Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouettes

For this week’s Photo Challenge, I offer you these Silhouettes, taken in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California.

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Venice Pier, sailboat, and surfers.


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Venice Beach. Waiting for the sunset.


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Venice Beach. Surfer and his assistant, Mr. Seagull.


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Venice Beach. Seagull silhouette and shadow.


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Venice Beach. Couple looking out to sea, waiting for the sunset.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

This week’s photo challenge is Contrasts. “Light and dark, tall and short, happy and sad — this week, share a shot that captures a contrast.”

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Contrasting buildings, New York City, NY.

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Contrasting attitudes, colors. Dogs in Siena, Italy.

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Contrasting lights. Muscle man, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Between

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Siena, Tuscany. Italy, 2014.

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“Love locks” in Venice bridge. Italy, 2014.

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Dog in Venice, Italy.

For this week’s photo challenge, Between, we are asked to “capture something in the middle of two things. It can be a literal interpretation of something between other things, or a more figurative approach.” Well, I guess I’m taking a literal approach.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra

This week’s photo challenge asks us to “share a photo that has a little something extra: an unexpected visitor, or a tranquil landscape with a splash of color.”

While photographing the Venice Beach Pier reflection on the wet sand, I caught a lone surfer on the background.

While photographing the Venice Beach Pier reflection on the wet sand, I caught a lone surfer on the background.

A woman holding red balloons walks right into the frame of my shot of "Urban Lights" at LACMA, LA.

A woman holding red balloons walks right into the frame of my shot of “Urban Lights” at LACMA, LA.

Sailboats peak through the thick fog covering the Santa Monica Bay, CA.

Sailboats peak through the thick fog covering the Santa Monica Bay, CA.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

“Share your take on the idea of Room— it could be an actual room in your house, a favorite gallery in your local museum, a cubicle at work. You could also take this challenge in a more abstract direction, and show us where you feel like you have room — or lack it.”

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story

“For this week’s challenge, we want you to become a documentary photographer and attempt to capture a candid moment of a person, place, or thing. Put your National Geographic hat on and tell a story by documenting a moment in time through a single image.”

Well, “candids” are my middle name, and I see a story or a special moment in each one of these shots. It’s up to the viewer to decide whether I’m right or wrong… 🙂

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It was just a matter of seconds before he realized that was not a living feline…

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Elderly couple watching the sunset in Santa Monica.

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Success on her first surf! Brother approves.

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Perfect landing!

Join this week’s challenge!