Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Black & White

This week, Cee has chosen Black & White as the colors for her Fun Foto Challenge. These days it’s relatively easy to convert images to black & white provided you have the right picture. Finding pictures of things that are primarily black & white without doing any kind of manipulation was rather more difficult but here are some random shots that seemed to fit the bill.  I took several pictures of the young man playing the xylophone but although this one wasn’t necessarily the best, I chose it because I noticed that the woman crossing the street behind him was also wearing a black & white shirt.

For more on Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge go to Black and White

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Wheels

This week, Cee has us on the move with wheels for her Black & White Photo Challenge. Here are a few wheels that we’ve seen during our travels, starting with a tractor at Willow Springs Garden in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Wheels on a canon at the Fort on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Wooden wheels on display at the Wade House historic site in Greenbush, Wisconsin.

The water wheel at Graue Mill in Oak Brook, Illinois.

A couple of vintage wheels at Bluesmobile Cruise Night in Mount Prospect, Illinois.

And finally some snappy wheels for the bride and groom to make a quick getaway from their reception in Indianapolis, Indiana.

For more on Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge go to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wheels

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – Signs

This week, Cee has us looking for signs for her Black & White Photo Challenge.  Plenty of signs in the photo files but this first image, taken on Sunday, is the most recent.  Neidhammer’s in Indianapolis was the venue for our grandson’s wedding celebrations (more on that in a future post.)

Chicago museums provided two images for this challenge; the first at the Adler Planetarium and the second at the Chicago History Museum.

Plenty of signs along the main street on Mackinac Island in Michigan.

A sign with an important message at the American Lung Association Walk at Hamburger University in Oak Brook, Illinois.

For more on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge go to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Signs

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Delta – The Passing of Time

Erica, at The Daily Post, asks us to share our interpretation of the passing of time for the Weekly Photo Challenge, and what better way than using time itself.  Going through the photo files I found that there were many images that included clocks, watches and various other methods of telling the time including these sun dials, the first two, at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the third, the Millennium Sundial on John T Myers  Pedestrian Bridge, in Lafayette, Indiana.

Time spent in Wisconsin, at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers and at The House on the Rock in Spring Green.

Time as a focal point in Mitchell, South Dakota, historic downtown Long Grove in Illinois and Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Time and architecture in Elk Grove Village in Illinois, Bartholomew County Courthouse in Columbus, Indiana, and at the race track and the Village Hall in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Classic timepieces at the Stephenson County Historical Museum in Freeport, Illinois, Cuneo Mansion in Vernon Hills in Illinois and Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

Time waits for no man, not even at Scooby’s Hot Dogs in West Chicago, State Street in downtown Chicago or at the Elgin History Museum where many timepieces made at the Elgin National Watch Factory are featured.

For more on the Weekly Photo Challenge at The Daily Post go to Delta

A Photo A Week Challenge – Threes

This week, Nancy Merrill is asking us to look for groups of three for her Photo A Week Challenge.  Having found plenty of twos for Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge, I realized that coming up with threes was not going to be quite so easy.

Three sea lions at the zoo.  This picture was taken some years ago and I’m having a hard time remembering where but I think it may have been at the zoo in Indianapolis.

Three beautiful blooms at the Orchid Festival in the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Three naked ladies, part of a fantastic music machine at The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Three pelicans preening on the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa.

 

Three jockeys entering the enclosure before a big race at Arlington Park, Illinois.

Three koi swimming in a pool at Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois.

For more on Nancy’s A Photo A Week Challenge go to A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – Glass

The subject for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is glass and going through the photo files I came across a few items that I thought might work. It’s funny how, when you see the theme for a certain challenge, you wish you’d taken pictures of some things you’d seen that would have been great! Oh well!  If only we could see the future as easily as we can see through glass.  For more on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge go to https://ceenphotography.com/2017/02/09/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-glass-2/

Chihuly artwork at the Visitors Center in Columbus, Indiana.

Too much time on my hands; this was a photographic experiment that I set up on a dreary day just for something to do.

A stained-glass window from the former Ottawa Street Methodist Church which is now part of the Joliet Area Historical Museum.

Glass ceiling at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Glassware on display at The House On The Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Paperweights on display at The Art Institute in Chicago.

A Word A Week Photograph Challenge: Arch

An archway with a view of the gardens at the Cuneo Mansion in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

It doesn’t have to be as enormous as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to find its way into my photo files. Arches come in all different sizes and are built for many different purposes, so here, in response to Sue Llewellyn’s Word A Week Photograph Challenge on A Word In Your Ear at http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-arch/ here are a few arches that have caught my eye whilst out and about with the camera.

An arched doorway to the Portiuncula chapel on the Peabody Estate in Mayslake.

Lazarus And The Rich Man, an arched sculpture created by Aaron Benson, in Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park.

The arched entryway to the old City Hall in Columbus, Indiana, which at that time had been converted to an hotel and which now, I believe, stands empty.

An arched gateway, decorated with glasswork created by Dale Chihuly, at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

The arched entryway to the old Chicago Stock Exchange building on display outside the Chicago Art Institute.

Travel Theme: Round

Once again I have fallen behind with my challenge responses but although this one is a week late, I would still like to offer my take on Ailsa’s Travel Theme challenge on Where’s My Backpack? at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/04/18/travel-theme-round/ which was the subject Round.

The title for this stainless steel and bronze sculpture by Rob Lorenson, in Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, is Apple Rocket.

Little granddaughter, carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders outside Kohl Children’s Museum in Glenview, Illinois.

Someone else carrying a heavy burden; a snow sculpture at the old Randhurst Mall in Mount Prospect.

On display at the Chinese Lantern Festival in The Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis.

This sculpture entitled ‘Discovery’ by Kusser Granitwerke, located on the campus of Indiana University/Purdue University in Columbus, Indinana, includes a globe weighing more than 2,000lbs which is held suspended by 12 pounds of water pressure.

Travel Theme: Pink

This week Ailsa’s Travel Theme challenge on Where’s My Backpack? at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/03/21/travel-theme-pink/ is Pink.

These pink fringed blooms were part of a colorful display of tulips at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show last week.

Pink hollyhocks by a stone wall at Spring Mill in Mitchell, Indiana.

Pink flowers (not sure of the name) in the Heritage Garden of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

The pink walls of the Cuneo Mansion in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

Pink sky at night, shepherd’s delight.

A Word A Week Photograph Challenge: Waiting

Sue Llewellyn’s Word A Week Challenge on A Word in Your Ear at http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-waiting/ is Waiting.

These ladies were waiting for the arrival of a very important visitor at the Hindu temple in Bartlett as part of the festivities to celebrate India’s Independence Day.

The Knights of Columbus, forming a guard of honor, were waiting for the procession, which included Francis Cardinal George, to pass by as it made it’s way through Grant Park in Chicago.

A driver with his carriage waiting for his horse to get some much-needed refreshment at a water fountain in Indianapolis.

Ladies from the Ballet Folklorico waiting to perform on stage at the Gale Borden Library in Elgin.

A lady in period costume waiting with a team of horses at Old World Wisconsin.