Dale offers the theme of “north, south, east, west” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
For the north I chose a photo from Lake Bluff, Illinois, showing a view of Lake Michigan from the top of the bluff.
For the south there are birds over a beach during a sunrise on Miami Beach, Florida.
For the east there is a sand turtle on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
For the west there is a deep red trail in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dale offers the prompt “summer collage” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Dale offers the theme “from the ground up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo shows a shell on a very smooth beach with very fine sand. That is the ground.
The second photo moves back off the beach to the trail. I raise my eyes and there are clouds. That is the up part.
Dale offers the theme “birds and bees and bugs and fleas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo is of a bug. The second is also a bug, also known as a grasshopper. The third is a photo of many birds.
Dale offers the theme “a summer walk in the sunshine” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These were taken on walks through the forest preserves in northeastern Illinois.
In the first photo there’s an understory of small maples that the photo didn’t emphasize as much as my memory does. In the last photo I was amazed by the shadows cast of those particular leaves.
Dale offers the theme “focusing on composition” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I see composition as a harmony between overall elements although I am not sure what it is.
In the first photo there is the curve of the hill contrasting with the tall trees. In the second there is the circle of the gate focusing attention on the leaf, brick wall and light from the shaded window. In the last photo there are horizonal lines made by clouds, water and sky to provide the harmony.
Dale offers the prompt “indoor freestyle” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We are in the process of moving from our Illinois home. Here are memories of the inside of it.
Dale offers the prompt “nature in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I forgot how to take a colored photo and completely drain all the color from it, but then I realized I had pictures that naturally looked black and white without any modification.
So here are two photos of sand on beaches around Miami Beach. Hopefully they look black and white enough and the man-made beaches look natural enough to count.
Dale offers the theme “night and day” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo is of a full moon, a sign of nighttime in Florida.
The second photo is a sunrise over the Atlantic ocean, a sign that the day is upon us.
Dale offers the theme “close up on nature” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These photos are about as close as I wanted to get to these guys.
The last photo was a close up and focusing on rain drops against a window.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 