Thursday Trios
Tag: boats
I’m a fan of ships’ names
A challenge a few days ago asked for “freedom” and a photo of a ship popped up on my screen. It got me thinking on names for ships and boats.
Freedom
Vici
Ships named after concepts: Freedom and Vici (Latin: I conquered).
Jessica
Tim
To be fair, the last one could be a girl’s name. Traditionally girl’s names have been popular for boats: Jessica and Tim. Not necessarily confined to girls nowadays, it seems.
Susan Emma Rose
More girls: Susan, Emma, and Rose. Or appropriate for Stratford-upon-Avon – Shakespeare characters: Hamlet, Othello, and Puck.
Boats can be named after friends or indulgences: The Black Cat and Laphroaig.
subito
Kurpfalz
Foreign or very local: Subito (Italian for fast) and Kurpfalz (both travelling on the river Neckar).
South Carolina
Atlanta
From further afield: South Carolina and Atlanta – both to be found on the river Rhine.
Seas The Day
Not to forget star signs and plays on words: Aries and Seas The Day.
Linked to I’m a Fan of … #71. More fanatical photos can be found here.
Holy Five
Excuse the pun in the title – this is for Thursday Special: Pick a Word and I tried to get a photo which satisfies all 5 in one go AND it is a photo from Holy Island (Lindisfarne) off the coast of Northumberland.
Setting – well the hue of the photo suggests it was close to sunset.
Nubilous – slightly fuzzy, not very clear, it definitely is, due to zooming in so close, and the lateness of the day.
Motley – very much a motley collection of boats on an untidy looking beach at low tide.
Growth – maybe a slight stretch but the ruins of the old priory look to me as if they were growing out of the soil.
Nautical – no comment needed.
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Drei mal drei macht neune 🎵🎶
This time it is Cee’s introduction to the rule of thirds – which harks back to the golden ratio.
Here are some simple versions of the rule of thirds – all taken in Northumberland – where the picture is divided by three lines, more or less dividing it into equal vertical stripes.
And now for something completely different – NOT. The same principle but from a very different landscape (the Odenwald in Southwest Germany) and in very different colours.
Back to the see with a rusty detail. It is often not so easy with automatic cameras to focus on a subject which is off centre – often this can be rescued later on with cropping.
This cat – Louis by name – shows off the rule of thirds to his advantage, the eyes are in the upper left field and are the obvious centre of this shot.
His mate Charly presents two focal point – his eye and his nose, in the upper right and lower left field of the photo. Both focal points vie for attention, the nose through its light pink colour but the eye with his intensive looks take the prize.
This is one of my favourite photographs with a model that posed like a pro. Again, the rule of thirds is displayed in the horizontal lines, the more solid lower one, the upper one being less obvious one, as well as in the main focal point of the photograph, the head of the seagull.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #9 Rule of Thirds Introduction
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