Friendly Friday Blog Challenge – Close ups and Macros

How are your skills in close-ups or macro photography? Need some practice? The Challenge for the next two weeks is to make a post about close-ups or macros. It is not just about photography as we welcome stories and writing too. Perhaps you have had a close-encounter and wish to write about it? Title and […]

Friendly Friday Blog Challenge – Close ups and Macros

Lens-Artists Challenge #168 – Seen Better Days

Neglected “Pause and remember – nothing lasts forever” Jennifer Young This week the Lens Artists team invites you to join us in exploring places and things that have “seen better days”. Through the years I’ve learned how much we photographers love dilapidated, vintage, older things. My archives are a veritable storehouse of worn, aging items […]

Lens-Artists Challenge #168 – Seen Better Days

PHOTO ESSAY: Central District’s ‘The Liink Project’ Features Local Black Businesses and Artists

by Ronnie Estoque On Saturday, Sept. 18, The Liink Project, a co-op retail space in the Central District, hosted a pop-up market featuring local Black entrepreneurs and artists. The event featured lively music, Black art, and goods for purchase.  The venue, on Union Street and 20th Avenue, opened this past summer and features retail space […]

PHOTO ESSAY: Central District’s ‘The Liink Project’ Features Local Black Businesses and Artists

Sunflowers

Who doesn’t love sunflowers? With their distinctive shape and color, they represent happiness as they cheerfully tilt their faces to the sun. They are also the basis of several fables and religious customs. An ancient myth tells the story of a sea nymph named Clytie who adored the God Apollo, but when it appeared their […]

Sunflowers

PHOTO ESSAY: Punk Rock Flea Market Returns After Pandemic Hiatus

by Susan Fried A huge mural with the words “Punk Rock Flea Market” — painted in vibrant colors on the exterior wall of the future location of the Unicorn Bar in White Center — greeted the hundreds of people who came to shop at the flea market over the weekend of Sept. 18–19. The event, which […]

PHOTO ESSAY: Punk Rock Flea Market Returns After Pandemic Hiatus

PHOTO ESSAY: Punk Rock Flea Market Returns After Pandemic Hiatus

by Susan Fried A huge mural with the words “Punk Rock Flea Market” — painted in vibrant colors on the exterior wall of the future location of the Unicorn Bar in White Center — greeted the hundreds of people who came to shop at the flea market over the weekend of Sept. 18–19. The event, which […]

PHOTO ESSAY: Punk Rock Flea Market Returns After Pandemic Hiatus