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Photo Challenge: Local

As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
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Photo Challenge: H2O

A thread flows affirming life with a humble reminder we’re only nests made of frail twigs, stray hairs, a cooled...
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Photo Challenge: Nostalgia

In a dark rosy blur of nostalgia, free of time and fear, images rise to tell the story of who we became, just a half-step...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Quest

Go the distance. Do it with grace or do it ugly, because some days that's what your best looks like. It...
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Weekly Photo Challenge:

Nothing. There isn't one this week. When a cloud has a thought cloud and even then, nothing to say. ......
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge

It's that time of day/ year/ life. Balanced close enough to the edge that gravity goes pastel light and the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror

There's a mirror flashing a signal, a code that lights my pond blue: I'll watch now. You rest. ... Anna...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

Wear black and drink the gallery wine. Formulate an intellectual opinion. Consider your emotions. Or Show so much tooth your...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare

Such hopeful ease, confidence in the face of contrary possibility, is rare for man.   Anna Blake at Infinity Farm...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun

The secret he bleated was repeated with a neigh and a bray: hooray for today! ... *apologies to anyone looking...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Narrow

He takes a narrow view of rain and a chill wind. He takes a narrow view of sharp voices, quick...
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Photo Challenge: Cherry on Top

Maybe it’s just simple math. The cumulative tally of giving versus withholding. Of offering open space for a wisp of an...
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Photo Challenge: Details

Search the horizon Lean into the wind Scream truth out loud Rage against monsters. Then find ground in the details....
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Photo Challenge: Look Up.

Look up to him?  We all do. Horses would benefit if we loved them less and respected them more. ___Read...
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Photo Challenge: Opposites.

  Stillness bounded by movement, offered without demand. Independent, connected, Cradled as close as skin, but set free. At peace...
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Photo Challenge: Partners

Move together in silence, an inaudible song. A wordless place, deep and shadowy and still. They wait for us to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

The mingling of moist breath, the warm embrace of a curve, the uncomplicated wholeness that we covet. And the guilt...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

Not politics, religion; not money or guns. Answer deep and pure, in our heart, soul; our Earth and Sun. ~~~Read...
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