Desert Weyr Blog

  • Cleaning Ditches

    Cleaning Ditches

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    I’m watching the trackhoe clean out the catch ditch from the shop window. This was the highest viewpoint I could do. Prompt: Make a photograph today of an interesting subject with as vertical or high a point of view as you can manage. Continue reading

  • Warm Room

    Warm Room

    Most bathrooms seem cold and sterile. I love our downstairs bathroom with its cedar shower stall. Prompt: Bathrooms are full of hard surfaces, textures, and personal implements. Find an inspiring photograph in a bathroom today. Continue reading

  • North Fork Horizon

    North Fork Horizon

    The grass is gone, and the trees are changing color. Our horizon view is always changing. Prompt: Make a photograph that emphasizes the horizon. It’s your choice whether to place it on the third lines or to center it. Continue reading

  • Cleaning the Barn

    Cleaning the Barn

    Red, green, and a lot of dust from cleaning out the chicken dust in the red barn. Prompt: Make a photograph that plays two complementary colors off each other today. Continue reading

  • Garden Bounty

    Garden Bounty

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    The simplest of garden pleasures: a lovely, vine-ripened tomato. Prompt: Simplicity is economy. Make the simplest photograph you can today. Take things out until you can’t remove anything else. Continue reading

  • Large Economy Size

    Large Economy Size

    This is one of the welders we use on the farm. Prompt: Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing? Try it today! Continue reading

  • Divider Fence

    Divider Fence

    This divider fence separates the orchard into the east and west halves. We use it to more easily limit how much grazing the sheep have. Prompt: Fences and walls can divide or demarcate. Make a creative photo of a fence or wall today. (@muffett68) Continue reading

  • Guilty Pleasure

    Guilty Pleasure

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    Bejeweled is my guilty pleasure. It’s mindless, but fun! Prompt: Make a photograph that shows an interpretation of your favorite indulgence or guilty pleasure. (@PrimalPhil) Continue reading

  • Banned Books

    Banned Books

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    The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is from September 25th to October 2nd. Here are just a few of the books on my shelves that have been banned at one time or another. How many times must we repeat this before we learn that banning ideas does not make them go away? Freedom demands… Continue reading

  • Symmetry

    Symmetry

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    Kona has nearly-perfectly-matching horns. It’s too bad he doesn’t like to pose very well. Prompt: Symmetry can be calm and soothing. Make a photo today featuring symmetry, either in subject or in composition. (@logista) Continue reading