The Fun Was in the Doing

Another year over, another challenge (partially) done. Again, the fun for me was matching the images I made to the themes in the challenge; it was never about getting all 365 themes. A sincere thanks to everyone who left comments.

Thanks again to Julie (who's blog is apparently no more) for creating the list.

Here are links to the 365 Challenge Themes I posted images for:

1. 100

3. A Movie Title

4. A Pair Of ...

5. Abandoned

6. Abstract

9. Advertisement

10. Aged

14. Artificial

17. Baby

18. Baby It's Cold Outside

19. Backlighting

24. Bent

25. Beverage Of Choice

27. Black & White

28. Blue

29. Bodies of Water

33. Break The Rule Of Thirds

34. Breakfast

35. Bridges or Tunnels

36. Broken

37. Building

39. Candlelight

40. Candy

41. Canine Companions

42. Celebration

43. Celestial Bodies

46. Chalk or Chalkboards

49. Chores

50. Circle

53. Clocks

55. Closely Cropped

56. Clouds

57. Clown

61. Companion

67. Costume

68. Cross

71. Curly

72. Curvy

73. Cutlery

74. Dangerous

76. Dirt

78. Distorted

82. Eating Establishments

83. Eight

84. Empty

85. Entrance

86. Environmental Portraits

88. Eyes

92. Famous Authors

94. Fasteners

96. Feathered or Feathers

98. Fences

103. Flowers

105. Follow The Leader

107. Footwear

109. Foreign

111. From Ground Level

112. From The Sea

114. Fruits of the Season

115. Furry

117. Gap

119. Gatherings

122. Girl

123. Go Fish!

124. Goal

127. Grass, Turf, Lawn

129. Green

132. Growing

133. Grumpy

136. Hair

139. Hands

141. Hangs On A Wall

144. Hats

151. Home Is Where The Heart Is

153. How About This Weather?

155. Imperfect

157. In My Neighborhood

159. Inspiration

160. Intersection

162. Jumping, Leaping, Bouncing

163. Kids These Days

164. Kite

165. Landscape

166. Larger Than Life

168. Law Enforcement

169. Leaves

170. Legs

171. Letters

172. Lines

173. Living The Green Life

174. Local Landmark

175. Logs

176. Look Alikes

177. Looking Down

179. Magical or Mystical

185. Minimalism

186. Mismatched

187. Monotone

188. Monuments Or Memorials

189. Moving

190. Multiples

192. Musical Instrument

193. Musically Inclined

196. Navigational Aids

199. No Exit

201. Not Your Mother's Tongue

208. On The Road

209. On The Water

211. Oops!

212. Open

213. Orange

221. Outdoor Seating

223. Pair

226. Passion

227. Past Its Prime

229. Paws

231. Perfect Alignment

232. Photograph

233. Photographer

234. Pink

235. Places Of Worship

238. Portrait

239. Power

244. Public Transportation

246. Purple

250. Rainbow

251. Razor Sharp

254. Recycled

255. Red

256. Reflections

259. Repeating Pattern

261. Risky

266. Rusted

268. School

273. Seeds

274. Selective Focus

275. Sense Of Motion

277. Seven

278. Shades of Gray

279. Shadows

281. Show Us Your Bokeh

282. Sign, Sign, Everywhere A Sign

283. Silhouette

284. Silly

286. Skeletal

287. Skin

288. Sleepy or Sleeping

292. Snow or Ice

293. Solitary

295. Something Missing

296. Song Lyrics

298. Spiral

301. Stairs

304. Stop The Action

306. Stripes

307. Stuck

311. Sunrise, Sunset ...

312. Sweets

313. Swim

316. Teeth

318. Tent

319. The Games We Play

323. The Wild Side

324. There's No Place Like Home

325. Things That Go

326. Things with Wings

333. Tower

335. Transparent

338. Triangle

339. Trio

340. Turkey Or Fowl

341. Two

342. Underneath

343. Unfinished

344. Up On Top

345. Upside Down or Inside Out

348. Vapor

350. Wall

351. Warnings

352. Watch

353. Water

354. Water's Edge

356. What Am I?

357. What's For Dinner

358. What's Inside?

362. Windows

363. Winter

365. Yellow

365 Theme 165: Landscape

I spent a few hours at the Great Swamp NWR yesterday.

It was bleak.

It was quiet.

It was cold.

It was snow covered.

It was empty.

It was wonderful.

I was in the middle of one of the most populated places in the United States. And I felt completely alone.

You can read about the Great Swamp NWR here and here.

(And afterwards food and friends at the NJAS Citizen Science holiday party. Where is was nice and warm. :-)

365 Theme 3: A Movie Title

Dum dum, dum dum, dum dum ...

365 Theme 268: School

A somewhat more traditional aquarium scene.

365 Theme 284: Silly

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Scuba Santa!

(At the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ.)

365 Theme 115: Furry

Milkweed seeds, sparkling in the afternoon sun.

365 Theme 175: Logs

In waiting.

365 Theme 139: Hands

When Oreo looks out the window, or goes hopping about in the back yard, she might wonder about the tree with the curious red leaves. Each hand print is that of a volunteer at the Rancocas Nature Center. Mine is up there somewhere, can you find it?

365 Theme 229: Paws

This is Oreo. Oreo lives amongst all the artwork shown in the prior three posts. Do you think it helps make her feel at home?

365 Theme 350: Wall

The back wall in the mens room at the RNC. Painted by different artists then those who did the window. (The first bit of volunteering I did at the RNC was to paint this bathroom. Less than a month later they repainted it with this. All my work for nothing!)

365 Theme 362: Windows

Not quite the view out the RNC classroom window. Painted by two teenage girls as a volunteer project.

365 Theme 14: Artificial

If only they were all that easy. The ceiling of the RNC classroom. (Click here for larger version.)

365 Theme 343: Unfinished

The day, not yet done.

365 Theme 333: Tower

A great blue heron watches the sunset at Sandy Hook from an osprey tower, the ospreys having headed south.

365 Theme 179: Magical or Mystical

From romance to werewolves the full moon has long been considered both. Even today the full moon is (incorrectly) invoked to explain all manner of things, "must be a full moon tonight" we say.

365 Theme 187: Monotone

Well, two tone if you count the black. Another twilight shot at Sandy Hook.

365 Theme 78: Distorted

Geese over Sandy Hook at twilight.

365 Theme 67: Costume

His first. He wasn't quite sure what was going on.

365 Theme 39: Candlelight

A rather ineffective guardian of halloween treats as they were all gone by the end of the night.

365 Theme 133: Grumpy

And so might you be if you were poked and prodded (by my niece and nephew) or bugged by the paparazzi (me) or bugged by real bugs (note the ant on the right foot). Although a quick flick of the tongue could deal with the ant, no?