This week’s topic is Ground: sand, dirt, paths, walks, trails. I want to see plenty of soil in your photos this week. Can be anything from a bag of soil to large dirt piles, from a small garden with dirt visible to trails and roads. The possibilities are endless. Have fun and use your imagination and creativity with this topic.
Photo is a walking trail at Crystal Spring Rhododendron Park in Portland, Oregon.
For a list of upcoming topics, please see the list at below. Be creative and challenge yourself. Look for contrast or highly textured subjects to shoot.
Featured Bloggers
Thank you everyone for your overwhelming enthusiasm for the challenge last week. I’m proud to announce our featured bloggers from the Open Topic. Please check out their posts, they are worthy of a second look. ENJOY!
A new thing a day keeps the boredom away
Upcoming Topics
- Ground: sand, dirt, paths, walks, trails
- Houses: big, small, lighthouses, birdhouse, firehouse, toys
- Sculptures, Statues, Carvings
- Large Subjects
- Older than 50 years
- Hands, Feet, or Paws
This challenge accepts the following types of photography:
- Black and white photography
- Sepia tones (browns)
- Selective color with the majority of the photo being in black and white.
Hopefully you will have a lot of fun with this challenge and find your creative eye will be expanded. Here are a couple tips and tricks posts I have done specifically for black and white photography.
ENJOY and have FUN.
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MY ENTRY THIS WEEK
Qi (energy) hugs,
Cee
Cee's Photo Challenges 
The one with the guys working the land has great lines on it, the ploughed furrows of earth.
Here’s my attempt:
https://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/the-ground/
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Thanks for commenting 😀
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Excellent equestrian picture. It’s not easy to catch the horse’s movement and have it look graceful too. I will be starting my search for dirt. I could just start with the filth right here at home … Maybe not.
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I had to resist not to do that very same thing. With two dogs and two cats………and just plain not liking to clean. 😀
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Love the GROUND challenge!! http://kathleenswritings.com/2015/06/18/black-white-photo-challenge-ground/
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I love the horse! This is going to be a fun one for me, being on a farm and all 🙂
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Yeah, I can imagine your fun 😀 😀
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Making dirt look good can be a challenge. I like your choices Cee, especially the horse. In fact, I’ve gone for horses too. http://travelwithintent.com/2015/06/18/not-so-white-horses-camargue/
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Your horses were so playful and fun. 😀
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what a lovely equestrian photo! and interesting challenge.
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/06/cees-bw-challenge-ground.html
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hi cee intresting and different b&w photos you’ve taken here. here is my entry for this week, http://wp.me/p2AvI7-1q3.
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Thanks Robert. 😀
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Very different horse photos, Cee. 🙂 I like the perspective in the last one and the middle one (and the header) look excellent in B&W, conveying, at least to me, a feel of hard work.
janet
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Glad you like the photos Janet 😀
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Here is my ground shot:http://wp.me/p3gqMf-83
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Here’s a little bit of ground!!! https://aquamarineeyes.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/grounded/
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I love the path through the iris garden! Here is mine, Cee:
https://loisajay1213.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-ground/
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I was just at Crystal Spring Rhododendron Park in Portland, Oregon! Inspired to try this challenge this week.
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I’ve only been there that one time. And it was near the end of summer. So the rhodies weren’t out. But the ducks and squirrels sure were. It is a gorgeous place. I hope you do get to participate this week. Thanks for stopping by.
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I love the image of the ploughed land. Here is my contribution, taken in the Serengeti Tanzania http://wp.me/p2BDQm-1Sa
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Thanks for commenting.
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Hi Cee and friends ! How are you ?
Here my entry ! Ciaooooo
http://max510.com/2015/06/19/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-ground/
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I’m doing real well these days. Thanks so much for asking 😀
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Thank you for the mention Cee! I’ll be posting my ‘ground’ photo(s) in a day or two 🙂
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You are welcome. I so enjoy your photography. 😀
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Interesting challenge and more interesting photos Cee. Here are my ground photos.https://amaltaas.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-ground/
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Yours are amazing Cee. It was hard to find things that would work in B&W- here’s my attempt https://dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/cees-black-and-white-challenge-ground/
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Love, love your last two photos.
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Thanks Raewyn. Have a great weekend.
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I love the action shot of the horse with the rising dust and the earth of the flower fields full of potential. Here’s my entry for this week’s challenge:
https://oaktreesstudio.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/cees-b-w-photo-challenge-ground/
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Beautiful photos from farming! I through myself headlong into the unknown…http://wp.me/p1hCI2-4qH
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And came up shining beautifully! 😀
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😀 Sorry about my spelling though…I’m on vacation…
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It happens to the best of us. Have a wonderful vacation!!! 😀 😀
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Thank you – I hope I will have better weather than here in Sweden right now. It’s raining constantly, and only 15 degrees C.
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Wonderful black and white photography.
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Thanks so much for commenting 😀
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I really like that tableau shot of the men working. Great image.
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Thanks Lynne. Have a great day!
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I’m on the road traveling and trying to find my stories through photos. Here’s my first entry into your Black & White Challenge!! http://codedtransmissions.com/2015/06/23/cees-black-white-challenge-ground/
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I am so thrilled you participated this week. Thanks so much 😀 Happy travels.
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