#CosPhoChal – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Close Up

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

I should have a lot of these, but where?

Ah, I found some although taken some time ago. I am also posting this early since I will be traveling on Monday.

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Stuff the waves brought to the beach in Florida

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shadows

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

Although there are shadows everywhere they kept evading me when looking for some photos that might work for this prompt.

Here are some photos taken in Florida some months ago.

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Shadows made by a light on a wall separating a residence from the park I was standing in.

During sunset the railing and the wall are in the shadows.

This is a fallen palm leaf. Between the dark top and the lighter bottom is a shadow.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Distortion Using Contrast and Cropping

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

I use the GIMP photo editor. It’s a free tool with many features I have not explored. I mainly use it to shrink the size of the image and rotate it a bit if I got the horizon wrong.

Here I am going to use the contrast feature of the editor along with cropping.

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I figured I could add contrast. I did and then brightened it a bit because it got pretty dark. It gets spookier the darker it gets.

I cropped the original, but this doesn’t distort it very much.

So I added enough contrast to make it spooky.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature In Black And White

Dale offers the prompt “nature in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I picked some photos that had little color in them but black and white.

I was going to remove the color, but then I would have to learn a new trick with the photo editor.

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Full moon, black space. That is about as sharp of an image as I could get with my phone.

Whatever this is, I found it on a forest trail. I think it is seeds expelled from a pod.

I think it’s alive and hanging onto this plastered wall.

Full moon with clouds in the sky. I took this the same evening I took the first photo.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: What’s Flowering?

Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

None of these are wild flowers since someone had to plant them.

I am glad they/we did.

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There are white and yellow flowers in our garden.

On the way to his garden there are magnolia trees with white blossoms.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: At the End of the Day

Dale offers the prompt “at the end of the day” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The following are various sunsets.

They were taken over the past few months.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking For Shade

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

I went under a shady tunnel a few days ago.

It was kind of spooky, but I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

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It looks like there is shade in this tunnel under the road.

Rather colorful. I guess the kids (hopefully not the adults) have been busy.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry

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

One of the places where I watched sunsets in southern Florida has a shiny wall blocking a residence from the park.

If I stood near the wall I could see the setting sun. This allowed me to put two sunsets in the photo.

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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.