Sunday Stills

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Sunday Stills is a place to hone your photography skills. Each week Ed issues a new “Challenge” that gives us the opportunity to pick up what ever kind of camera we own and try to meet the challenge.

I thought this would be an easy one. Water towers. I can see our local water tower from the upstairs of our house on a clear day. But we've had no clear days lately.


Yesterday, we had a social outing about 2 hours from home. The town that it was in has no water tower. Who'd of thunk? I thought all towns had water towers! On the way home, we had about 30 minutes of daylight & managed to get pictures in three different towns. I was disappointed because many of the angles I wanted were cluttered with power lines. But did manage to get a few shots worthy of this challenge.


This one even has a horse in it! It was quite interested in what I was doing initially, but then relaxed and continued to eat.

Comments

  1. Ed8:18 AM

    Great selections, very nice..:-)

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  2. Paula9:26 AM

    All good shots. I really like the first one. The cloudy skies make the blue coloring of the photo really pretty.

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  3. Holly9:46 AM

    clear or not, I like them.

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  4. MariesImages10:52 AM

    Lovely selection of images~

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  5. Anonymous11:00 AM

    Great job. I like the horse on top of the water tower. :)

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  6. Far Side of Fifty11:35 AM

    I liked the last one the best, the white horse and the barn in the background..make it a very interesting photo:)

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  7. Regular Guy1:02 PM

    Nice variety. I like the last shot for all of the other stuff to include the horse that you captured.

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  8. thecrazysheeplady4:47 PM

    Very nice.

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  9. flowerweaver8:47 PM

    A great selection of water towers!

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  10. Kelly1:13 PM

    The second photo is really neat. I haven't seen one like that!

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  11. Welcome To Wilmoth Farms9:15 PM

    The second picture is so pretty!

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  12. Laughing Orca Ranch11:23 PM

    Excellent water tower captures. And horses and water towers? Perfect!

    ~Lisa

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