Winners! -L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge- Weather

We really had great entries,  I think this was the most entries we've had!  It was hard to pick just two...

Here are the two winners for this week, the challenge was: Weather

1) The Dayton Time

 I love the icy- crisp snow on the branch, how close-up the focus is, and the wonderful bokeh in the background! I will forever have a thing for bokeh :)

2)  Mayhem Mania

I couldn't resist these happy, joyful faces! This shot is a great example of snowy weather, sledding weather, to be exact :)

I am so glad you all joined up, I am happy to meet the bloggers new to our challenge- welcome!

I hope you join us next weekend when the theme will be: Learning spaces

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge- Weather

Welcome to the 
LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge, Weather edition.

Link up your photo that says, "Weather".  Please link your blog entry, not your general home page, and please visit a few other entries.  Linky closes 10 p.m. Sunday night, two winners will be announced/displayed Tuesday night.

Link up!

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge- WINNERS! -Winter Lessons edition

The winners for the Winter Lessons edition of the LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge are:

1) Lori's Lolz

she wrote that they were learning about snowfall.  Awww!

2)  My Home in the Smokies

 

Joy wrote about her children working together to engineer this snowman, and about how happy she is that they all get along so well.

Thank you everyone for playing along!  The Challenge will be taking the next 2 weeks off-

I hope you will join us January 8th, 2011 when the challenge will be:  Weather

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge- Winter lessons

Welcome to the LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge, Winter Lessons edition.

Share your photos of learning happening in your life this Winter.  Examples might be; enjoying a good book by the fire, stringing popcorn, bird-watching, cutting snowflakes...or anything else that shouts "winter lessons" to you.

Linky for the challenge closes 10 p.m Sunday night, winners will be announced Tuesday night.

Good luck!

**of special note, I am giving away a copy of 
Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters' Guide to Shooting from the Heart - you'll love it, promise!

**To enter the giveaway, leave a comment - one comment- under this post (not the linkey box).  I will be taking comments for this until Tuesday night, 10 pm pacific time.  One winner will be chosen by random number generator.  I am sorry, but I have to restrict this giveaway to Continuous United States only - It's a big book and the postage would kill me....

WINNERS! -L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge, Our lettered days

Here are this week's winners of the LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge- Our lettered days edition:

1)  Ten kids and a Dog

hands-on, creative learning at its best!  The letter of the day must have been K!

2)  Janet Rose

being creative with nature, love it!

Congratulations, winners!

I hope you can join us this Saturday when the challenge will be "Winter lessons"

* Also, I will be giving away a photography book!  Check back, it's a gem!

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge- Winners! Cropped edition

 Here are the two winner's of the cropped edition of the L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge.

1) Scripted Hearts

Not at all what I had in mind when I announced the theme, but- I love how 'out of the box' this photo is, she answered the challenge in a different direction then the norm.

love it!  The flowers are sooo beautiful, too!

2) The Long Journey Home

Her original was more about the vastness of the water, than about this expression of joy.  Cropping tight around the subject changed the feel of the photo.  Wonderful!

So glad you were able to join up, I hope you will be back next week when the challenge will be,

Our Lettered Days

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge: Cropped

This is the Cropped edition of the LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge.
Link up your photos that are just so much more when cropped in tight.

Here is my cropped photo of Josie and Idle. 

Below is the original, straight out of the camera shot.  I cropped it to focus on their faces, getting rid of the clutter of the fences in the background.  I also cloned out the fence sticking out of her head, and the toggle on her glove.  I then played with the contrast and color a bit. 

Linky closes 10 p.m. pacific time Sunday night.  Two winners will be announced Tuesday night.