Orange Suits Me

Posted on March 6, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?.”

I love Orange!

Doolin, Ireland

Keukenhof Gardens, Lisse , The Netherlands

Botenmakersstraat, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Zaandyke, The Netherlands

King Cake

It’s strange I had to go to Europe to find it!

Plastic World

Posted on March 5, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

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This week Cee has challenged us to display blacks and whites of bits of plastics. Not to hard since much of our world is made of plastic these days. I thought of taking a photo of a container of Cool Whip. I just love my edible plastics. Instead I went for plastic things displayed at our town’s Fall Fest.

You can see how others met the challenge at

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Made Out of Plastic

Here is what I came up with:

Just about everything in this picture is plastic except the trees, the grass, and the woman.

This plastic choo! choo! is treated with an Infrared filter but I thought it was cooler than the B&W filter.

Black & White Wheel’s

Posted on March 1, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has challenged us to have some black & white pictorial fun with: WHEELS

Find out how others shot wheels at

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wheels

The world is full of wheels. There are spinning wheels.

There are cheese wheels.

There’s wheeling and dealing.

But there is one wheel that touches us all, the wheel of time.

Weekly Travel Theme: Environment

Posted on February 28, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Ailsa has challenged us with the word: ENVIRONMENT this week. To see how others met the challenge go to

Travel theme: Environment

Here are some pics of different environs from my archives

I come from a world of winter and pine forests.

When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff

And this year all the world has listened to the winter howl in our environment. Who says there’s no evidence of global climate change?

The bark at Torc

All that said I know the world will someday be green again!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bikes and Motorcycles

Posted on February 27, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has challenged us to have fun with: BIKES AND MOTORCYCLES

I don’t own a bike or a motorcycle but I have a few pics of them

After all my sister lives in the Netherlands and you cannot miss the bikes there!

You can find other bikes at

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/02/24/cees-fun-foto-challenge-my-favorite-things-chorus-2/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fav Things That Bite and Sting

Posted on February 18, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Cee is challenging us funly with the chorus of Favorite things this week. You remember it don’t you?

When the dog bites,

When the bee stings,

When I’m feeling sad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

Crossing over

And then I don’t feel so bad.

Now you try. Simply go to…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Favorite Things, Chorus

A Word A Week: Play

Posted on February 11, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Well here’s a challenge I haven’t taken in a while:

Sue gives us a word a week to photograph. This week her chosen word is: PLAY

See how others met the challenge at…

https://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-play/

Here is how I saw it.

And the graceful aires of the violin playing over the fields at Blarney Castle.

You can play dead.

You can be in a play

You can even play in a band.

Always remember… “When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. “
Linda Naiman

As I said earlier today, it’s all work and it’s all play if you enjoy it!

A Photo A Week :View

Posted on February 6, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

I haven’t been able to participate in Nancy’s challenges these last couple of week’s. Shoveling has kept me from blogging. But today I was determined to get back in on the action between snow storms. So Nancy’s challenge this week is to show :A VIEW

You can discover how others answered this challenge at

A Photo A Week Challenge: View

Here are my responses:

A view from the Cliffs Of Moher

The view from inside Blarney Castle

Thunderheads over the Lower Lake, Killarney

A promised View, Winchendon MA

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fav Things Verse Three

Posted on February 4, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Cee has challenged us to create a post from this prompt…

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, Silver white winters that melt into springs, These are a few of my favorite things.

I have no white- dress-blue-satin-sashed girls for this challenge. What I do have is a ton of silvery white winter. With two more feet of the slivery white wintry stuff ready to dump on my head I am really looking forward to the melting into spring thing.