Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

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

Here are a few photos that might fit the prompt.

Think of them as paintings made by the waves with stuff left on the sandy shore.

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Stuff the waves left on the beach
More stuff the waves left on the beath
It is amazing what you will find on the beach.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Halloween

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

We don’t celebrate Halloween anymore. Long ago, we used to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating with our young children. But that was long ago.

Although I don’t have any Halloween images, I do have some fall photos to share.

Forest Preserve in northeastern Illinois looking north
Forest Preserve in northeastern Illinois looking south
Forest preserve in northeaster Illinois

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Autumn Color

Dale offers the prompt “autumn color” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Prompt.

These are photos of the forest preserve in northern Illinois when we used to live there a few years ago.

Where I am now in the Carolinas, the trees haven’t started changing yet.

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Autumn: Northern Illinois
Desplaines River: Northbrook, Illinois
Forest Preserve: Northern Illinois

Cosmic Photo Challenge: From An Unusual Perspective

Dale offers the prompt “from an unusual perspective” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The unusual perspective I used is getting so close to the object that I tend to forget just what it was originally.

This is a dip for breads and other food seen up close
This is a very small part of a large fence around a park.
The yellow object to the bottom right (I think) is an egg and all of it is in a fancy bowl with flowers as decorations. You can see the shadow of my phone taking the picture.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: My One Weakness

Dale offers the prompt “my one weakness is…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

In my case, one of my weaknesses is to take photos of water during sunrises or sunsets. Others may like to sit on the shore or go into the water during the day. I can’t think of a good reason to do either of those two things.

Here are some examples.

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I especially like sunrises with birds
If there are no birds, a boat or buildings will do.
Clouds are also welcome.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

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

Here are photos from all four seasons over various years.

Also in many different places.

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Summer: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Fall: View of Lake Michigan from Lake Bluff, Illinois
Winter: Northbrook, Illinois
Spring: Somewhere or Most Anywhere

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shades of Gray

Dale offers the prompt “shades of gray” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Beach sand without too much debris is mostly shades of gray.

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One of my poems, Light and Dark, was published today in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Mostly shades of gray
Birds
I don’t know how this happened

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Ferns and Fungi

Dale offers the prompt “ferns and fungi” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Also, today, one of my poems, “Library”, has appeared in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Mushrooms
Along the trail by the old golf course
And a bunch more of them

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Off the Beaten Track

Dale offers the prompt “off the beaten track” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Although there is likely a paved bikeway nearby in Florida you could get off that beaten track to walk on the sands of the ocean shore for many miles.

However, it is not as easy to walk on the shifting, unbeaten down sand as it is to walk on the bike trail. You do get to see all kinds of things the waves wash to shore.

More stuff washed upon the unbeatened down track
More stuff littering the track (or shore)
To the left footprints try to beat down the track; to the right waves keep the track unbeaten down.