The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Reflections.

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Hello there, time to start your week with a trip around the world in pictures on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week inspired by the prompt; Reflections.

With all the rain we’ve had recently, it wasn’t hard to find reflections (and some nice refraction, too) on a chilly walk around the park yesterday.

How was your weekend? Let’s have a look at your pictures, it really is very easy to join in…

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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.

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For this week’s theme on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I’d like you to consider; Reflections.

As ever, it’s entirely up to your creative imaginations how you interpret the prompt, have a great weekend and we’ll all meet back here on Monday.

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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 new start.

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We’re properly into the new year now and The Cosmic Photo Challenge is back to take its place in your Monday schedule, with the prompt; A new start.

A straightforward one from me this week, which meets the brief perfectly, nonetheless.

At work we spent the last two weeks before the Christmas break moving our entire operation into larger premises and started anew in our improved environment last week.

So now when I come in to work, instead of seeing this every morning…

…and then taking half of it out into the car park, just so I have room to move; I now see this cavernous space.

A definite improvement, I’m sure you’ll agree and this sunset at the end of last week made for a fine new start to this year’s challenges.

How’s your new year going so far, let’s have a look…

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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.

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Happy New Year! Let’s start as we mean to go on and get right to your prompt for the first Cosmic Photo Challenge of 2023; A new start.

An obvious one, I admit, but one with plenty of scope for your usual inspired creativity, I’m sure.

See you on Monday for this year’s first show and tell, have a great weekend.

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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.

Happy New year.

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The Cosmic Photo Challenge will be taking a break this week, but it will return as usual with the first prompt of 2023 next Friday.

Thank you all for participating in the challenges so far, I hope to see you all showcasing your fabulous creativity in the months to come.

Happy New Year to you all, may it bring you all happiness and good fortune, see you next week.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Show us your Christmas.

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Hello there, I hope your festivities went as planned and you all had a lovely day. As usual we are celebrating Christmas today instead, because Rhonda had a twelve hour shift yesterday, so we’ve just bumped everything up a day.

As a result, I don’t have any “action shots” of Christmas happening, so to speak, but I do have a lot of photos, nonetheless.

I went for a Christmas Eve walk at Watersmeet, which is the National Trust property near Lynton and Lynmouth, an area  the Victorians described as “little Switzerland”.

I took so many, most of them form a special post on my other blog which you can peruse HERE, but here’s just a small selection to whet your appetite for the spectacular scenery of Exmoor.

Please go and check out the remaining photos, it really is a beautiful place.

Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you, I look forward to more of your fabulous photos in 2023.

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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.

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Good morning, I’m here to briefly interrupt your festive preparations to give you the theme for 2022’s penultimate edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

And it’s an obvious one, given the timing, it’s almost an annual tradition now; Show us your Christmas.

So whether you’re having a quiet one like us (our Christmas Day will be on Boxing Day again this year, as Rhonda is working for 12 hours), or celebrating in style with your extended family, give us the photographic flavour of your festivities on Monday.

Have a really fabulous weekend, thank you for taking part in the challenges again this year and I wish you the very merriest of Christmases to you and yours.

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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 ’22.

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Only two more prompts for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to go this year, so I thought it was time for us to review; The best of ’22.

So it’s time to blow our own trumpets, showcase our best bits, play favourites and glow with inner pride as we look back at some of the images we were especially pleased with over the last twelve months.

These could be photos you’ve already shared as part of the challenge, or maybe you’ve never taken part before and have hundreds to choose from!

Maybe you didn’t have room in previous challenges or you just have pictures from this year which deserve our attention, well then now’s your chance to shine.

My personal criteria for inclusion of my images in today’s post was more…esoteric, shall we say, in that mine were chosen as part of the creative process known technically as “mucking about”.

Here is my artistic representation of my photographic year, 2022

16 images were used to create this collage, how many can you spot?

What were your finest moments this year?

Come on, don’t be shy…

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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.

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Blimey, what a long cold week that was.

Anyway, now that’s finally over and it’s time to provide you with this week’s theme for The Cosmic Photo Challenge. I think the time has come to reflect on the photographic year and for you to share some of your favourites as we review; The best of ’22.

You can share whatever shots you like, whether you’ve posted them before, made new edits of existing images, or maybe you have a favourite photo which didn’t fit any of this year’s prompts, it’s entirely up to you

So let’s make Monday’s post the cream of the crop, have a great weekend and I’ll see you all soon.

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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.