Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: The colour orange.
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Tag: Ente
The art of driving
The Citroën 2CV is known in Germany and Austria as Ente ( = duck). It was built between 1948 and 1988 and if you have ever driven one, you will never forget it. The typical pistol grip stick shift baffles modern drivers even if they are familiar with ordinary manual gearshifts.
On the rear window of this one it says:
Ceci n’est pas une voiture – c’est un art de vivre.
This is not a car – it’s a way of life.
Only one thing left to say:
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to do with cars and trucks.
Short and sweet
In German, kurz means short. It is also a fairly common family name.
Ducks have fairly short legs.
Which normally doesn’t inconvenience them much.
For other species it can create an advantage or an obstacle, depending on the terrain and intention.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: things that are short.
Diving Duck
I am not an accomplished handicraft person but I dabble occasionally, mainly knitting and crocheting, sometimes sewing. Embroidery has never appealed to me greatly but a few years back I came across the concept of “free stitching”. It basically means a mix of stitches and materials.
This picture (the original is 100 by 50 cm) started when I found a piece of mother-of-pearl that was shaped like a beak and at the same time I saw an underwater photo of a bird diving amongst branches and various underwater plants. I took it from there and used beads, seeds, shells, leather, old earrings, ribbons, and whatever I could find. The longer I worked the more creative I got, overlapping buttons, crumpling up material, raiding my jewel case.
I had never before done anything like it, nor did I do something similar afterwards. By the picture holds pride of place in our bedroom.
Nancy at A Photo a Week asked for a photo of something that I am proud of having accomplished.
Other people’s accomplishment can be found here.
Mirror, mirror, …
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: reflections. For more reflective photos, click here.
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 15
The fifteenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
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