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Lens-Artists Challenge #280 – Last Chance

/ Leya / 63 kommentarer

Tina is hosting this last challenge of 2023. In 2022 the Lens-Artists team introduced a ”Last-Chance” challenge. The idea was to post some images that never quite fit any of our 2022 subjects. Here are some favourites of mine that will get a second chance.

I must have flowers, always, and always.
― Claude Monet

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.
― Caleb Crain

I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.

– Dodinsky

The breath of winter holds a hushed enchantment, a captivating stillness.

– Anna Islington

The soul is healed by being with children.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
― Albert Einstein

Special thanks to all of you who helped us feel the Magical season is here – as your responses clearly showed! For me, that was a truly magical week!

And now, as we approach the close of 2023, the Lens-Artists team has an important change to announce. After having been an integral part of our team since its inception in June of 2018, Amy of Share and Connect will be leaving the team to begin an exciting new adventure. She and her husband will be traveling more extensively and making some happily-anticipated visits with family. We wish her all the best and look forward to her posts as she continues to respond to our challenges whenever possible.  Often – we hope!

We are also announcing that this will be the final Lens-Artists challenge of 2023. We will return on January 6 to begin the New Year with our traditional Favorite Photos of 2023. We look forward to seeing you all again then. In the meanwhile we wish all who celebrate the happiest of holidays as well as a peaceful and joy-filled 2024. 

Lens-Artistists Challenge # 275 – Filling the Frame

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Anne is in the lead this week, and she has got a fabulous challenge in store for us – Filling the frame. Please visit her beautiful site for more inspiration.

Filling the frame offers a sense of completeness, clarity, inclusion, and comfort. We essentially “dive in” and experience the true essence of what the subject has to offer.

– Lucas Martin

So what does it mean – to fill the frame? Let’s see…

Prayer flags in Bhutan fill the frame in many respects – with cloth, letters and words.

Porto offers a staircase of sorts – it really fills up both us and the library/bookstore…

Filling the frame with a filled frame is hopefully allowed too? Beautiful stones of Georgia.

This random gallery of manmade and naturals ends with the rusty remains of a ship on a shore somewhere in Iceland. Filled with holes, but it still fills my frame. (Click to see the whole pictures)

Macro’s make us come really close, and leaves almost no empty space anywhere – maybe there is some truth in this quote from Robert Capa:

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.

Fernsfernsferns – they are irresistible! Even the back side of them…

And, this is key to why I love it when an abundance of small pieces fill the frame –

– like these Icelandic icicles. To me, maybe it is also a matter of colours. Few colours, all hues in harmony, make the frames complete – or what do you think? I left a monochrome in the header… for us to keep pondering – is this a filled frame – or not?

Finally, a fiery frame from our walks this weekend – Autumn filled it from ground to sky. Lucas Martin was right.

Thank you, Donna, for a marvelous asymmetry challenge last week. We’ve learned a lot and had a lot of fun, haven’t we! Next week James of Jazzibee will be our guest host, be sure to look for his site for inspiration! Remember to link to the original post and tag with Lens-Artists.

If you would like to participate weekly in our Lens-Artists Challenge, click here for more info.