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.

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

Interested in knowing more about the Lens-Artists challenge? Click here for more