Theme Challenge - SUNRISE

[Cassel]

I always had a hard time remembering which spelling was which. So I created myself a visual mnemonic:

• the "ee" looks like two eyes, so it refers to "looking"
• the "A" in "peak" is like a mountain, so it refers to "the top"

Now, I think I am good!

[Sue Thomas]

  On 4/3/2025 at 12:25 PM, Cassel said:

I always had a hard time remembering which spelling was which. So I created myself a visual mnemonic:

• the "ee" looks like two eyes, so it refers to "looking"
• the "A" in "peak" is like a mountain, so it refers to "the top"

Now, I think I am good!

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Bravo!  You summed it up simply perfect, that even my little girls would know the difference between the two words.  It did cause some controversy though, which I had not anticipated. By  slightly changing the sentence, one word in fact,  the word peak was correct.   I have never done, nor known any proof readers, but surely they  look for more than  just spelling mistakes.  Such as Grammar,  punctuation for instance in the context that it is written . 

Edited April 3 by Sue Thomas

[Anne Lamp]

  On 4/2/2025 at 11:04 PM, Sue Thomas said:

I'm  relieved that I didn't  offend or upset you,  as it wouldn't have been my intention. I'd  like  to think that any errors I  may make, would be brought to my attention, and greatly appreciated.  At what altitude  were you when you took those  photos?

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The summit of Haleakalā, a volcano on the island of Maui, stands at10,023 feet (3,055 meters) above sea level    and I suspect I was close to that. 
 

[Sue Thomas]

  On 4/3/2025 at 3:51 PM, Anne Lamp said:

The summit of Haleakalā, a volcano on the island of Maui, stands at10,023 feet (3,055 meters) above sea level    and I suspect I was close to that. 
 

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I can only imagine through your photos, what an experience it must have been. 

[Susan Ewart]

  On 4/3/2025 at 9:06 AM, Ann Seeber said:

I asked my go-to expert, Copilot, about our use of the word "peaked" or "peeked" and here's the response: 

"The distinction between "peaked" and "peeked" is subtle but significant:

Peeked: This word means "to look quickly" or "to glance." It's associated with a brief, often secretive act of looking. For example:

• Ann peeked around the corner to see if her cats were playing.
• Adam and Eve peeked into Brandy's food bowl when they thought Ann wasn't watching.

Peaked: This term is about reaching a high point or climax, whether literal or metaphorical. It’s unrelated to "looking." However, people sometimes misuse "peaked" when they intend to say "peeked," likely due to the similarity in sound.

For clarity: "She peeked through the curtains" describes a quick act of looking, while "His interest in documentaries peaked during his teenage years" refers to a period of highest engagement.

Do you think these examples would make it clearer for others, too? I know you're quite detail-oriented."

and that's my final word. 🙆‍♀️

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Loved your examples, especially Adam and Eve.  Yup, my best (weight)lifting days peaked in 2019!  I peeked through the blinds to see if there are birds in the yard and saw the neighbours cat...peeking can be a good thing.  Echo was chased off gently (a tap on the window does it), after all, I also want my yard to be friendly to all who need to use it.  Thanks for the lesson.  You wouldn't believe how bad I am a using "big" words and get corrected, I just laugh now.  I often think I should just stick to one-syllable words.  And lastly, what can you do about my horrible math skills?

[Susan Ewart]

This is one that was based on a technique Marie-Claire had shown in the forums and some of us were so impressed we tried the technique.  It's a technique I now use often when sending a digital greeting to someone.  I really was grateful she had shown hers.  This was not a spectacular sunrise, just one I found at the time quickly from my files.  

[Susan Ewart]

here is a sunrise from 2017.  I dont have a lot of sunrises, mostly I have sunsets.  At sunrise I'm generally working out so I miss them.  Now that I have equipment at home I can stop and see the sunrise.  

this is from the Word Frame tutorial .  it seems the fall/winter are good times for crazy colors. 

[Rene Marker]

  On 4/3/2025 at 5:34 AM, Susan Ewart said:

I have seen the show.  My husband works at a large tire warehouse and they load mining tires on the trucks that are destined for the ice road.  

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I learned a lot about living in the "wilderness" of the northern hemisphere from that show. I could never do it so I give those who do so much credit. As for the truckers, they deserve every bit of pay they get for putting their lives on the line with ever ice road run they make.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 4/3/2025 at 9:06 AM, Ann Seeber said:

I asked my go-to expert, Copilot, about our use of the word "peaked" or "peeked" and here's the response: 

"The distinction between "peaked" and "peeked" is subtle but significant:

Peeked: This word means "to look quickly" or "to glance." It's associated with a brief, often secretive act of looking. For example:

• Ann peeked around the corner to see if her cats were playing.
• Adam and Eve peeked into Brandy's food bowl when they thought Ann wasn't watching.

Peaked: This term is about reaching a high point or climax, whether literal or metaphorical. It’s unrelated to "looking." However, people sometimes misuse "peaked" when they intend to say "peeked," likely due to the similarity in sound.

For clarity: "She peeked through the curtains" describes a quick act of looking, while "His interest in documentaries peaked during his teenage years" refers to a period of highest engagement.

Do you think these examples would make it clearer for others, too? I know you're quite detail-oriented."

and that's my final word. 🙆‍♀️

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For not native speakers like myself this is a great explanation of the difference and I hope to remember it when I want to use one of the two!

[Corrie Kinkel]

After all the linguistics it is time to go back to the topic of this month: Sunrise!

In my immediate surroundings I have no opportunity to see a nice sunrise, sunset however is easy to see from our upstairs window. But I witnesses a great sunset when I visited my family for the first time in the US. At that point they were living in Washington State in the greater Seattle area and I was there in January/Februari 2020 (just before and at the outbreak of Covid). One morning while we were having breakfast I went to the kitchen to fetch something and there was a glorious sky to be seen. My son in law and I went immediately to get our phones and took several shots. The trees and buildings in the front were still dark but the Cascades mountain range was clearly outlined. For this layout I used cass-CurlyLines script and one of the freebie gradients from the blogpost that had identical colors as the sunrise in my photo. The sunrise part of my photo is blended with a the gradient to get a background paper. Then a layer with one of Anna Aspnes edges. Fonts are Nomadic Dreams and Ranch  Hand Three. Place and date are on a roadsign that I made for a photoalbum from that trip. 

[Ann Seeber]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:34 PM, Susan Ewart said:

Loved your examples, especially Adam and Eve.  Yup, my best (weight)lifting days peaked in 2019!  I peeked through the blinds to see if there are birds in the yard and saw the neighbours cat...peeking can be a good thing.  Echo was chased off gently (a tap on the window does it), after all, I also want my yard to be friendly to all who need to use it.  Thanks for the lesson.  You wouldn't believe how bad I am a using "big" words and get corrected, I just laugh now.  I often think I should just stick to one-syllable words.  And lastly, what can you do about my horrible math skills?

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Not my idea! Those examples came from the MS Copilot AI chatbot. I'm sure I mentioned the cats in a previous question to it, and it seems it remembers everything! I kinda like that I get personalized answers in paragraph form but with reference numbers if I wanted to find the sources. 

[Ann Seeber]

  On 4/3/2025 at 7:37 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

After all the linguistics it is time to go back to the topic of this month: Sunrise!

In my immediate surroundings I have no opportunity to see a nice sunrise, sunset however is easy to see from our upstairs window. But I witnesses a great sunset when I visited my family for the first time in the US. At that point they were living in Washington State in the greater Seattle area and I was there in January/Februari 2020 (just before and at the outbreak of Covid). One morning while we were having breakfast I went to the kitchen to fetch something and there was a glorious sky to be seen. My son in law and I went immediately to get our phones and took several shots. The trees and buildings in the front were still dark but the Cascades mountain range was clearly outlined. For this layout I used cass-CurlyLines script and one of the freebie gradients from the blogpost that had identical colors as the sunrise in my photo. The sunrise part of my photo is blended with a the gradient to get a background paper. Then a layer with one of Anna Aspnes edges. Fonts are Nomadic Dreams and Ranch  Hand Three. Place and date are on a roadsign that I made for a photoalbum from that trip. 

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Beautiful, Corrie! I don't recall seeing sunrise or sunset when I was on the west coast. I do have a little story about it. One of my go-to tv shows was Murder She Wrote, which was filmed in my daughter's town, Mendocino, CA, which is right on the coast. They filmed the sunset, as the coast faced west, but wanted to run it backwards for the show to simulate sunrise. When they did that, a surprise seagull showed up winging along backwards! We got a good laugh out of it. 😆

[Susan Ewart]

  On 4/3/2025 at 7:37 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

After all the linguistics it is time to go back to the topic of this month: Sunrise!

In my immediate surroundings I have no opportunity to see a nice sunrise, sunset however is easy to see from our upstairs window. But I witnesses a great sunset when I visited my family for the first time in the US. At that point they were living in Washington State in the greater Seattle area and I was there in January/Februari 2020 (just before and at the outbreak of Covid). One morning while we were having breakfast I went to the kitchen to fetch something and there was a glorious sky to be seen. My son in law and I went immediately to get our phones and took several shots. The trees and buildings in the front were still dark but the Cascades mountain range was clearly outlined. For this layout I used cass-CurlyLines script and one of the freebie gradients from the blogpost that had identical colors as the sunrise in my photo. The sunrise part of my photo is blended with a the gradient to get a background paper. Then a layer with one of Anna Aspnes edges. Fonts are Nomadic Dreams and Ranch  Hand Three. Place and date are on a roadsign that I made for a photoalbum from that trip. 

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This is fabulous Corrie.  Incredible sunrise and really good use of that script (I'm going to put on my wish list for the birthday buying spree).  the background is really cool, I studied it for sometime, super effective at framing the layout and focusing the eye to the centre.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 4/3/2025 at 2:21 PM, Sue Thomas said:

Bravo!  You summed it up simply perfect, that even my little girls would know the difference between the two words.  It did cause some controversy though, which I had not anticipated. By  slightly changing the sentence, one word in fact,  the word peak was correct.   I have never done, nor known any proof readers, but surely they  look for more than  just spelling mistakes.  Such as Grammar,  punctuation for instance in the context that it is written . 

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Holy man, my grammar is pretty scary and can cause some interesting confusion in communication.   It's like that book called "Eats Shoots and Leaves".  Where you put the punctuation can be the difference between what a panda eats (shoots and leaves)  and a psycho-killer (has a bite to eat, shoots people, and leaves the scene).  It's amazing we can communicate at all, there is too many rules.  A guy I once worked with showed me funny thing:

Tri-weekly   (occurring or appearing three times a week)

Try weekly (try something on a weekly bases)

Try, weakly  (not trying very hard)

All sound the same, but all mean very different things.  

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 4/3/2025 at 8:04 PM, Susan Ewart said:

This is fabulous Corrie.  Incredible sunrise and really good use of that script (I'm going to put on my wish list for the birthday buying spree).  the background is really cool, I studied it for sometime, super effective at framing the layout and focusing the eye to the centre.

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Thank you so much, this means a lot to me coming from you! It is really a very simple layout but that sunrise speaks for itself and didn't need anything else.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:47 PM, Susan Ewart said:

here is a sunrise from 2017.  I dont have a lot of sunrises, mostly I have sunsets.  At sunrise I'm generally working out so I miss them.  Now that I have equipment at home I can stop and see the sunrise.  

this is from the Word Frame tutorial .  it seems the fall/winter are good times for crazy colors. 

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This one has fantastic colors!

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 4/3/2025 at 8:18 PM, Susan Ewart said:

Holy man, my grammar is pretty scary and can cause some interesting confusion in communication.   It's like that book called "Eats Shoots and Leaves".  Where you put the punctuation can be the difference between what a panda eats (shoots and leaves)  and a psycho-killer (has a bite to eat, shoots people, and leaves the scene).  It's amazing we can communicate at all, there is too many rules.  A guy I once worked with showed me funny thing:

Tri-weekly   (occurring or appearing three times a week)

Try weekly (try something on a weekly bases)

Try, weakly  (not trying very hard)

All sound the same, but all mean very different things.  

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Language is beautiful, isn't it!

[Susan Ewart]

  On 4/3/2025 at 8:26 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

This one has fantastic colors!

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thank you so much.   Sunrise happens so quickly it seems, sometimes I look out and think I should go get the camera and I do, but when i get back, it's changed and not as good as it was.  

[Sue Thomas]

  On 4/4/2025 at 4:54 AM, Susan Ewart said:

thank you so much.   Sunrise happens so quickly it seems, sometimes I look out and think I should go get the camera and I do, but when i get back, it's changed and not as good as it was.  

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The  window is small to capture sunrise and sunset shots, as the sun moves quickly, and the quality of light changes rapidly, due to atmospheric conditions. The light is  at it's most dramatic just before it peaks the horizon at sunrise, and after it dips at sunset.  At this time the sun  is low, and the light is scattered, creating a beautiful, diffused glow.  I always arrive early to capture the best light. I often look for locations with interesting foregrounds, and backdrops that compliment the monring and evening colourful event, on the prairies, that can be difficult to find.  You can never take to many shots at each  magical hour, as you will never capture the same shot twice.  The golden or magic hour period, creates stunning images, with rich colours and dramtic shadow.  Mother Nature truly is  remarkable! Today there are mobile phones which have sophisticated cameras, which take stunning shots.   For me I Love my  DSLR bridge camera. In my opinion, there isn't  a better start to the day,  than to enjoy  a spectacular  sunrise.

Edited April 4 by Sue Thomas

[Susan Ewart]

  On 4/4/2025 at 7:31 AM, Sue Thomas said:

The  window is small to capture sunrise and sunset shots, as the sun moves quickly, and the quality of light changes rapidly, due to atmospheric conditions. The light is  at it's most dramatic just before it peaks the horizon at sunrise, and after it dips at sunset.  At this time the sun  is low, and the light is scattered, creating a beautiful, diffused glow.  I always arrive early to capture the best light. I often look for locations with interesting foregrounds, and backdrops that compliment the morning and evening colourful event, on the prairies, that can be difficult to find.  You can never take to many shots at each  magical hour, as you will never capture the same shot twice.  The golden or magic hour period, creates stunning images, with rich colours and dramatic shadow.  Mother Nature truly is  remarkable! Today there are mobile phones which have sophisticated cameras, which take stunning shots.   For me I Love my  DSLR bridge camera. In my opinion, there isn't  a better start to the day,  than to enjoy  a spectacular  sunrise.

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That is a nice explanation of the best times to photograph sunsets and sunrises.  It's been some time since I tried to capture any of them.  I work mid-afternoons to evening and usually miss the sunset.  Or rather while I'm working I can see part of it out the window and know that I'm missing it yet again.  One exciting thing on one of the empty lots across from my work has gophers (I think that's what they are) out now.  They looked funny being out while thereis still snow on the ground.  I've worked there 11 years and it wasn't until last year I noticed them on the several empty lots around my work.  They really blend in to the grasses around them.  

[kasany]

It was a real sunny show. We can see it hardly ever:) Clouds were there as courtains, the SUN was a main actor. I still admire JK's reflex/fast action:))))))

[Julie Magerka]

A topic I have a photo for! Back in January last year, we had a spectacular sunset followed the next morning by an equally amazing sunrise. The pix I took are not good, but the colours are wonderful.

I wanted to keep it simple b/c I can't do it any better than Mother Nature.

The frames are from Katie Pertiet. Used a mask from ET Designs. Fonts are Tuce and With Summer. A couple of splatters and the clock from Anna Aspnes.

[kasany]

  On 4/4/2025 at 4:40 PM, Julie Magerka said:

A topic I have a photo for! Back in January last year, we had a spectacular sunset followed the next morning by an equally amazing sunrise. The pix I took are not good, but the colours are wonderful.

I wanted to keep it simple b/c I can't do it any better than Mother Nature.

The frames are from Katie Pertiet. Used a mask from ET Designs. Fonts are Tuce and With Summer. A couple of splatters and the clock from Anna Aspnes.

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Realy super colors!!!!:))))))

[Sue Thomas]

  On 4/4/2025 at 4:40 PM, Julie Magerka said:

A topic I have a photo for! Back in January last year, we had a spectacular sunset followed the next morning by an equally amazing sunrise. The pix I took are not good, but the colours are wonderful.

I wanted to keep it simple b/c I can't do it any better than Mother Nature.

The frames are from Katie Pertiet. Used a mask from ET Designs. Fonts are Tuce and With Summer. A couple of splatters and the clock from Anna Aspnes.

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You captured the  vibrant colours, I  love the silhouette trees.  Layout  is lovely.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 4/4/2025 at 4:40 PM, Julie Magerka said:

A topic I have a photo for! Back in January last year, we had a spectacular sunset followed the next morning by an equally amazing sunrise. The pix I took are not good, but the colours are wonderful.

I wanted to keep it simple b/c I can't do it any better than Mother Nature.

The frames are from Katie Pertiet. Used a mask from ET Designs. Fonts are Tuce and With Summer. A couple of splatters and the clock from Anna Aspnes.

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Very nice colors in the frames that fade out! The clock is a nice addition too.