, mr Philo!
What a gorgeous and varied set you have here!
Thank you very much! A fun challenge where everybody sent lovely entries!
You’ve shown us a great assortment of fences Ann-Christine. They all show us different aspects of life. One of my favorites is the sculpture on the fence. And your opening images of old fences and beautiful floral colors were beautiful. Well done.
Thank you, Anne! I enjoyed this challenge. It gave me the opportunity to revisit some favourites.
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The opening fence overlooking looking into the valley is a great photo! Love the variety of fences, and I too am a big fan of stone fences. Where is the fence with the ”statue” on top of it?
Thank you so much, Frank! The statue fence is in Georgia – not the USA Georgia.
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