Nimavenl - Nicole's Random Ramblings

Some more photos from last month's outing-with-camera in the mist. Not quite a separate Challenge but hey... It's been challenging lately to find the time to take and edit photos so I say it counts. Right?! Either way: YAY! I managed to write and publish a Photo Challenge post on a Sunday! It's been a while. Enjoy!!!

After posting a single photo as a preview of this newest Photo Challenge last week , here are some of the other photos. I hope you enjoy the beauty of a misty morning. As is evident, I haven't written a Photo Challenge post every week, haven't written a proper Photo Challenge post for some time now. Yes, creating a Photo Challenge for this blog was meant in part to challenge me to go out there and take photos, however I've just not felt inspired lately. Walking around with a camera, attempting to see the beauty all around, sharing that beauty - All that sounds great in theory, however doesn't always work out in real life. Sometimes you're just too tired or drained. Sometimes you have a period when seeing the beauty is hard. Sometimes you feel let down by others and taking photos takes too much emotional effort. Sometimes you look at what is happening in the world and feel like taking photos of beautiful scenes is pointless. Sometimes you wonder why you even bothe...

In my last Challenge-related post, I wrote about choosing a topic for this week's Photo Challenge. I wrote that I would most likely choose to go with the first five topics of photographer Nicole S. Young's 10-day #StayOutThere Challenge . I hope it won't come as too big a surprise that that's exactly what I chose to do. This week's Photo Challenge blog post features photos covering the following topics, as inspired by Nicole S. Young's Challenge: 01: Sky 02: Flower 03: Water 04: Blur 05: Texture Quick update: Photos will be posted soon - I hope. It's been a stressful week and sitting down to edit photos (to get rid of the spots and scratches on my camera's lens) has not been a priority. Here are links to the photos that Nicole S. Young took: Sky Flower Water Blur Texture I hope that despite the lateness of this week's Photo Challenge photos, you will enjoy the photos when they do appear!

On the 25th of August I posted a blog entry about photographer Nicole S. Young's 10-day #StayOutThere challenge . Inspired by the topics she chose to cover for her challenge, I decided to see if I could 'do' her Challenge as well, my own way. The topics Nicole S. Young chose for the ten days of her Challenge: 01: Sky 02: Flower 03: Water 04: Blur 05: Texture 06: Farmer's Market 07: Summer 08: Play 09: Shade 10: Reflection In my earlier post, I mentioned that finding a Farmer's Market (#06) might be challenging. However, I did figure out a possible alternative. There is a carnival / fair going on in my city at the moment. It may not be a Farmer's Market however it does have a lot of interesting-looking attractions. A walk through the Kermis might be a good substitute for a Farmer's Market. I faced another challenge when deciding on a topic to photograph for #08: Play. In the past, I've written that I don't like taking photos of people without p...

This week's Photo Challenge used photos taken on the same day and at the same location as last week's Photo Challenge photos. In a way, they're more of the same - photos of nature taken around the Noord Holland area in The Netherlands. Moss on a branch #01 Moss on a branch #02 Moss on a branch #03 A Touch of Red Fold Me Up Branches and Leaves It's A Fluffy World Flower Thistles on the Water Delicate in White

It's Tuesday evening and I'm writing a Photo Challenge post. Honestly, I'm a little amazed with myself. Instead of trying to come up with a topic on Saturday and posting photos on Sunday, I'm actually starting 'early' this week and posting the first photos on Tuesday! (Heck, I might even try to add a photo every day this week to have a complete post on Sunday. No guarantees though...) Enjoy nature up close and personal this week! Sunday Update: I've added more photos!   Thistles, horizontal Cows in a field Thistles, vertical Just a field

I have a confession to make. I didn't take many photos this week. Well, a few of the sunset and a few of some trees, but really - I didn't think that they were nice enough to share or even to edit profusely and then share. I've been busy reading books and honestly, reading has been so much fun that taking my camera out wasn't high on my list of things to do. Even looking through older photos to find some to share seemed like too much time away from my books. Seeing I decided on weekly photo challenges, I feel a little bad about not actually taking any photos, yet reading has been so much fun that I don't feel guilty or bad about not taking my camera out. So, instead of sharing more photos and works of art that aren't actually mine (yet still very awesome, cool, amazing, share-worthy and all that), this week I'm posting several older photos. Because, yes, I did look through some of my older photos after deciding that posting no photos at all would be worse ...