Ready… set…
Catch!
Run!
… favorite toy, favorite game, favorite dog… This is my response to Cee’s Fun Foto challenge: Kids Or Pets With Toys.
fall
Transition
robust vibrant life, animated, growing, strong, one day yields to death, withering in transition to be faithfully reborn. copyright ©2015 Terry Boswell
My response to The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Transition.
Late Blooms
stem stretches upward trichome bristles glisten white soft petals quiver turning to bask in the sun surprised by fall's arrival copyright ©2015 Terry Boswell
This is my response to Jennifer Nichole Well’s One Word Photo Challenge: Aperture.
Orange and Green
Autumn chills the air arriving gray and rainy green yields bright orange copyright ©2015 Terry boswell
This piece of crystalline glaze porcelain pottery was made by my son Andrew Boswell. To purchase this one-of-a-kind vessel, click the image below and visit www.bostree.com. This is another website of mine; the website of the family gallery that I manage in Sugar Loaf, NY.
I’ve just begun to develop an online shopping cart. Take a look and let me know what you think 🙂
You can find more of my orange and green themed images below. Click an image to begin a slide show.
This is my response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange and Green.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Orange.”
One Word Photo Challenge: Marsala
This is a vineyard in Taurasi, Italy, a village where one of my great-grandparents was born, in the province of Avellino.
I took the photo on a drizzly day in November of 2009. The grape leaves had turned color for the fall, all shades of Marsala; perfect for this photo challenge!
While I was sharpening the image a bit and viewing it at full size, I discovered, to my surprise, that I had caught a little dog in the shot! Perhaps you can still find him even though I have reduced the size of the photo for the internet…
It could be like a “Where’s Waldo” activity 🙂
Thank you Jennifer for this One Word Photo Challenge: Marsala.
Photography 101: A Pop of Color
I couldn’t resist using this image for day eleven of Photography 101. The theme is A Pop of Color.
“Today, use one color to add life or drama to your shot.”
I took this photo before the theme was announced, but this pop of color is exactly what prompted me to pull the car over, get out, and take a photo this past Friday. When today’s theme was announced, I thought, “Perfect! Those leaves are YELLOW and I’m golden!” 🙂
Here are two versions of the same shot, one cropped more than the other. I think the second version features the yellow ginkgo leaves more prominently because it cuts some compositional clutter from the right of the photo. The first photo, however, showing more context, is more descriptive of Sugar Loaf, NY.
Which image do you prefer?
The Candle Shop, pictured above, has been a part of the Sugar Loaf community for over forty years. The hamlet is composed of a number of artists and craftspeople, galleries and shops, a few restaurants, firehouse, post office, an arts center and a performing arts center.
Our studio and small gallery/shop have been located in the hamlet for thirty-two years. I hesitate to put the link because I need to work on the website, but there you go. 🙂
Happy Halloween!
I had some fun carving these pumpkins last night. Tonight I’ll put them out on the front porch, all aglow and halloweeny, and hope for some trick-or-treaters. To pass the time while I wait, I’ll indulge in my yearly Halloween ritual since childhood, watching It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! 🙂
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish PrayerMay Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future’s veil and show
What fate now holds for you.
~Author UnknownWhen black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween.
~Author UnknownHappy Halloween!
~Terry
Dreamy
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. ~Ruth E. Renkel
This post is my response to the photo challenge Dreamy. It’s also my belated response to the Blogging 101 assignment Try a New Posting Style. I decided to pair one of my photos with a quote. This isn’t stretching myself much, but it’s all I could muster these past several days to catch up a bit.
I wish I could have gotten out this weekend to photograph the fall foliage, but I was occupied working in our little gallery. It was quite busy because of a fall festival which ran Saturday, Sunday and the holiday Monday. It might have also been nice to stroll around town and photograph the crowd. The festival-goers and leaf-peepers were out, but sadly I was not. With my eyes wandering out the window and my mind drifting to fall color and this weeks photo challenge, I remembered this dance of light and shadow that I captured a couple of years ago. It was a fantastically bright day, rich with contrast. Standing in the shadows of the forest looking into the light, the landscape seemed a bit surreal and dreamy.
… And since this is the second time I have responded to the weekly photo challenge, I think I’ll make it a habit thereby completing another Blogging 101 assignment, Create a New Regular Feature. 🙂
I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Through the Lens of my Life 