This week’s Sunday Stills photo challenge theme is “Bucket List images.” What exactly do I mean by this? A bucket-list image is that person, place, or thing you want to photograph before you kick the bucket!
As a participant in the Sunday Stills photo challenge, this is your chance to share new and old images that constitute your bucket list. As a photographer, what do you hope to capture with your lens?
Bucket Lists consist of:
- destinations and travel experiences,
- seeing iconic monuments and landmarks,
- experiencing events, new food and drink
- personal and professional challenges.
“When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.” – Ryan Tedder
You can share your current or new images that qualify for making your bucket list, whether you visited a new place, took an extraordinary photo that you are proud of, or saw a celestial sight, etc.
OR…
You can also share any from your archives or use images you have shared before. It’s been almost six years since I’ve used this theme, so I’m sure I have many more to contribute as examples.
Cosmic Coincidences
“In the silence of the night sky, I find the answers to my questions.” – Unknown
The northern lights in 2024 (so far) were intense and exciting and visible from our property! After viewing them on May 10th for hours …
… I longed for another chance to shoot them with a person in the image. I got that chance on September 16th.
Our amazing sun threw out another HUGE Coronal mass ejection (CME) on October 10, exactly five months later. Seeing the aurora in the darkness of the North Cascades of northwest Washington was a bucket list item I didn’t know I needed to check off. And the light bands played on in silence.
In Awe of Wildlife
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
The image below demonstrates the lucky capture of the Great Blue Heron, a bird on my bucket list. Despite the peacefulness of the scene, the heron’s raucous squawk broke the silence, which caught my attention just in time to catch it winging away.
Since we’ve lived in Eastern Washington, my photographic bucket list has included moose, bald eagles, and elk.
Earth’s Rock Music
“Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
It was beyond wonderful to check these three amazing places off my bucket list. Our road trips from Eastern Washington to Arizona took us through Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. We’ll be driving this way again later this year. Walking through Lower Antelope Canyon was a bucket-list item several years in the making.
Close-up and Personal
“Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.” – Sark
As a photographer, I love shooting close-ups and macros. From March through September, birds and bugs abound. I caught the bumble bee with my cell phone, and my Lumix FZ300 camera caught the tiny blue-dotted butterfly and dragonfly.
It was indeed another bucket list item checked off to see not one but two active bird nests in our backyard last spring/summer. But witnessing Mama Phoebe feeding her nestlings from our bathroom window was extraordinary. These Phoebe images were taken with my Lumix.
We were happy to see the violet-green swallows finally rent out the birdhouse, and I was ecstatic to see the baby swallow about to fledge! (This was Captured with my Samsung Galax S23 Ultra.)
And then there is the photo op that you don’t expect!
I am still trying to photograph an owl and lightning to add to my list. You do know that bucket lists keep growing, and the bucket never really empties, right?
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 13 years ago.
To all of my blogging buddies: Thank you for inspiring me with your photos, stories, poems, and creativity. On October 31, 2011, I took the plunge and began my blogging journey. Little did I know that photography would become my lifeblood or that I would have countless virtual friends in the blogosphere. I’ve lost count of how many of you I have met in person.
Sharing for several challenges this week: Brian’s Last on the Card, Hammad’s Weekend Sky, Johnbo’s Cellpic Sunday, and Lens-Artists: Silence
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post. Please use your own original images, whether new or from your archives.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
I can’t wait to see how you interpret this week’s theme! Creativity is encouraged, so please share your own photographs (old or new), poems, original short stories, and music inspired by the theme. Join me next week as we explore COZY.
“Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.” – Annette White
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