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The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Down in the grass.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography15 Comments

Hello, welcome to a low down and deep green edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week themed around the prompt; Down in the grass.

*edit: please excuse the mysteriously early Sunday post, I was sure I’d scheduled it for Monday as usual.

It was yet another gloriously sunny weekend, making it almost impossible to take a bad picture. So; a variety of grasses and wild flowers with all their different seed heads against a beautiful clear blue sky; plus the neatly mown, dew covered grass of a golf course. By a lake. What’s not to like?

How did your photo grazing go over the weekend?

Come on, join in, it’s so easy…

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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: Set in stone.

On By dalecooper57In photography15 Comments

Good morning, welcome to a very wet Monday, kicking off the week with today’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

This week’s theme is very specific, at least you’d think so, because it’s; Set in stone.

Now let’s see what you captured over the 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Inversions.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

Happy bank holiday Monday to you all, I hope the Easter weekend went swimmingly and you’re enjoying the extra day off.

This week The Cosmic Photo Challenge is based on the prompt; Inversions.

I went out snapping early yesterday morning, without a clear idea of what I would do with my photos, but I had a flash of inspiration as I sat in the garden with a cider and I think they came out rather well.

I like the way the inverted half of each image makes it look like they’re not lined up straight, but they really are, honest.

How did you do with the topsy turvy challenge this week..?

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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 arrival of Spring.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography18 Comments

Another Monday, another chance to take part in The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week takes its inspiration from the prompt; The arrival of Spring.

Rhonda and I took a stroll round Arlington Court house and gardens yesterday afternoon (please go and check out most of the pictures I took HERE), where the Spring bulbs were in full bloom and there was a definite feeling of regeneration in the air.

How did your search for signs of Spring go..?

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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: Looking through.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography23 Comments

Monday morning means it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to brighten your day, this week with images based on the prompt; Looking through.

I captured some contrasting views of Barnstaple, some of which were looking thru the flowers, allowing me to crowbar in a jangly dream pop classic for good measure.

This one is a bird feeder, in case you’re interested

What did you look through at the weekend?

Come on, show and tell time…

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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: Interesting buildings.

On By dalecooper57In photography13 Comments

Hooray, it’s Monday again!

Why so pleased to start the week, I hear you ask. Well, because it means it’s The Cosmic Photo Challenge of course, today based on the prompt; Interesting buildings.

I have to admit the theme of this week’s challenge came to me at five o’clock on Friday morning, an hour into the four and a half hour drive to central London from Devon. 

We had to travel to the American Embassy in Nine Elms, which is surrounded by the luxury high-rise, Thames-side apartments of Embassy Gardens, for a one hour passport renewal appointment, before driving the 250 miles back home.

Fortunately it was a lovely sunny day and the architecture was at its sparkly best. The Embassy itself, with its sculptural facade and two apartment blocks with an extraordinary glass swimming pool  suspended between them, a dozen storeys high, were particularly impressive.

Inside the Embassy, looking out across London from the second floor

What structural wonders did you discover over the weekend? Come on, show us watcha got…

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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: Taken from below.

On By dalecooper57In photography16 Comments

Good morning, time to greet the week with The Cosmic Photo Challenge and this week’s theme; Taken from below.

A modest selection from me today, captured at home and in the garden, all from low down looking up.

Were you any more inspired or adventurous over the weekend?

Come on, let’s have a look at your pictures…

*****

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: Bare trees.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography16 Comments

Another weekend gone in a flash, but with The Cosmic Photo Challenge to restart your week, Mondays aren’t so bad.

This week we were out searching for Bare trees and I was spoilt for choice, on my misty but not unpleasant wander around Rock Park in Barnstaple, yesterday afternoon.

The dogwood stems really pop in the grey winter light

How did your mission go, seeking out au naturale arboreal models for your weekend’s homework?

Come on, show us, we’re very friendly and we’d love you to join in…

*****

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: Shades of grey.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography11 Comments

That’s another wet weekend done and dusted and The Cosmic Photo Challenge is here to continue the theme with; Shades of grey.

I was sitting in the shed listening to the rain on Saturday when something alighted (heavily) on the roof. I poked my camera over the door frame and… Oops, one startled pigeon.

Removing the colours really focuses in on the shape and form of things

And there aren’t too many things greyer than the moon.

What do you have to offer this monochrome 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: Corrosion and decay.

On By dalecooper57In photography14 Comments

Hello, could I just interrupt your Monday for a minute to talk about The Cosmic Photo Challenge?

This week our prompt is; Corrosion and decay.

There’s a strange beauty in corruption and demolition, so I rather enjoyed this challenge. I hope you also found it engaging to eschew conventional beauty for a while and rough it for the sake of photography.

It’s nice to see more new people taking part in the challenges recently, so if you’re one of them, hello. Now let’s see what you came up with 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.