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52 Photo Challenge: Week 27-Starburst

“I became the fractured shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.” —David B. Lentz, The Fine Art of Grace

This week my assignment for the 52 photo challenge was to capture a starburst. I spent all last week sick with a pretty awful cold, so I didn’t get out to take pictures until this morning. I hiked my favorite neighborhood trail and I’d forgotten how wild it can feel this time of year. The turkeys were up in the roosting tree, a pair of large hawks kept their eyes on me, and the dead leaves and grass made some parts of the trail slippery.

Although I went to find starbursts, I found lots of other things far more interesting. Let me know if you have a favorite photo and please forgive me for being so behind in reading other blogs. I’m finding it hard lately to keep up with everything, but I’m trying. Hopefully this week things will slow down a bit.

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  • Photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW
  • If you want to join the 52 Photo Challenge, you can find all the information at nicolesy.com

52 Photo Challenge
Week 1: Bokeh
Week 2: Silhouette
Week 3: Black and White
Week 4: Motion Blur
Week 5: Texture
Week 6: Framing
Week 7: Leading Lines
Week 8: Negative Space
Week 9: Patterns
Week 10: Symmetry
Week 11: Green
Week 12: Sidelight
Week 13: Sense of Scale
Week 14: One Lens
Week 15: Series
Week 16: Flat Lay
Week 17: Behind the Scenes
Week 18: Water
Week 19: Blurry Foreground
Week 20: Unique Perspective
Week 21: Shadow
Week 22: Food
Week 23: Abstract
Week 24: Reflection
Week 25: Contrast Color
Week 26: Think in Threes

51 thoughts on “52 Photo Challenge: Week 27-Starburst”

    • Thank you, John! I appreciate the grace and hope I can catch up on your blog this week 🙂 Those turkeys are so funny. They sit up in a dying tree and the ground below them is littered in feathers. The first time my kids and I found them we burst out laughing. I had no idea turkeys could be so high in a tree. They make quite a racket too! Those berries are pretty and delicious! I only ate a few 🙂

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      • You’re welcome, my friend. Eat all of those delicious wild berries! Years ago in the early 1980s, my folks owned some nice acreage in northern lower Michigan. The wild turkeys were everywhere and very comical to watch landing in the trees. They tried hard to not fall off of the branches! Such a large bird to be landing in the trees…

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  8. Me photo relic. No camera work since days of Tri-X film. And I wasn’t good. That said, challenging topic perhaps – way beyond my skill. But I like #1 for the overall image, sun and dim red flowers. But neither am I ag’in some Photoshop mostly to bring out the flowers more. #2 very nice, delicate – strong Sun engaged with wisps of grass in bloom. Appealing. #8 could be titled “ghost”, and I’d believe. Unusual, attractive photo. Not fond of turkeys. Saw doc by “turkey whisperer”, great till they reached puberty then they turned on him – nasty attitudes. Always something to like in your work, plural I mean.

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    • Turkeys are scary! I had a friend once get attacked while on break at work and her wounds were pretty awful. I get what you are saying about #1 and I think you are right. I lost some of the color of the flowers with the editing. I’m glad you liked #8. I was fond of that one too. I loved playing with the softness of the early morning light before the sun broke through the trees. The difference in light during the sunrise hour is one of my favorite things to experience.

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