Author: eklastic

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An Unusual Colour

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We saw a lot of bougainvilleas during our holiday in Cyprus. This one was a rather unusual colour, more an orange hue than the more common pink varieties.

For Floral Friday and Flower of the Day

for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday

Monochrome Gallimaufry

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Cee’s Black & White Challenge together with Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge was the first challenge in which I participated. So it’s with a heavy heart that I am saying good-bye to CBWC. I learned a lot about monochrome photography (as I generally did from Cee’s Challenges). Like many (I suspect) I take my photos almost exclusively in colour and only give it a monochrome, selective colour or desaturated treatment afterwards on my PC.

Cee has asked for our favourite monochrome photos so I went back and browsed through eight years of monochromes and picked a few.

If you have a black cat you have to feature it in at least one monochrome photo. So here is Henry as a toddler five years ago:

Talking of young ones, here are two:

and another one, this time not in black and white but in sepia:

As well as a whole bundle of littlies:

This one of a tapir is one of my favourite whimsical photos:

Sculptures often lend themselves well to monochrome treatment. My personal favourite is this shot of the well muscled back of the god Pan:

I usually don’t like robbing flowers of their colours but there is always the exception to the rule:

Most of the time, however, I can’t make up my mind:

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Finale

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Sideways Queue

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I’m not really back from holidays. I don’t want to be back. But I peaked in today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt and I couldn’t resist sharing this photo. It’s a queue. A queue of flamingoes. They did come closer to our resort’s beach and I will show photos of them at a later stage. But how could I resist this prompt?

BTW: The fly by (actually quite a few fly byes during half an hour) was spectacular.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Queue

Fly, Baby, Fly!

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… up up in the sky!

I had no plans on taking part in any challenges next week. We have a very excited grandson here who is waiting avidly for his holiday with his dad and his grandparents beginning on Sunday. There will be a lot of firsts for him: first time going south, first time at the seaside, the Mediterranean in fact, first time in a non-German speaking country (except for a short weekend with a border hop to France), and the first time on a plane.

We will be leaving Frankfurt – flying over the only city in Germany who has something akin to a skyline.

Our plane will probably not be as colourful as those two:

Since we will be inside it doesn’t matter.

We will be up in the air, leaving only a jet stream behind.

Which may look like this if the virgin passenger can’t stop wriggling excitedly in his seat:

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Sky Is the Limit

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