Author Archives: Helen C

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About Helen C

A retired computer programmer who loves writing and photographing, and has managed to publish a YA novel "Jin-Ling’s Two Left".

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Posted on April 17, 2015 by Helen C

This is the third day of my Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. You can find the challenge rules from my first day’s post Here. I would like to invite Sarah Ferguson at Travels with Choppy to join the Five Photos, … Continue reading →

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Baby Gift

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Helen C

This is the second day of my Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. You can find the rules for this challenge from my first day’s post Here. I would like to invite Cee at Cee’s Photography Blog to join the Five … Continue reading →

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A Sweet Two

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Helen C

Cosme from bCL Photography invited me to participate the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge. I don’t remember what brought me to his blog, but I know I keep following his blog not only because he is a great photographer, but … Continue reading →

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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Close Ups

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Helen C

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Close Ups When I saw Cee’s Close Ups challenge, I thought of this photo and planed to post it before the week ended (challenge week). This morning, when I washed my face, I saw water … Continue reading →

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Print a Photo – How Hard Can It Be?

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Helen C

Our friend said that if we had some good photos from Arizona, he would use a couple to decorate his house. I was thrilled. I’ve always considered our photos as “office art” – the one that you may hang in … Continue reading →

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Heimie’s Haberdashery

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Helen C

We went to St Paul downtown last Friday. As soon as we parked the car, my husband started teaching me a new word “Haberdashery”. I had no idea why suddenly this word became important for me to know until we … Continue reading →

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful Monotones

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Helen C

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful Monotones I often study clouds, trees… anything in front of me, wondering if my mother has left me a message somewhere. Isn’t that how we communicate… between the two worlds?

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One Photo Focus Challenge

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Helen C

Once a month, Stacy at Visual Venturing has this One Photo Focus challenge. She would pick a photo, and everyone would edit and submit it back to her, and then she would post all the editing results on her blog. … Continue reading →

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My 1000 Photos Project

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Helen C

I have mentioned that I wanted to start a new project on my recent post Scottsdale Trip, Blogging, and My New Project. At that time I called it “Look! You are Beautiful”. My goal was to take photos of many … Continue reading →

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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Music – People, instruments, sheet music, audio devices

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Helen C

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Music – People, instruments, sheet music, audio devices In my previous post, Adhika at Lo and Behold had commented that if I’m going to show S’s face partially, maybe a 16:9 aspect ratio might be … Continue reading →

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