January 5, 2020 – Beautiful Photographs

Jez’s WWE Challenge: January 5, 2020

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WWE 5 a WWE 5 b South River, Annapolis Maryland, December 30, 2019. This is my contribution for today for Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere challenge. And here is the heavily edited version of the second photo. I used the magic wand to single out specific areas in the picture. Then I tinkered with hue/saturation using the command [CNTRL-ALT-U]. After all, it is psychedelic Sunday! WWE 5 b psych

Mural a Day #4

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Ragtag Daily Prompt: Realm

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Babies 2 Babies 1 crop According to the court poets, her mother was the most beautiful woman in the entire realm. She was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was perhaps the most beautiful woman who had ever lived! While Queen Pirouette accepted such effusive praise as flattery, Princess Gargelle was prepared to accept the songs she heard as the gospel truth. A kind and giving person, Princess Gargelle’s sweet personality allowed her to admire her mother’s pulchritude without any stirrings of jealousy.

Psychedelic Sunday Butterfly, January 5, 2020

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Bonus Butterflies to Celebrate the New Year!

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Cee’s FOTD Challenge: January 5, 2020

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For no reason in particular, I decided to make today’s contribution to Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge patriotic in nature. Behold, the good old red-white-and-blue! Why is it that hothouse flowers have such beautiful blossoms, but absolutely no fragrance

January Lights Squared

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Christmas lights 4 square Please feel free to accuse me of not letting go of Christmas. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. So I’m sticking with it until I run out of photos. There! I said it! This my contribution to Becky’s for #JanuarySquare challenge and her topic this month is ____ Light. I made sure to crop this photograph so that it was a perfect square.

WWE 3 Granted, it was a cloudy day. On the other hand, there is sunlight. Yes? Well, at least it’s a nice view of the Chesapeake Bay. Happy New Year all!