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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 2d

Here's your cheat sheet for art challenges

October 6-12

Art challenge themes and hashtags.

Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social
#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges

Art challenges: October 6–12

Monday, October 6
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#Spooktober (#BlackCat)
#MagentaMonday

Tuesday, October 7
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#Spooktober (#lightning)
#TheCampfire (tell a story)

Wednesday, October 8
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#Spooktober (#zombie)

Thursday, October 9
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#Myth&Legend)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#Spooktober (#poison)

Friday, October 10
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#Spooktober (#vampire)

Saturday, October 11
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#glow)
#Spooktober (#spider)

Sunday, October 12
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#FrightNight)*
#Spooktober (#shapeshifter)

All Week
#31DayOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smARTIST (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekOforOpulence)
#SensoryArt (#shadow)

*Playful/spooky Halloween-inspired

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 1m

No worries! 😁

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8m

You're welcome!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8m

Interesting, and so special for you!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 28m

That's cool!

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 33m

That's a little girl for you. 😊

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gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 4h

Brooklyn
#photography

Building at night. The outside of the building is blue bricks. There’s light spilling out a window on the left. The windows on the right are reflecting red brake lights

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 37m

Exquisite.

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 6h

Kirsten 'Gander' (Revision, 2011) -- Even Though I Work Steadfastly In the World of Black & White Photography, I Still See Plenty of Color, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC

#ClassicMono ✨ #HumansOfBlueSky ✨

#Photography #Portraiture
#Monochrome
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

portrait of a young female irish-american model in vintage americana stole

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Sparty® @young-spartacus.bsky.social · 4h

'Reflect Refract'

Morning rain reflecting its environment on a Hypericum Androsaemum leaf. (St John's Wort)

Sparty 🌿💧

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ColorADay #RedWed #Macro #WaterWednesday #Nature #WindowsonWednesday #Art #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotoHour #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueskyArt #FineArt

$This photograph presents a compelling, close-up of a leaf, its surface glistening with numerous water droplets. The focus is sharp on the leaf and the moisture clinging to it, while the background is rendered in a soft, ethereal blur. The leaf itself appears to be from a plant with a robust, textured surface, possibly a holly or a similar species, given the small, sharp spines visible along its margin. The intricate network of veins is clearly defined, forming a crinkled, almost leathery texture that is highly visible beneath the water. The colour palette is muted and organic, dominated by deep, dark greens and earthy browns, which suggests an environment that is shaded and moist. The water droplets are the central feature of the composition. They are scattered across the leaf's surface in varying sizes, from tiny, almost imperceptible specks to large, spherical beads. Each droplet acts like a perfect lens, reflecting and refracting the ambient light and a distorted view of the surroundings. A particularly large, pear-shaped droplet hangs precariously from the tip of the leaf, its surface taut and ready to fall. This suspended drop is a focal point, capturing the viewer's attention and adding a sense of dynamic tension to the otherwise still image. The lighting is soft and indirect, from a shaded location, creating a gentle illumination that highlights the translucence of the water and the subtle sheen of the leaf's surface. The background, a beautiful wash of blurry, dark shapes and colours, enhances the macro effect and isolates the subject, allowing the viewer to appreciate the fine details without distraction. The overall feeling of the image is one of quiet serenity, capturing a fleeting moment of natural beauty after rainfall.$

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Humans of BlueSky @humansofbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

Join us Thursdays at #humansOfBlueSky, and repost this so more people join us
Show photos about friends and family, strangers, candid and portraits, weddings, birthdays, boudoir. Interpret as board as you can imagine. A celebration of humankind mosaic
keep track at▶️
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 43m

These are beautiful!

As a kid, I always envisioned fuchsias as being dancing fairies. 🧚🏻‍♀️

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 45m

Excellent image and story, Jason! 🖤

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Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · 3h

Evening #BlueSky 🫖 The cemetery should have been their final resting place,it wasn’t 😳 (alt for more) Have a great evening friends ☺️ #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographyOfBlueSky
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Spooktober #zombie #31DaysOfHalloween
#GraveYard #Cemetery #Undead #AltText #Ireland #Creepy

With our picture description we have a short tale of Zombie’s to fit tonight’s theme…

Our black-and-white photograph shows an old graveyard filled with tall, intricately carved Celtic crosses made of stone just outside the village where l live here in Ireland .

Moss and age spots mark the surfaces, and the carvings are worn by time. The tallest cross stands in the foreground, its circular design framed against a dark, almost night-like sky streaked with thin clouds.

Rows of other gravestones stretch behind it, some leaning, some half-covered in ivy. In the distance, thick yew trees loom, their dark foliage adding to the heavy stillness of the scene.

The atmosphere feels ancient, sacred — and quietly unsettling. Our picture is finished off with a pure white border frame. Now for our Zombie tale for this evening.

I call this…The Restless Earth

The night was moonless when the first sound came, a deep cracking groan from beneath the earth. The air was still, yet the ground trembled softly, as though something vast was stirring below the graves.

Moss crumbled from the crosses as the soil before them began to shift. A pale, dirt-caked hand clawed through the earth, followed by another.

The dead, long forgotten, were waking, eyes clouded, bones creaking with the weight of centuries. They rose not in rage, but in confusion, bound by whispers only the dead could hear.

The crosses glowed faintly in the darkness, their carved knots pulsing like veins of light, trying to hold the boundary between the living and the lost.

But the whispers grew louder, names being called, promises broken.

By dawn, the graveyard stood silent again. Only the disturbed soil and faint drag marks across the grass hinted at what had risen… and where it might have gone.

They walk still

Sleep well my friends.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 46m

Gorgeous shot! 🤩

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kkartphoto @kkartphoto.bsky.social · 2h

Welcome to the Anthracite Range in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado! 😀

You can never go wrong with the fall colors here & during summer it's wildflower heaven. Sigh....I love my state so much ❤️ #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Landscape #Photography #Fall #Autumn

A vast landscape view of the Anthracite Range in Colorado showing the colors of fall with the Aspen trees.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 49m

Wow, great image of the bogs!

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Margot Foley @mfoley25.bsky.social · 1h

Bandon is the cranberry capital of Oregon and where we live there are tons of bogs. beautiful cranberries for #ColorADay #RedWed and a drone shot my son took of the bogs in our area. read more in ALT.
#31DaysOfHalloween #Fall
#EastCoastKin
#WestCoastKin
#Oregon #PNW
#Photography

a large number of cranberries in different shades of red. Cranberry farming has been a commercial practice in Bandon since the 1890’s. Bandon produces the vast majority of Oregon's cranberries, and a substantial portion of the national crop. The harvest season runs from late October through early December. About 1600 acres of bogs around Bandon, many family-owned, produce around 30 million pounds of berries.

a drone shot by my son of the cranberry bogs in our area. Cranberry farming has been a commercial practice in Bandon since the 1890’s. Bandon produces the vast majority of Oregon's cranberries, and a substantial portion of the national crop. The harvest season runs from late October through early December. About 1600 acres of bogs around Bandon, many family-owned, produce around 30 million pounds of berries.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 1h

You're welcome!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 1h

There is a lot going on there!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 1h

I bet you are! 😂

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 1h

That's definitely a good thing then.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 2h

I'm glad you're feeling better, and good for you for drinking and eating lot of water.

I was more concerned that you were already in pain from the surgery, then to add the discomfort of a vaccine reaction on top seems like it's a lot for you to deal with. ❤️

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 2h

🙏🏻🫶🏻

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 2h

Totally understandable! As if there's not enough already going on!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 2h

Good afternoon, Jean!

I'm so happy for you to have rain! I suppose it might make it a little easier for you to spend your day inside resting.

That seems sort of crazy your doctor gave you a flu shot right after surgery...adding insult to injury!

I hope you start feeling better very soon! ✨🫶🏻🪄

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