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Looks to me like atmospheric distortion - the edges are uniformly blurry.  At that distance you can almost guarantee it will happen.

My wife loved giving tea parties for her friends and I was happy to help her set them up. https://pbase.com/cichallenge/image/173359852 I am in the middle of moving to a new apartment and so don't ...

It doesn't get much more abandoned than this.  Only sheep wander around it.

As a picture, I like the second one the best.  The first one is more hopeful and thus fits the challenge better.

In fact, it has two.

In my race to get this challenge posted before a noon appointment I forgot to update the links to the challenge galleries. (And there is no way to edit a post.) The correct links are: Eligible: htt ...

A picture for the Pending Gallery will show up soon.

CIC 239: Hope The Challenge topic is Hope.  The beginning of the year is always full of hope for what the new year might bring and, perhaps, that it will be better than the last year.  Certainly ...

Now if only I can remember where I put it ... I know that it is around here somewhere!

With the encouragement of so many of you, I have moved this into Eligible.

Since the tripod was still set up, I took a long exposure with a tight aperture to see if I could get some stars from the lights on the tree. The result is in Pending: https://pbase.com/cichallenge ...

It may not really look like a celebration to others, but it is for me,  I now have most of the house decorated for Christmas. https://pbase.com/cichallenge/image/173236257 Of course there's still ...

And a thread bump to encourage more entries. My wife always put out a lot of decorations throughout the house.  I am continuing that tradition, even though I am probably the only one who will see it.

https://pbase.com/cichallenge/image/173217339 I won't have anything in eligible for this challenge.  I don't get out to take pictures much anymore and I will not be celebrating much this year.

This, appropriately enough, is the Cold River in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.  The camera got too cold and the shutter wouldn't work properly.

It's been several days past the end of the challenge and I have not done anything with it.  In addition, I seem to have picked a particularly poor topic since, with one exception, there have only ...

I'm still here.  But I am still dealing with an intense personal tragedy and have not been able to give the thread the attention that it deserves.

The topic for this challenge is Around the House. What does that mean? Anything in, on, or near your dwelling is eligible. (Near will be interpreted rather broadly.) The challenge will end on ...

Thank you for picking my hummingbird picture. I will have a new challenge up as soon as I can come up with a topic.

https://pbase.com/cichallenge/image/173016139 Tuesday's trip to the Botanic Garden gave me a chance to take some pictures during the challenge period. All this flower needed was the raw conversion ...