It is with sadness that I share with you the loss of fellow UHHer "Lorima" (Lorina Michelle Adkins) on August 13th. Many in this thread knew Lorima and her distinctive photo style. She was only 57 and had battled cancer for many years. She was born in Christ Church, NZ, and lived in Colorado with her husband and two sons (of whom she often spoke or posted). Lori was known for her love of family, baking, flowers, horses, nature and her photography. She was a sweet soul who came up with some extremely creative images and always an encouraging comment on the posts of others. As I recall, she also loved Disney World and traveled there with family during a time of remission.

In May 2022, Lorima hosted a challenge on birds. I had been reviewing the 2022 challenges and realized I'd not see Lorima in quite a while so, as one of her FB friends, I went to her page and that's how I learned she had passed. I searched through her UHH posts and have selected several of her images that are testament to her talent and some of the subjects she loved.

Part 1:

We've reached the last day of 2022 - already!! A time of reflection. I pulled together some interesting (to me) statistics related to the challenges.

The challenges began as a "picture a day challenge" Jan1, 2012 with this post by Photogrl57 (not our Lesley AKA Photogirl17)

"Not sure how long this will last but I decided to challenge myself and make at least one photo everyday this year of something I normally wouldn't shoot.
So here is my first entry ....
I was out hiking in the mountains today and this tree just spoke to me. Not sure why LOL.


Feel free to post yours if you are up to the challenge."

January1, 2023 will be the 11th Anniversary of what is now known as "The Challenges". The format has undergone many changes

In 2022, we hosted at least 57 challenges (not including Free Sunday). Categories included topics that fell into one or more of the following categories: Nature/Scenic/Seasonal, Still Life, Techniques, Creativity, Architecture/Art, Colors/Letters and 3 "NO HOST" Half of the topics were related to developing/improving/attempting a photographic technic.

There were:
5 people who hosted on a regular basis (9-13 times and Larry who did 40+))
10 Who hosted once during the year
4 who hosted for the first time

Thank you to everyone who helped out. You are appreciated and needed to keep the challenges going.

In these 11 years we had 3 Photopaloozas in which a number of us met up, met each other and shot together. #1 was in Denver and hosted by "RiverNan", "SHer", and Georgette. #2 Was in Portland Me hosted by yours truly with help from "Bushido"(Richard), Judy Juul, "Clicker" (Sharon) #3 was in Phoenix hosted by PJ (Kelly) Reed

And that's how we began

I am attaching the January Calendar Congratulations everyone! SO many of us have become "cyber family"!