#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Under The Canopy

Dale offers the prompt “under the canopy” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I wonder if palm trees form a canopy. They do block the sun.

Or awnings?

Or clouds?

The red part is a covering (canopy), but above it is a beautiful, cloudy sky.

A big bird minding his own business under a bush canopy.

It’s amazing what you can see under a canopy of trees.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Where we are at the moment there are plenty of opportunities to see sunsets and water. This is inland water, not the ocean, but there’s an ocean nearby.

I might not show any of those photos. Today it is art for art’s sake.

I can’t remember what this was. I do recall my phone telling me to clean the lens. (The lens was dirty.)

This is a fallen palm leaf waiting to be picked up. There’s a bit of water in it on the right.

Here’s a sunset that looks to my like art for arts sake

Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East and West

Dale offers the prompt “North, South, East and West” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The photos “don’t all have to be taken from the same spot, or even on the same day”.

Here are some over many years and different places.

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NORTH: Vltava River in Prague from the Charles Bridge

SOUTH: Vltava River in Prague on the Charles Bridge

EAST: St Augustine, Florida, at the old fort facing a harbor leading to the Atlantic Ocean

WEST: Sunset seen from Miami Beach, Florida

Cosmic Photo Challenge: How Does My Garden Grow

Dale offers the prompt “how does my garden grow” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I don’t have a garden, but my neighbors do. Here are some photos from theirs over the years.

A lot of yellow and a little blue trying to get through

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Focal Point

Dale offers this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge to present photos “that lead the eye to a specific place or object”.

To get this effect I think one needs one or more starting points and then an ending point (which might be the starting point through various intermediate points).

I found four photos that I think do this.

This is a wall with missing plaster. Start anywhere along the broken plaster. The final focus is the top of the broken plaster, at least, as I see the picture.

The initial focus is on the dark open doorway with the sun’s light on the walls of the building. The lines of the railing and buildings finally focus my eyes on the trees to the right in the distance which as living objects contrast with the buildings occupying most of the photo.

The curve of the white lights and the curve of the waves made by the boat keep my eyes moving in a curved fashion across this photo. The final focus is the horizon to the right.

The focus here is circular starting with the sun then the silhouette of the people then the white wall to the left and then back through the buildings at the horizon to the sun again. My focus finally rests on the people. Since these three people are together various stories start coming to my mind about them.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Over the Bridge

Dale offers the prompt “over the bridge” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I am not sure if these are all bridges, but there is water, water everywhere.

Here they go!

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I am not sure if this is a bridge or just a protective railing so one doesn’t accidentally fall into the water.

If you have a boat, you would know what to do with this bridge. I am usually stopped at the door.

I’m on a bridge separating two islands. This boat is leaving the Atlantic Ocean and heading for the safer intracoastal waterway.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A River Runs Through It

Dale offers the prompt “a river runs through it” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

All of these photos are from many years ago. They show a river running though the Forest Preserve in northeastern Illinois near where we used to live.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge: The First Day Of Spring

Dale offers “the first day of spring” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I ran into some technical details moving photos from my phone to my computer. These are from a few days earlier than the first day of spring.

I tried taking some closeups of the sun as it was setting.

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The sun is behind the building under construction

Hmm. All the orange reminds me of a pumpkin

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking Up

Dale offers the prompt “looking up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

As it turns out recently there was a total eclipse of the moon. The only problem was it would occur about 5 am. So I set the alarm. The next problem I had not anticipated was clouds, but even the clouds cooperated enough. Then I wondered if my phone could get clear enough images.

Anyway, here are the best of the lot including one from the moonrise a few hours earlier.

Moonrise, but after the moon rose high enough to get past the clouds on the horizon

Early morning. The moon is full, but the sun is casting the earth’s shadow on it.

The clouds are coming in and soon blocked the moon, but I did get a chance to get a near fully eclipsed moon before they did.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: First Signs Of Spring

Dale offers the prompt “first signs of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I can’t tell which season it is where I am now except by where the sun sets in the west.

Regardless what it is actually doing the sun keeps moving across the horizon back and forth throughout the year.

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