The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of September 30, 2016. For this challenge, show us what nostalgia means to you — perhaps a moment or scene that makes you feel wistful, happy, sad, or somehow longing for the past. It might be with friends, family, or by yourself — anywhere, anytime of year. The Academy of Sciences has changed quite a lot […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Light Greens. You can show photos you have taken of Spring with its bright green leaves, light pastel greens to neon green and lime.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Purples. This week the color is purples. Any shade of purple is allowed in this challenge. So show me your new photos of purple or some of your old favorite photos which are purple. Have tons of fun with this challenge this week.
I had already spent most of afternoon wandering through the San Francisco Botanical Garden, taking pictures of nearly everything I saw. When I noticed the sign saying ‘Garden of Fragrance,’ I was tempted to pass it by — “Oh, it’s just a bunch of flowers.” Don’t get me wrong! I like flowers, and I can even tell you the names of a […]
Update: Below I referred to the bridge as the ‘Moon Bridge’; but according to San Francisco Parks, it’s actually called the Drum Bridge. The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of September 9, 2016. This week, share your own interpretation of “edge.” Take a photo from an actual edge, like a balcony, a window, or a seaside bluff (wherever […]
I noticed these wonderful flowers in San Francisco’s Botanical Garden, in the area known as the Exhibition Garden. They are a rare variety of abutilon, sometimes called Flowering Maple. It’s very easy to see why they’re called Temple Bells. I was fascinated by their brilliant colors and the appearance of the red veins. Apparently other varieties of the abutilon are saucer […]
Back in the mid 1980s I took this picture of San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. It’s still one of my favorites, but this week I decided to play around with a couple of different photo-editing programs and see if I could improve the shot. Original: Black and white (Aviary) San Carmen (Aviary) High saturation (Aviary) Cloud effects/Daguerreotype frame (PicMonkey) Sepia […]