spotted photo

Hanna has posted the new theme for this month:  street art, or what you see as you walk your urban environment.  Hanna loves graffiti and has documented some great images showing artsy graffiti.  I have a little of that but I find architectural details artistic and love to document that in my wanders through a city.  Why don't you join us by browsing through your stash of photos and see what you have that fits the theme "street art"?

Underside of stairway at Pike Place Market.

City dumpster.

Sculpture at the aquarium, downtown Seattle.

Sculpture at a tiny spit of a city park in Seattle.

Seattle train yard graffiti.

Mural on a building in Chemainus, BC.

Me getting up close and personal with city art, Victoria, BC.

Hubcap art at the local library parking lot, Seattle.

Start the post with graffiti, end it with graffiti........

What do you see in the streets of your town?

Thanks again to Hanna for creating this way to share photos that haven't seen the light of day in months (sometimes years) and some I'd even forgotten about!

photo spotted: nature

Hanna has once again offered a theme and reason to wander through our photos - to "spot" a theme in how we take our photos.  This month is a hugely broad theme of "nature" - to refine it a bit, do you see a sub-theme in your photos?  A color, a season, water, trees, rocks, whatever, that you return to again and again?  Since I have about a million nature photos, this was tough.

Maybe roses?

Maybe trees?

Maybe mountain vistas?

Maybe close-up nature textures?

Or, how about gorgeous gardens?

Mother nature is so endlessly changing, so often dressed in her finery, she creates such beautiful, colorful settings - how could we mere mortals NOT love her in all her glory?  We try to capture and interpret the beauty with our cameras, our paintbrushes, our pencils and collage pieces. We find inspiration in her vistas and the teeniest of details.

Thanks Hanna for once again giving me an reason to go back and sort through some of my favorite photos.  Why don't you take a moment and look through your nature photos - and then share with us?