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Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photography1 Comment

Hello and a happy new year to you all, welcome to the first Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt of 2026.

In what is becoming another annual tradition of sorts, we’ll begin with; A cold start.

As ever, you may apply that theme to the start of the day, the year or whatever other timeframe you wish, although here in the UK it applies pretty much all the time at the moment.

So get out there in the overly fresh air, capture some chilly scenes to kick off another year of happy snapping and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the final days of freedom before the return to work.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The best of the rest.

On By dalecooper57In photography13 Comments

Hello, welcome to the very last Cosmic Photo Challenge of 2025, where we are rounding up; The best of the rest.

This is an exercise in sweeping up the shots which might not have qualified for any of this year’s challenges, but which you think are worth sharing, nonetheless.

So here, in no particular order, are a few images which, for one reason or another, caught my eye this year.

I wish you all the most prosperous, healthy and happy new year, but for now let’s see your hidden treasures…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Hello there, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and none of you are feeling too fragile this morning, because it’s time for the final Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt of 2025.

As is traditional, this week we’re rounding off the year by showcasing any shots which might not have made it into a specific challenge, but you’d like to share anyway; The best of the rest.

So you have complete control for Monday’s post, let’s see the pictures you didn’t get a chance to show us in the last 12 months. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on the other side.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: A winter’s walk.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography11 Comments

Hello and season’s greetings to you all from The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week gets out and about on; A winter’s walk.

Since I changed jobs last year, I haven’t been getting as much exercise, so I’ve recently started doing a daily two and a quarter mile hike around the country lanes on the very edge of Barnstaple. I’m fortunate enough that I have the countryside five minutes from my door, so a weekend walk was the perfect time to capture the chilly morning landscape.

Have a fantastic holiday, I’d like to wish you and all of your loved ones the very merriest of Christmases, I’ll see you for our end of year roundup next week.

Love, light and peace,
dalecooper57

Now let’s see if you found yourselves a winter wonderland…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photography1 Comment

Hello there, welcome to the penultimate prompt for 2025’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, I hope all your holiday preparations are going well.

Today we’re going to get in early with the new season (the solstice is on Sunday, after all) and capture some scenes whilst on; A winter’s walk.

Fingers crossed for some pleasant weather, enjoy the weekend, good luck with the Christmas shopping and I’ll see you all on Monday.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Lights, camera, Christmas!

On By dalecooper57In photography12 Comments

Good morning, welcome to the annual round up of festive illuminations on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, brought to you by the prompt; Lights, camera, Christmas!

I took a chilly, early evening stroll round Barnstaple town on Saturday to capture my yuletide sparkle-fest; with a couple of extra snaps I took whilst waiting to leave my road, hemmed in as I was by the local Round Table’s Santa sleigh.

Now let’s see what’s lighting up your world at the moment…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Good afternoon, happy Friday and hello from The Cosmic Photo Challenge, here to provide your weekend homework once more with this week’s prompt.

I suppose it’s time to give a nod to the festive season, so let’s see some images which illuminate the theme; Lights, camera, Christmas.

Have fun searching out some sparkly delights for Monday’s post and I’ll see you again soon.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Abstract.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, photography9 Comments

Hello there, it’s only two weeks until the holidays, but here at The Cosmic Photo Challenge we haven’t got festive yet, in fact we’re positively vague about the subject of today’s theme; Abstract.

That gave us almost unlimited scope for our photographic offerings this week and I spent a Zen-like couple of hours yesterday creating this abstract collage from strips I cropped from pictures of random objects around the house and other old photos.

Where did your artistic muse lead you this week..?

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Good evening, I hope you’re all keeping well, here’s your prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

This week we’re working on the principle that a photo doesn’t have to be of anything in particular, for it to nevertheless make a good picture.

With that in mind, for Monday’s post I’d like images which fit the theme; Abstract.

Imagine and interpret that however you so wish and I’ll see you all soon, have a great weekend.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Reflections.

On By dalecooper57In photography12 Comments

Good morning, I hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend and are reinvigorated for the week ahead, starting with The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Today, Thanksgiving weekend hangovers or not, we’re all seeing double, because the theme is; Reflections.

Saturday here was on and off (mostly) rain and short bursts of sunshine, one of which I managed to catch, taking advantage of the reflective power of puddles in the park and on the river.

All I did here was drain anything other than blue from the bottom half of the picture, showing how much colour is reflected from just wet stones

Now let’s see your mirror images, it’s so easy to take part…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.