Dale offers the prompt “as the nights draw in” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.



Dale offers the prompt “as the nights draw in” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.



Dale offers the prompt “one thing inside another” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
In the first photo there are tiny plants growing inside the space between the rocks.
In the second, there’s a heart inside this huge palm branch, if you can see it.
In the third, there are three (oops, make that four) tiny birds inside this sunrise.



Dale offers the prompt “up, down and sideways” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I first thought of taking a picture of a tree, but I have already done something like that.
I ended up going up and down the stairway.



Dale offers the prompt “life in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I took some pictures along the Shady Hollow Trail while at the McDowell Nature Preserve which is about a fifteen minute drive from where we live.
After converting them to black and white I added a lot of contrast and lowered the brightness to help the black stand out from the white.


Dale offers the prompt “over the hills and far away” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo is of the mountain range on the eastern side of the United State. It is a view from the Blue Ridge Parkway somewhere in North Carolina.
The second photo is of the mountain range on the western side. It was taken from a park in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


Dale offers the prompt “as summer fades” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.


Dale offers the prompt “in the evening” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Although they are after sunset, they are not long after sunset as the full moon is just beginning to rise in the sky in the East.


Dale offers the prompt “in motion” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The first thing I thought of were birds.



Dale offers the prompt “low elevation” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I took these many years ago when I tried to see the world the way a pigeon might walking on the street.
I probably looked silly taking these photos.



Dale offers the prompt “the sky’s the limit” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These were taken over the Atlantic Ocean.
I thought the first photo had a great sunset with the swirling yellow light. Then the wind blew some clouds in turning that sunset into an even greater one below it.

