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Trees In Winter

Whenever I go out, and especially during the dreary winter months, I am always on the lookout for trees to photograph. There's never an end to the different lines and shapes that trees have to offer. Sure, summer trees are full of great foliage, but that same beauty muddies up

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Week 52 - Do Over

365 Days - 52 Weeks. At last we have arrived at the final week of 2022's Weekly Photo Challenge. Looking back over the year, there's been some great images created, and some that were not exactly my favorites. The point of the challenge though was not to create the absolute

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Week 47 - Wabi-Sabi

For this week's photo challenge, I was supposed to think a little differently, and find beauty in an imperfect subject. Wabi-Sabi is from the Japanese and Buddhist teachings to learn to appreciate things that are not perfect, and that imperfection is not something bad or wrong, but can be beautiful.

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BKB Brews For Bitties - Nov. 2022

Tonight was the Bitty Kitty Brigade's 3rd annual Brews For Bitties at Forgotten Star Brewing. The Bitty Kitty Brigade is a foster-based rescue for orphaned neonatal kittens in the Twin Cities, MN and surrounding areas. It's the rescue that both Elara and Ersa are adopted from, and that I now

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Week 45 - Street Photography

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Week 42 - Black & White Minimalism

Black and White + Minimalism are two of my favorite things to photograph, so you would think I would be super excited to tackle the challenge this week. However, it's the middle of October in the Northern Hemisphere, which means we're in the thick of autumn foliage season. And while the

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Week 38 - One Light Source

For the photo challenge this week, I wanted to do something simple yet impactful. Of course, I wanted to have it be somewhat arty as well. Mission Accomplished! It did take a few tries to get it as I wanted, with the shadows. I love the result, though!

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Week 28 - Silhouette

After first learning of the challenge for this week, I immediately thought of doing some intricate studio lighting setup in my studio to get the perfect studio silhouette... of something. Still life? One of the cats? A human subject, perhaps? Then when it came time to execute, two things happened:

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Week 27 - Negative Space in Street Photography

For this week, I was really hoping to get out and find some people to get some good black and white street photography. Despite being an introvert by nature, I do love this type of photography. Luckily, one of the local farmer's markets was open, so we headed over for

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Week 26 - A Pattern

Patterns are everywhere you look - from all the man-made patterns in all the things we own, to the numerous patterns found all throughout nature. Intentional design is abundant, so this week's photo wasn't difficult at all to capture. I had actually noticed these shadows being cast on the deck

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Week 25 - What Is It?

As a macro photographer, I love capturing small details of small things, and it always makes for interesting images. Many times, the photos themselves offer an air of mystery as to what they are, and it's always fun to present them to other people to guess what they are. Mystery

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Week 21 - Inspired By A Photographer

As a creative artist, I have drawn inspiration from many places through the years - photography, paintings, music, and even inspirational people not in any art or entertainment creative field. Early on in my career, when I was learning about photography, I looked to those photographers that came before me

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More Leading Lines Lead to Somewhere

While out shooting the architecture for my previous post, I decided to keeping shooting things beyond the amphitheater that caught my attention that looked interesting. I edited a few of my favorites to share, which warranted a separate post of their own.

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Week 19 - Architecture

There's certainly no shortage of subject matter to photograph when it comes to architecture. There's man-made structures all over the place. The trick is to try and capture something that's not only interesting, but also tells a story - or leaves the viewer questioning the image, and wanting more. Not

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Week 17 - Leading Lines

The weather this week was downright dreadful. It also didn't help that I was highly unmotivated to complete something for the challenge this week. Fear not though, because I did rally... on the final day of the assignment... and went out in search of some leading lines. This staircase is

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The Sunset Trees

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Week 9 - Reflections

This week's challenge came at the perfect time of the year. The weather is getting warmer (slowly... and if you consider 35-40 degrees warm). I knew I wanted to take advantage of all the snow melting, leaving in its wake tons of puddles all over the place. Puddles are not

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Week 7 - Unexplored

Unless you're a worldly traveler with unlimited funds to go where ever you want, much of the world is unexplored to you. Heck, most people (at least until the last few decades) never really ventured far from home. They worked and played close to where they lived, never really going

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Week 5 - Black and White

One of the main reasons why I wanted to do a weekly photo assignment (or challenge, or whatever the cool kids call stuff now), as opposed to a daily photo project, was to not have as much stress over getting the perfect image. There's a week to get a great

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Week 4 - Minimalist

As a photographer (and artist), I sometimes see an image in my head that just won't go away. It lingers in my mind, taunting me at every opportunity. Sometimes it is an image that I think I really don't care enough about to take, or maybe I am just not

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Week 0 - Break the Rules

For 2022, I have decided to go back to doing a personal photo project. Not a 365 Project (like I did for quite a few consecutive years) but something a bit more lax. I don't want to feel constantly pressured to create something daily, even if I am not feeling