This week our topic is Close Ups
Be creative if you feel like it, and fun with this challenge this week. Remember your photos needs to be black and white, desaturated, sepia (brown tones) or selective color. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all come up.

Feel free to take new photos or dig through your archives. The main object of this challenge is to have fun.
Featured Bloggers
I had a marvelous response from all of you on last week’s Any kind of seating challenge. I want to say thank you to each of you for participating and sharing your photos. Here are the featured bloggers for this week. Their posts really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
Upcoming Topics
For a list of upcoming topics, please see the list below. Be creative and challenge yourself. For a great black and white photo look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph.
- Circles and Curves
- Birds
- Candid Shots
- Fence and Gates
- Shoes, Boots, Slippers
- Hot or Cold Things
- In or on Water
I hope you have FUN a lot of fun with this challenge.
For more information on this challenge, please visit the Cee’s Black & White Challenge page.
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My Entry this Week




I’ve put together a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
Qi (energy) hugs
Cee

Love the zinnia!!
https://fredamans.blogspot.com/2020/11/hibiscus_26.html
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Love the chubby squirrel photo! Too cute!
Thanks for sharing a link to my blog post, Cee!
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My pleasure 😀
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Lovely photod
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Thank you Sheree 😀
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Fab! 🙂 🙂
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Thanks Jo 😀
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Lovely connection!
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Aaarghh… I meant COLLECTION. Sorry, Cee!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and Chris. That squirrel looks like its eaten a couple of Thanksgiving dinners already!
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It’s an old shot, so that is a possibility 😀 😀 Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones 😀
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Gorgeous collection! So pretty! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank you Maria 😀
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Lovethose Cee.. great B&W choices..
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Thanks ever so kindly Lisa 😀
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Wonderful gallery! love the cute squirrel… Thank you so much for featuring my post 😀
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The pleasure is all mine Rita 😀
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The cat is making me feel peaceful..
https://100countrytrek.com/2020/11/26/close-up-images/
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great pictures cee that you have chosen for your theme, here is my contribution to challenge week, https://wp.me/p2AvI7-3ED.
many greetings robert
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Nice! Love the eagle 🙂
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It’s one of my all time favorite photos 😀
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I love the cat and the squirrel especially. Everyone has their favorites! Thanks again for the mention from last week. I felt special when I read it. 🙂
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You should feel special. 😀 😀
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I do! 🙂
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Oh my gosh, the bird (eagle?) is AMAZING! The kitty is SO sweet! The squirrel, well, he’s a cutie 😊💙
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Hi Lisa, yes it’s an eagle. So glad you like my photos 😀
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oh these are wonderful
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Thanks Becky 😀
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Love the skwurrel & eagle 😃 Here’s mine, also featuring skwurrels: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2020/11/27/cbwc-close-ups/
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One from my experiments with unusual lenses photographing flowers and plants. In this case a fast portrait lens:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2020/11/27/variegated-hosta-leaves/
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OK, this week you had me petting my screen, Cee. Your animal photos are marvelous! ❤
And thank you for featuring my blog, you are too kind. * hugs *
Here's my entry for this week: https://figmentsofadutchess.com/2020/11/27/cbw-close-encounters/
Have a good one!
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The pleasure was all mine Marion. So glad you like the animals. 😀
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Is that a dandelion? and does that make it another animal photo?
My first challenge entry is now posted:
https://lifessights.wordpress.com/2020/11/27/cbwc_weatheredfencepost_post/
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LOL. I love your sense of humor with dandelion, Thanks so much for playing along 😀
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Wow! Your animals are awesome in black and white – the flowers too!
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Hello Cee
here are my Close Up pics
https://thomas-bedel.de/wordpress/blog/cbwc-close-ups/
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Lovely captures! The squirrel is the cutest… Here’s mine – https://myheart2heart.blog/2020/11/27/beautiful-in-black-n-white/
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Sweet cat shot!
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He just turned 20, which makes him like 96 in human life span. 😀
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wow!
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Great close-ups! Love the squirrel. I decided to NOT do any squirrels this time. Other things. Birds, dogs, and a young lady.
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Great close-ups! Love the squirrel. I decided to NOT do any squirrels this time. Other things. Birds, dogs, and a young lady.
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Your photos were so wonderful for this week. 😀
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Here is my contribution. https://scrapydo2.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/cbwc-close-ups/
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this is my contribution.
https://appeltjie.wordpress.com/?p=889
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Such striking images, Cee, but the pusscat is blissful :).
One shot from me today: https://tishfarrell.com/2020/11/28/iced/
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Great close ups, Cee. And it’s great to see the cuddly, hairy faces, rather than insects.
I’ve gone woody: https://ceenphotography.com/2020/11/26/cbwc-close-ups/
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You might get a stray bee or bug from me. But I really like bugs at all … they give me the creeps.
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https://appeltjie.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/cbwc-close-ups/
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Incredible close ups. you just get better and better!
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Aww thanks Dawn 😀
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These are wonderful shots, Cee. I especially like that expression you caught on the eagle. Wow!
My contribution:
https://oneletterup.com/2020/11/30/macro-monday-black-white-moment/
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https://weirdsareword.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/cees-black-and-white-photo-challenge-close-ups/
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