Linda Sparks
Profile
Retired and playing around. Lots of new interests developing to add to all the old ones I still pursue. Photography is taking over my life—shooting, processing, learning, etc. etc. Recently widowed and coping better with photography.
If you are a full or part-time resident of Green Valley, Arizona join our new group, Visual Artists of Green Valley
You can Bubblemail me or any of the hosts for an invitation.
All images are copyright © Linda Sparks. The materials contained may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or downloaded in any way, shape or form. All rights are reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the Artist is strictly prohibited
View my work by topic by clicking on these links:
reflections
portrait
color
arizona
landscape
Featured Member
The Compact Group 12/09
Tables and Chairs 11/09
Streams and Stream Crossings 11/09
Mountains Across the Globe 10/09
Statues and Such 10/09
The World As We See It 9/09
Focus and Lighting Group 9/09
The Compact Group 9/09
#1 Artists of RedBubble 8/09
I Love Birds 5/09
Scavenger Hunt 6/09
Random Photography 6/09
The Wild West Show 8/09
Challenge Winner (tie) in Black/White, Antique, Sepia People Portrait Challenge, The World As We See It 12/08/09
Featured in Cowboy/Cowgirl 11/18/09
Featured in The Compact Group 11/14/09
Featured in Country Bumpkin 11/11/09
Featured in #1 Artists of Redbubble 11/2/09
WINNER and AVATAR in Crumbling Facades Challenge, Full Frontal Facades 11/21/09
Challenge Winner for December Avatar in Live and Let Live Group 11/-3/09
Challenge Winner (tie) in Happy Holidays Challenge, That’s Entertainment Group 11/8/09
Challenge Winner, November Avatar, The World As We See It 11/03/09
Featured in People and Portraiture 9/9/09
Challenge Winner, All the Colors of the Rainbow, Unique Buildings of the World 9/19/09
Featured in Focus and Lighting 8/22/09
Challenge Winner Black and White Avatar in The Compact Group 9/4/09
Top Ten in Black and White Patterns, Shapes and Patterns Group 9/15/09
Featured in Shameless Self Promotion 8 /13/09
Featured in Focus and Lighting 8/2/09
Challenge Winner in Women in Uniform Challenge in The Woman Photographer 8/11/09
Challenge Winner of August Avatar in Mature Men 8/4/09
Featured in Mature Men 7/5/09
Featured in Retired and Happy May 09
Challenge Winner Harbours Retired and Happy 7/6/09
# 53 Features in Nov
- 68 Features in Oct
- 58 Features in Sept
- 70 Features in Aug 09
- 45 Features in July 09
- 15 Features in June 09
Here are a few of my favorites that made a number of other folks smile.
Challenge Winner in Chimneys in Bricks, Blocks, Tiles and Mosaic Mania (Avatar) for 9/09
Featured in Windows and Doors 8/30/09
Featured in Retired and Happy 8/28/09
Featured in Full Frontal Facade 8/27/09
Featured in Unique Buildings of the World 8/26/09
Top Ten Hats Challenge in Random Photography 9/8/09
Top Ten Lost in the Crowd Challenge, The Woman Photographer 8/31/09
Featured in The World As We See It 10/12/09
Featured in Out of the Past 8/18/09
Featured in The Wild West Show 8/14/09
Featured in Retired and Happy 8/13/09
Featured in The Sisterhood 8/12/09
Featured in Feminine Intent 8/11/09
- Challenge Winner of Best Windows and Doors in Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence 7/27/09 Group Avatar for July/August
Top Ten Best of Featured Orange Invite Challenge in Color Me a Rainbow Group 7/29/09
Top Ten Reflected August Challenge in Reflections in Building Windows 7/30/09
Featured in #1 Artists of RedBubble 8/30/09
Featured in Full Frontal Facades 8/29/09
Featured in Cityscapes and Skylines 8/16/09
Featured in JPG Cast Offs 7/24/09
Featured in Reflections in Buildings 7/24/09
Featured in Color Me a Rainbow 7/23/09
Featured in The World As We See It 9/27/09
Featured in 50+ Group 9/27.09
Featured in Strictly Human Faces 9/16/09
Featured in Visual Artists of Green Valley 9/14/09
Featured in Men Appreciation 9/13/09
Featured in Cowboy/Cowgirl Art 9/13/09
Featured in Rising Stars 9/30/09
Featured in Visual Artists of Green Vallley 9/28/09
Featured in That’s Entertainment 9/28/09
Featured in Point and Shooters 9/26/09
Second place in Avatar Challenge, Horse and Rider 9/20/09
Featured in Digital Art Compilations 9/8/09
Featured in Digital Photography 8/30/09
Featured in Textured Landscapes 8/28/09*
Groups
Linda Sparks hosts Unique Buildings Of The World and Visual Artists of Green Valley -- 3 a day and is a member of All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Yellow Gallery, ! 100% !, "Exceptional Ekphrasis", "Old Things - 3 per Day", "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), "Top Ten", *Focus and Lighting*, 4 Winners Only, 50+ GROUP, A Fascinating Purple (75% Purple), A Place To Call Home, Abstract Realism, All About Flowers, All About Rodeos, All About Water, All Animals Great And Small., All Around the Styles, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, All In, "Editing", All Original Blends, All That is Nature (Photography Only), All the Colors of the Rainbow, AMERICA's National Parks and WILDLIFE Habitat, American Southwest , Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Animal Kingdom, Anything and Everything FUN, Architectural Details, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, Arizona, Artistic Feminine Photography, At the edge, B&W - Character - People Shots, Beautiful Colorado, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Bits and Pieces , Black & White Photographers Showcase, Black and White Photography, Boredom Competitions on the 24/7, Bricks, Blocks, Tiles and Mosaic Mania, Bringing a Knife to a Gun Fight, Bubblers' Weekly Challenge, Cards: Best of Your Best, Cee's Fun Artsy Friends, Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Collage and Landscape photography, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: RAINBOW [No Flowers]), Colorful Colorado, Colour and light, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Communities (NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES OR CLOSEUPS OF PERSONS, PLACES OR THINGS!!), Contemporary Architecture, Country Bumpkin, Cover Shots, Cowboy / Cowgirl Art, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Digital Artists United, Digital Modern Portraiture, Digital Photography, Dilapidated Buildings, Dimensions, Drive By Shooting, Ebony and Ivory, Enchanting Powerful Photo Manipulation (2 per day), Entrances (Archways and Doorways), Equine Art and Photography, EQUINE ATHLETES, Equine Portrait Photography, Everyday Life, Everyday Women, Extreme Close-Ups, Fabulous Flowers, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, FEATURED ONLY, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Fine Art of Landscape Photography, First Things, Flower and Foliage DETAIL - 1 per day (24 hours), Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, FROM THE EARTH - Jewels, Gems, Shells, Rocks & Fossils, Full Frontal Facades, Gorgeous Flower Cards, Graphic Editing 101, Historic Places *2 per day*, History, Hombres Fatal, Horizons, Horse and Rider , Horses at Work - Geared up.., Human and Nature, I Love Birds, Images & Ideas, ImageWriting (2/24), JPG Cast-Offs, Just Brown, Just Lines, Just Pure Nature., Lakes and Inland Waterways *one* per day, focal point - the water!, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Latin Flair, Layered with Texture, Light and Reflection 1/24, Light up My Life (all about lamps), Live and Let Live, Live, Love, Dream: , Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Made In Digital, MASTERS OF THE SCENIC, Mature Men, Mature Woman, Men Appreciation, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Mother Nature's Finest, Mountains Across the Globe, Mountains and Mountain Light, Natural Textures, Nature's Wonders, No More Color, Nostalgic Art and Photography, One Single Flower On Show.. 2 Photo's per day, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Out of the Past, Passionate About Vintage, Photo Manipulators, Photography - Rule of Thirds, Photography Challenge Group, Photography Fun, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Point and Shooters, Portraits in Natural Light, PostCard Style (Describe your image please) Limit 2 per day), Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Quarter Horses, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Reflectivity, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Rising Stars , Rocks and Stones, Rustic, Safe Haven, Scenery, Seasonal 'Scapes, Selective Coloring, Sepia Only, Sets of Two, Shadows & Reflections, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Simple by Design, Simply Horses, Skyscapes, Skyscrapers, Snow Days, Solo Exhibition, Speaking Photos (Storytelling) - 2 per day -, SPIRIT, Spirit of the Native American, Square Photography , Stairs and Staircases, Statues and Such, Strictly Human Faces , Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence!, TABLES AND CHAIRS, Textured Landscapes, Textures Unlimited, That's Entertainment! (Fun & Recreation Photos), The 100 - 499 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The Black and White Enthusiast, The Compact Group *ONE* per day with *camera details please*, The Great Outdoors or Uninhabited lands of the World, The Grunge Art Gallery, The Human Condition, The power of simplicity, The Scavenger Hunt, THE SISTERHOOD, The true beauty, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography 2 per 24 hour limit, The Wild West Show, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, The World As We See It , or as we missed it., Those Colorful Paints (APHA) and Pintos, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art, Tuesday Afternoon, TUTORIALS (Help and Advice forums), United States, Unlimited Quality, Urban Art , Vibrant and Vivid Color, Visual Texture(no pornography,nudes or offensive works), Wall of the World , Weekly Theme Challenges, Western United States Artists and Photographers, What A Shot ( READ RULE"S), Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, and roadways, Who are YOU to Judge?, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Windows and Doors, Woman Appreciation and Your Country's Best (2 images per day).
Journal Entries
Thanks for the Features
Posted 2 months ago, 5 comments so far.
Thanks for the Features
Posted 2 months ago, 10 comments so far.
Thanks for the Feature
Posted 2 months ago, 4 comments so far.
Features and such
Posted 5 months ago, 4 comments so far.
