SIMPLICITY photo challenge............

'Your journey to expand and practice digital photography skills'

Come join the fun with our hostess Donna of 

Cottage Days and Journeys. 

April's A Personal Photo Challenge 

runs all this weekend.

We'd love to see you share what your eye saw through 

your camera......and Donna's blog has 

helpful articles on getting better photos.

This month's challenge topic is SIMPLICITY - one to 

three photos are requested in your post.

Because I have so many photos in my archives, to 

make this challenge easier I decided to focus on the 

color blue, a color which I love and which seems 

to connect to 'simplicity'.

Mykonas, Greece - November 2012

One day shore excursion of the island with easily 

recognizable white buildings and blue doors. 

Time was early afternoon, windy and overcast. 

One of several lovely island stops on the Venice 

to Istanbul cruise last Fall.

This shot is somewhat unusual for me because it's 

without flowers, vines, trees, shrubs etc., 

just undecorated hard surfaces in the foreground,

and a glimpse of blue ocean and sky in the background.

Taken with my now aging, but much-loved 

Olympus SP59OUZ - a great 

point and shoot I've used worldwide -

it has never disappointed. Rather

slow to capture moving wildlife, however I've 

taken awesome close-up photos of animals in 

Africa with this camera, also great macro shots 

of flowers, insects, home decor and treasures at 

antiques shops etc.

Morning glory - front porch Summer 2012

Also taken with the same Olympus camera.  
No details available, probably a macro 
shot taken mid-morning with the heat of a late 
Summer North Carolina day just building up.
I don't recall doing any editing on this. It was 
perfect with the negative space a great 
background, and the bloom itself almost a silhouette 
but with enough color to make it much prettier 
than stark black and white. 

I'll soon be planting seeds for this Summer's 
Morning glories and Moonflowers, annual 
climbers to shade my front porch.

Iceberg - Lemaire Channel, Antarctica 
January 2013

It's really true, icebergs are not always white, they 
often have stunning shades of blue and green woven into 
graphic patterns.......no color was added to this shot. 

Taken with my Canon EOS7D with Tamron AF18-270mm lens, 
set on P - I just like to make it easy!
Early morning arrival and then cruising cautiously 
through sea ice. This was one of many icebergs 
floating around our ship, the MS Expedition, 
as we slowly entered through a very small 
opening into the channel. 

Incredible rock and ice scenery on either side, Crabeater 
seals, Leopard seals and humpback whales all around us.
Outside temp. was about 40F but wind was blowing and it 
felt much colder being in such close proximity to the ice.
 I recall having to run down get my heavy gloves from my 
cabin to enable me to stay on deck and take 
photos......didn't want frostbite!

Hope you enjoy the simplicity of these photos. 

Each one reminds me of a very special day,  

here at the cottage, or far away in some 

exciting place in the world.

This post is linked to Donna's A Personal Photo Challenge 

for April. 

Hope you'll join us - click here for more info.