Tag: #CosPhoChal

Cosmic Photo Challenge: From the Ground Up

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

I figured I better take or find pictures where I am standing on the ground looking up.

This is what I came up with.

I’m on the trail looking up at a train. Eventually I will go down the trail a bit and then under the tunnel to get to the other side.
I am standing on a sidewalk looking up at some bougainvillea draping over the wall.
Here I am standing on a trail looking up at some mountains.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shooting Through

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

I have a few photos from the past that have stayed in my memory.

All of these were taken within the last year.

Shooting through a bridge needing repair to the stream below
Shooting through a new electrical pole before it is completely assembled
Shooting through a window and drapes to a sunset

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Ground Beneath Your Feet

Dale offers the prompt “the ground beneath your feet” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The ground looks different depending where I am.

For variety I picked four different views of the ground that I’ve walked on over the past few years.

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On a trail with stone boundaries
On a beach
On a fancy walkway
On drying clay ground

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Coast

Dale offers “coast” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Although I am not near a coast at the moment, I have been in the past.

Here are some memories of coasts.

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Beach, clouds, wind
Wind, water and people enjoying it
A critter on the sandy shore just before a wave brought him happily back into the ocean

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
Moee stuff…
It is amazing how much stuff there is.

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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Here is the original.
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.