






See asked for Black & White for her Fun Foto Challenge. I prepared this post before I saw her prompt – so my photos are not monochrome but of black and white subjects.
For more black and white fotos, click here.


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.



Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: reflections. For more reflective photos, click here.
The fifteenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.

Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.




Another two colour collages for Värikollaasit. More interpretation of the given colours can be found here.
White as the driven snow – which we are not having this Christmas. More white photos can be found here on Travel with Intent.





Oh, and I couldn’t leave without posting this one:

https://ceenphotography.com/2017/06/29/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-hands-feet-or-paws-2/
