The challenge from PhotoBlog this month is: 100 Steps: Prepare a short itinerary you would like to explore, and once there, stop every 100 steps and find something to photograph around you.
This project is about finding inspiration in an unknown environment. Most of the time, it will be easy, because you will find what your itinerary was about (pretty buildings, flowers, people… or whatever you were expecting to see).
But other times, you will be in a spot where nothing makes a good photo at first glance… Wait a little, walk a few steps around where you stopped, look up, look down, change your lens, and I promise you: you will find something good to photograph!
This is what I came up with from the images I took on my walk.
The header consists of other photos I took on my 100 steps walk.
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My boy Kevin Costner scores at the Emmy Award‘s just a few minutes ago with his role in “Hatfields & McCoys,” taking the best actor in a miniseries or movie award and likening his trophy to an Olympic medal.
I’ve seen the mini series and by God it is GOOD !!!! Kevin Costner ROCKS in it.
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I love this! I have a photo group on Facebook. This would be a great challenge. 🙂
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Check out the link for the guidelines and go do it. They have some great and really interesting monthly challenges on the PhotoBlog site.
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What a great little trek you took! The images are lovely! Z
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Thank you !!! It is just where I walk the dog everyday. I am very lucky to have all this so close at hand and it is so changeable with the seasons.
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What a great idea for a Photo Challenge – great photos Jo 🙂
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Thanks Marianne. I thought so. It really makes you look for something interesting where you are standing…and suddenly you see !!!!
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Lovely Image ! my favourite is the bee on the yellow flower 🙂
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Thanks Max…I like that one too.
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Great shots! It must have been a lovely walk! 🙂
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It is. I walk Chevvy there all the time and it is always different.
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All that on one trek? Wonderful!
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I know. The whitebaiter [man fishing] was a surprise. I have never been able to stomach whitebait…tiny little fishies that they toss in the pan and fry up…you can see their eyes…not for me I am afraid. So was the Scottish flag…never seen that before. Kiwis are so surprising.
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Jo, what lovely pictures! But what I enjoy most is being reminded that it’s spring somewhere in the world, even if we’re lurching toward winter here. (I really really hate winter. Can you tell?)
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Thank you. I don’t much like winter either anymore. Do you think it is an age thing ??? I really hate extremes of any sort these days.
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Maybe partly plain ol’ age – though in my case there are a couple of personal complications: a stubborn and very elderly mother in poor health who lives about 100 miles (165 km, roughly) away, so that I dread her getting really sick during heavy snow when I can’t get to her; and a husband who’s forbidden on pain of a second heart attack to ever pick up a snow shovel again, which means dealing with the stuff becomes my job. These days, snow is my enemy.
And if there’s no snow to lie around being decorative, winter is just drab and dreary and uncomfortable, so why bother with it?
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Well they are very good reasons to not enjoy winter. Luckily I have never had to shovel snow.
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I love your presentation of the photos, what a lovely post!
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Thank you. I love that you like the way I presented these images.
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Chevy is a lucky dog to have a daily walk like this!! There must be so many different smells along the way! 🙂
Thanks for the info re: blog behind this great challenge; heading there now to check it out!
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You should take part in some of them !!!!
I tell Chevvy every day just how lucky she is…she then gives me a very disdainful stare until I back down.
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This challenge sounds like fun. You did a super job. Summer’s not over yet :-).
Kevin Costner? Girl, I have a giant movie poster from “Wolves” framed in old barn wood hanging on the wall on my balcony. Don’t even tell me about Kevin Costner!!! LOL! Hatfields and McCoys was OUTSTANDING! Now all I need is a movie poster of that :-).
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Thanks Gemma.
You have a GIANT movie poster…oh sweet heaven. It was amazing wasn’t it!!! {Hatfields & McCoys} I think it is the best he has ever done actually. He just keeps getting better and better. I was so thrilled when he won. He never really gets the recognition he deserves.
I had a friend I used to drag to all his movies…she reckoned the worst part was watching me drool.
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What an interesting challenge – you certainly have great material to photograph where you live!
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I am very lucky Margie…very lucky !!!!!
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Beautiful selections for the 100 steps!
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Thank you so much Amy !!!!
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Such beautiful photos, Jo. You were surrounded by beauty, everywhere you turned. 🙂
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I love THAT walk…it is always throwing up something new and beautiful.
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Gorgeous collage Jo, I love it and wish I had the energy to join in with this fab idea.
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Thanks Gilly. You just have to take a walk and count your steps…easy peasy. With a camera in hand of course. Chevvy was getting a little annoyed with all the stopping though.
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Oh and i like the seed head best 🙂
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I rather liked how that shot came out myself. I guess that’s what these challenges are about really. Making you stop and look at things you might normally not take time with and find the beauty in them.
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This is an amazing idea to challenge your perception of an area, love how you presented it as a collage, maybe I will try that. Do you use Photoshop? I must go check out that photoblog site
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No I used Picasa for this one. And yes it is always good to take a deeper look at what is around you.
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Really neat idea for a challenge! Once I get my digital camera I am going to have soooooo much fun. 🙂 I liked all your flower pictures but that hand-made seagull just makes me crack up! You have some very talented artists (and photographers 😉 ) in your community. How lucky that you can be a part of it.
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I am very lucky that there is so much creativity and quirkiness around. Suits me perfectly.
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Excellent post Jo ,I love it 🙂
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Thanks Jake…means a lot that you do.
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