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Lens-Artists Challenge: Landmarks
Posted on October 26, 2026
This week’s challenge, set by the mighty Johnbo, is to post images of landmarks and/or monuments.
I suppose the real challenge here is to come up with something that doesn’t just looks like a record shot (‘been there, seen that’) or a tourist postcard.
Almost everyone will be familiar with the iconic Sydney Opera House, of course and naturally enough it was on our must-see list when we were on holiday in Australia a few years ago. Equally naturally, we went on a Harbour Cruise while we were there, and that was when I captured this image of the famous building framed by some of the boat’s rigging.
I think it adds some interest to an otherwise regulation photo.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Unexpected Vista
Posted on October 1, 2024
This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge is about finding beauty in unexpected places. Good one.
As the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder – in other words, a matter of personal taste, whatever the ‘rules’ say about the rule of thirds, the golden ratio or colour wheels..
This is actually the last photo I took in the month of September, so the ‘untouched’ version has been posted for Bushboy’s Last On The Card challenge here. It was taken in the nearby village of Rancon. It’s – obviously – an archway, although interestingly it’s completely free-standing and in fact the ground slopes away steeply about twenty feet beyond it.
What i failed to notice until I looked at it on the big screen of my desktop was the nicely framed vista that lay beyond, illuminated by the light of the ‘golden hour’. I wasn’t expecting that.
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