Author: eklastic

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Memories

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I don’t have photos from the 1980s when we went on a walking safari in the Okavango. The dugouts dropped us on the largest island of the delta and the accompanying ranger looked for elephants. He soon found a small herd and we crept closer, keeping upwind. We were possibly 300 metres away from them when they noticed us. They started to move away and the ranger shouted: “Up and at them!”. We all started racing towards the fleeing elephants who picked up speed. While doing that the only thing I could think was: “What am I doing? What if they turn round and start chasing ME?!”

They never did, luckily. They were just faster than us and soon disappeared from those pesky, insignificant humans.

FOWC with Fandango: Safari

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The Voice of the Garden

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The word hum is related to the Middle High German hummen and thus to the modern German Hummel – meaning bumble bee. Fun fact: While bees need at least 10 °C to be out and about bumble bee workers fly already at 6 °C because the vibration of their pectoral muscles vibrate to generate heat. Which in turn makes the fairly loud humming noise of bumble bees.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hum

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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