#CosPhoChal – Page 2 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Festivals, Fairs and Carnivals

Dale offers the prompt “festivals/fairs/carnivals” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

On July 4th of this year the United States celebrated its 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Here are some of the fireworks set off by people in the cul-de-sac right outside our townhome.

Getting some of the trees with the fireworks

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Movement

Dale offer the prompt “movement” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These were taken over the past few months.

There’s a boat.

There are rain drops.

And there are fireworks.

A boat in motion along the Intracoastal Waterway

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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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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A critter on the sandy shore just before a wave brought him happily back into the ocean

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Art of House Plants

Dale offers the art of house plants as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

We have a few house plants.

So, I took some photos of them.

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Putting the plants to use as places to hang decorations

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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