Close up of birds with selective colour. Rooster x3 and a chicken.




Greylag goose and Canada goose.
Close-ups for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More close-ups of birds, people, and things can be found here.

Close up of birds with selective colour. Rooster x3 and a chicken.




Greylag goose and Canada goose.
Close-ups for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More close-ups of birds, people, and things can be found here.


In 2015, my husband and I went to the Rugby World Championship in the UK. We saw two games: South Africa vs. Samoa in Birmingham, and South Africa vs. Scotland in Newcastle.
It was an unexpected and unlikely coincidence that we met a cameraman working for the SABC in Birmingham while sightseeing in town, a day before the game. It was quite unlikely that we would meet him again in Newcastle, this time with his whole team trying to catch interesting shots and interviews with fans, again a day before the game. But the cameraman recognised my husband with whom he had talked for awhile privately a week earlier, and so he came to be interviewed by South African television. But it was even more unlikely that a South African friend actually saw the clip, barely a minute long, tucked away in a late-night special human interest slot about the RWC.
But the most unlikely would be if we ever see people dressed up more patriotic than the South African fans on this day. The most impressive ones were the “cross dressers” – fans who combined Scottish and South African elements in their attire:
For The Daily Post: Unlikely.
More unlikely shots are linked here.
PS: Sorry, I can’t get rid of the second lot of picture. They don’t show up in editing mode.





Cee gave me the idea for this entry into her Fun Foto Challenge when she asked for outdoor ways to move up and down: outdoor stairs, ladders, hot air balloons.
I took these photos a few years ago when hiking in the Eifel, a part of Germany to the west of Frankfurt. The balloon came up and then descended in the valley in front of us only to fire up and get another lift.
More photos of outdoor ways to move up and down can be found here.


Another colour collage for Värikollasit. The colours of the Siberian squill, which in German is called Blausternchen (little blue stars). I happen to have a few in my own garden and they have just bloomed as they are spring flowers.

More collages with the same colours can be found here.

The eighteenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.

Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.


I’m just not in a wretched mood today. Neither was my friend who tried to copy the wretched facial expression of the statue and failed – miserably.
For One Word Sunday. More utterly miserable, wretched photos to be found here.




Stairs are paths, too.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More paths, streets, roads, etc. can be found here.





The prompt for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is two very different things or the number two.
More photos of twos can be found here.


A Kniphofia flower

and the real thing.
Orange is possibly my favourite colour. I also really like red hot pokers, tritomas, poker plants, Fackellilien (torch lilies), Kniphofias or knofflers – whatever you want to call them. How could you not like such a brilliant flower with such names!
Nancy over at A Photo A Week wanted to see some photos displaying orange. More orange photos can be found here.