Today I have the honor of serving as guest host for the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge. The prompt this week is glowing moments.
One of my earliest memories is of me sitting cross-legged in a darkened closet, awestruck by the glow cast from a jarful of lightning bugs. Though I don’t have pictures of that magical moment, I have captured many glowing moments since then.
A High Desert sunset glows with fiery colors.
While the rising moon shines in subdued tones.
Purple lupine flowers shine on a cool spring morning.
While yellow prickly pear cactus flowers absorb and radiate the warmth of summer.
A woman’s gentle smile glows in a room full of cool, blue lights.
While a young boy beams a smile on a warm sunlit day.
Pale fireworks cascade and scatter across dark skies.
While I gaze in awe at their fleeting light, like the lightning bugs of long ago.
Looking forward to your glowing moments
What glowing moments have been special in your life? Please share them in the comments. I’m looking forward to your interpretations of this prompt! 😀
Be sure to link your contributions to this post and include the lens-artist tag.
Many thanks to the regular team of Tina, Donna, Patti, Sofia, Amy, John, Anne, and Ann-Christine and the many guest hosts of this challenge. Your thoughtful prompts have inspired so many of us to share magical moments we have captured with our various lenses.
Special thanks to Donna, of Wind Kisses, for her “It’s Tricky” prompt last week. Many of you came up with fun “tricky” photos, including reflections, double exposures, artistic effects, changing the lighting, and offering a different perspective. It’s great to think outside the box sometimes.
Next week, Tina, of Travels and Trifles, will offer the prompt so be sure to visit her site and see her amazing photos.
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #244—Glowing moments
Great theme and photos!
Thank you, John! 😀
I love this so much, Siobhan. I can picture you with that jarful of lightening bugs. That sentence defines who you are ( at least the person I know through your blogging). You gave us lots of ways to travel through this prompt and I am going to work on it today. Thank you for joining us. The responses will be fun and varied. I love your fiery sunset, your moon rise, and how the rest is reflective of your life. Donna
Thanks so much, Donna! Yes, the close connection I have with nature began when I was a young child. I hope to see a lot of variety in the responses. 😀
You will, and you’ll love the love. I started on one direction and went off on a tangent. Lol. A glowing moment. Thanks again for the inspiration.
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I love this challenge and your photos, Siobhan. Your sunset is magical and the little boy’s smile definitely glows with happiness. Thank you so much for hosting!
Here’s mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/lens-artists-challenge-glowing-moments/
Thank you, Sofia! I look forward to seeing everyone’s responses. 🙂
Nice theme. I love that yellow of the cactus.
Thanks, Dawn! A special plant with long-lasting flowers in our garden.
This is such a great theme Siobhan. And wonderful images too. They’ve given me a lot of ideas, but right now my family is glowing with the preparations for my granddaughter’s wedding. Mine might be a two-parter.
Thanks, Anne! Sounds as though you will have many glowing moments very soon. Congrats! Two parts is fine – the more the merrier. 😀
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interesting and wonderful choice of images you have chosen for the challenge, I especially like the 1st and 5th.
here is my entry for this week, https://wp.me/pdALlZ-rs.
many greetings robert
Thanks so much, Robert! Thanks for participating in the challenge.
What a lovely theme and the pictures you have chosen for it! Will be back soon with my entry 😀
Thanks! It’s open to a lot of different interpretations. 🙂
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Wonderful theme, with all sorts of options. Here is my entry.
https://lifeinmyyears.com/2023/04/08/lens-artists-photo-challenge-glowing-moments/
Thanks, Paul! 🙂
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Loved your challenge Siobhan, as well as your post. I especially liked how many different types of examples you shared. My favorite it the little boy but they’re all wonderful. Thanks again for leading us this week!
Thanks so much, Tina! It was fun to come up with a challenge with many interpretations. The two people pictured are my kids, both adults now. 🙂
Nice photos.
I like the variation on display here. It’s a pleasant thematic connection that works well with all differing light levels.
Here’s mine for this one:
https://stupidityhole.com/2023/04/09/sun-pours-light/
Thank you and thanks for participating in the challenge! 😄
Such wonderful perspectives. Nicely done. That high desert sunset is especially stunning!
Thank you, Bonnie!
Great post, Siobhan, Love your images.
Thanks, Ana! 🙂
Linking Judy’s post
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2023/04/08/a-glowing-moment-for-lens-artists-challenge/
Thanks, Sofia!
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Great theme and beautiful glowing gallery
Thanks so much, Alison!
Love the fireworks 🎆 and Mum always had lupins in her garden. Happy Easter to you 🤗🌷🐣💗
Thank you! I love lupines, in my garden and in the wild. Happy Easter to you as well! 🐰
A delightful post Siobhan! I love the glowing smile of the little boy!
Thank you, Aletta! A glowing smile on a sunny day.
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Yours is a great challenge idea. I love that portrait of the lady in front of the blue lights, and especially like the moonlight’s glow!
Thank you, John! The blue lights picture was taken in the Guinness brewery in Dublin. Lots of opportunities for pictures of moon and sunrises from my yard. 🙂
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Thank you for hosting this challenge and for the beautiful photos, Siobhan!
Here is my contribution: https://florinpopa.eu/glow/
Thank you!
Very creative challenge topic. Memories are amazing. Highlights of our lives. Something like sitting in a closet with a jar of lightning bugs can last a lifetime. Great set of photos, showing life’s glow.
Thanks so much, Dan! Yes, those little moments can sometimes stay with you for a lifetime.
I’ve been obsessed with the thoughts of fireflies lately and I want to see them again. In Japan. The smile of the child truly gives anyone a warm flow.
Hope you get to see fireflies again soon! Yes, a smiling child brings out good feelings in us all. 🙂
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A lovely theme Siobhan! Your desert sunset is certainly glowing and I love the prickly pear flowers 😮 I’ve gone for a fairly literal interpretation: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-glowing-moments-around-the-worl/
Thank you, Sarah! I look forward to seeing your post.
A brilliant challenge – thank you for hosting! Lovely examples and beautiful photos. Love especially your story and the little boy. Here’s my entry.
https://lagottocattleya.com/2023/04/09/lens-artists-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thank you, Ann-Christine, and thanks for your post for this challenge!
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What a wonderful collection of glows: from the sky to people’s faces and from flowers to fireworks. Love them all.
A great challenge. I hope this response works: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/autumn-glow/
Thanks so much!
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Wonderful glowing photos and theme. My faves are the bright sunset and the rising moon.
Sorry but I accidentally tagged Tina for the post and I am not sure on how to take it off. Anyway, here is my entry https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2023/04/10/glowing-moments-in-budapest/
Beautiful images and glowing moments Siobhan and such a wonderful topic to play with! Our contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2023/04/10/haiku-sapphire-sea/
I am delighted that you inspired us this week, Siobhan. What a terrific prompt, photos, and memory (the lightning bugs). I always love your nature images, but your portraits are wonderful, too. That little baby….what an adorable smile. 🙂
Here’s a link to my post of glowing moments from recent trips with family. Your timing was perfect!
https://pilotfishblog.com/2023/04/10/lens-artists-244-glowing-moments/
Thanks, Patti! It was fun to host a challenge. 😁
Thank you for this lovely post and theme, Siobhan. Your tale of lightning bugs took me right back to Africa where we watched them patrol across the pool at Hunter’s Lodge:
https://tishfarrell.com/2023/04/10/in-an-equatorial-light/
I’m glad I could bring back some wonderful memories, Tish!
Thank you for guest hosting this week. It is such an honor and quite a responsibility as well. I love this theme, and your introduction really did throw the doors wide open for us to interpret!
https://lindylecoq.com/2023/04/11/lens-artists-photo-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thanks, Lindy! Glad you liked the prompt. 🙂
Gorgeous photos, SoyBend. I never knew what the purple flowers were called. Now I know they are lupines. They are beautiful. You have a great variety in this post. 🙂
Thanks, Marsha! Glad I could help ID the lupines. They come in a wide variety of colors, but the wild ones around here are all purple.
I saw some in PA at Longwood Gardens and took pictures, but did not take the picture of the label, LOL. The ones I have are pink and white. They are an elegant flower, aren’t they?
Yes! 😁
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Hello – I enjoyed this theme so far this week – and here is my entry
https://priorhouse.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/lens-artists-244-glowing-moments/
Glad you liked the prompt this week! Thanks for participating. 😁
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All of these glowing moments are just so amazingly magical. There is a certain spark in each of them, making them unique in their own way 🙂
Thanks so much! It was fun to come up with a prompt and photos. 🙂
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Your photos are wonderful for this week. You definitely got the “glow” in them.
Here is my entry for this week. I hope you enjoy.
https://bendbranches.com/2023/04/08/lens-artists-photo-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thanks, Cee! Looking forward to seeing your “glows.”
Here is the proper link. Your site is letting me back in today.
https://ceenphotography.com/2023/04/12/cmmc-march-granny-smith-apple-light-green-colors/
Thanks, Cee!
Siobhan, thank you for this great topic. There are lots of terrific shots in your gallery to inspire us all.
Thanks! Glad you liked the prompt this week. 🙂
Love your theme and examples you provided.
Love the sky, Sun and the lady with the glowing blue back ground.
Thank you.
Thanks! 😁 I tried to give lots of examples for how photographers could interpret the prompt.
My contribution
https://philosophyvia.photos/2023/04/12/go-with-the-glow/
Hello again Siobhan, our nature contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://tranature.com/2023/04/12/wordless-wednesday-small-blue-wonders/
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A fantastic challenge for this week, Siobhan 👏 The rising moon through the clouds shot is stunning 😃 Here’s mine: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2023/04/13/glowing-results-lens-artists-challenge-244/
Thanks, Jez! I’m lucky to get great opportunities to photograph moon rises and sunsets from my yard.
Love your ‘glowing moments’. Sharing mine… https://travtrails.com/2023/04/13/lens-artists-photo-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thanks for participating in the challenge!
Sharing…. https://travtrails.com/2023/04/13/lens-artists-photo-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
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It took long to finish my post but I finally did it Siobhan🙂. It’s here:
https://flightsofthesoul.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/lens-artists-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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Your photos are great examples of glowing moments – and I love the challenge because it’s about light, basically. So here’s my contribution: https://empireoflights.com/2023/04/14/downtown/.
Thanks, Tobias! In your very creative work, light is a main character.
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Thank you for hosting – here is mine for the week
https://norasphotos4u.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/lens-artists-challenge-3/
Thank you for hosting… a great topic for this week. Here is my entry
https://brashley.photography/2023/04/14/lens-artists-photo-challenge-244-glowing-moments/
Thank you and thanks for your lovely photo, Bren!
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Beautiful moments.
Thank you! 😁
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