Obsessive/compulsive was the challenge.  A hard one for me since you can see I'm not that.  I didn't notice the diagonal lines on the mat were off center until I was uploading the photo.  

This week's challenge was chair.  At first Ricky wanted abstract and then changed it to any chair.  I put an old metal lawn chair in the yard and hoped for snow to make ridges to photograph across.  It didn't snow very much so this is what I was left with.  So the shot straight down was much more interesting.   

 The challenge this week was called Flat Lay, items arranged and then shot from above.  I "borrowed" the stones from the shop's neighbor.  I think this reminds me of those fossils that they cut in half and polish.   I guess now that the photo is done, I need to take the stones back to the neighbor's tree ring.  

 The challenge was long exposure. I tried limbs blowing in the wind but it was too windy.  I only ended up with a smear.  So tried night across the Pomona Dam.  The camera wouldn't work and went back to the house and then it worked.  Went north a mile and waited and waited for a car to come buy.  Finally Dennis drove down the road and turned around and drove past me so that I wouldn't freeze to death waiting for traffic.  Good sport. 

 The challenege this week is pick a word for the year and depict it in a photo.  I decided on Explore.  Explore new techniques and photo sites. 

 In looking at last week's, it looks like I only do sunrise and sunset photos.  This week's challenge was celestial.  I was going to try a night photo but with 45-55 mph winds, the tripod wouldn't hold still enough.  So I used the sunset photo I did earlier in the week.  

 The challenge this week was "silence".   This was just before sunrise one day this last week.  Dennis called on his way to work and said to look to the east.  I went out in jammies to take this one.