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Tuesday Photo Challenge – Round Up 109

Shining stars!

Welcome to the 109th round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge! You definitely took a shining to this past week’s theme!

I like the variety of approaches that you took this week in tackling the idea of Shine! With lots of beautiful images and thoughtful prose, you created a stunning set of posts that were a joy for me to read. Thank you!!!

Please let each other know how much you appreciate all these great entries!

Here’s the setting Sun working on its last moments to shine on this day…

20150131-Landscape_57A0885 — *A Shining Light Setting*

On a very cold Winter’s day, as I was wrapping up from shooting lots of snow and other beach scenes, the Sun started to set and I was presented with this lovely landscape!

The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:

Ed kicked things off this week in his blog, In My Mind’s Eye, with a wonderful shine that is generated by the brilliant white of the swan!
Sarah captured a beautiful shine this week in By Sarah, both off the road and ocean in Haleakala National Park.
Nicole caught a wonderful shine in her post in Une Photo, Un Poéme, as she captured the playful interaction between light and water!
With another great photo in theonlyD800inthehameau, we get to see what can be achieved with simple tools that are at one’s disposal…
Gwenny’s post in Field Notes from over the Hill garners a wonderful tableau on Ma & Dad’s farm off an old rusted truck!
Ron’s entry in Progressing into Solitude catches a wonderful shine, as the arch arcs into the sky!
Xenia’s post in whippetwisdom highlights the shine both in the stream and the eye of a whippet. Xenia’s second post is in her blog Tranature showcases the wonderful shine that we get off the water!
In a lovely post in Sliku Svoju Ljubim II, Klara captures the shine of a magnificent light art installation.
Donna captures another wonderful shot in her blog No-Madder Nomadder when she photographed her father and step-mother on Mt. Lemmon!
Candace’s post in Netdancer’s Musings has me wanting to go visit Cabo Cape, as the light dances magically across the water!
With a wonderful photo of the sun shining across the water in All the Shoes I Wear, we start a great reading post filled with adventure!
With another great photograph in Land of Images, it might well be Heaven on Earth to see such beauty!
Hammad’s post in The Blog of Hammad Rais not only features a great photo, but als asks a deep question!
Yinglan tells us the tale of a disastrous hike in her blog This is Another Story, filled with falls and rolls down the mountain, and also a beautiful photograph!
In a lovely post in Heaven’s Sunshine, we get to enjoy the quiet beauty of a sunrise across a pond.
In another great post in Don’t Hold Your Breath, we see the Purple Sapphire, whose iridescence shines with grace and beauty!
In pensivity101, the lovely tale of shine is what is present when best friends, hubby and her, are together.
In Urban Liaison‘s post, we get a view of an incredibly cool illuminated fountain that creates some spooky imagery!
Stella’s great post in Giggles & Tales takes a shining to a number of scenes that veritably shine! Which one do you like best?
This week, Nicole takes us into nature in Doar Nicole, as she focuses on the ABC’s of shine; great post!
Miriam puts up another great post in her blog Out an’ About, as it is your time to shine!
In Showers of Blessing, Miriam gives us a wonderful view of Denali Park with shine coming off the brilliant snow!

I hope that you enjoy these posts and let the authors know!

Tuesday Photo Challenge – Shine

Shine, shine on!

Welcome to Week 109 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge. Yes, I had to go here after last week’s theme!

After a week of Rise, it was logical for me to come up with Shine for this week! It was just too much to resist 🙂 So, your challenge is to make your post Shine to the max, whether it is the light shining or the bright shine of a smile or something, to which you just took a shining… You’ve got the idea: there are lots of ways to interpret this theme, so let your creative vision shine through and carry you forward!

I’m looking forward to seeing all the shining beacons of creativity!!

Here’s a moment where I caught the shine of an early morning…

Autumn-Clarity_MG_9688-Crop — *Autumn Clarity*

This view caught my eye as I was wondering around and looking for something that would catch the interest of my lens… The morning Sun shining through the leaves and showing off the variety of texture and opacity made for a special moment.

The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:

Write a post with an image for this week’s topic
Please tag your post with fpj-photo-challenge (if you’re not sure about how tags work, please check out this WordPress article about tagging posts)
Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week (note: pingbacks may not appear immediately, as my site is set up to require approval for linking to it; helps against previous bad experiences with spamming)
Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!

I’m looking forward to seeing what light shines in your wonderful, creative brains!

With Rain comes Sunshine!

Reflections on eclipse day…

The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the wonderful theme of ooh, Shiny!; after a first foray into this theme with a moment from Chiusdino in Tuscany, I thought there might be another one in the catalog…

Sometimes, as we walk along the sidewalk, a shiny bit catches our eye; after a rain shower, there might be plenty of opportunity, particularly, if the Sun has come out from behind the clouds to announce its presence…