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Synecdoche

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earth

A synecdoche is a figure of speech by which a part stands for the whole.

This was true when I posted this bee to stand for the whole “earth” – the topic for The Daily Post’s photo challenge from 19 April 2017.  One of my first photos for this challenge and one of my personal all time favourites.

Now this one photo stands for all the other photos which I have submitted to this challenge.

I think it is a worthy goodbye.

For more favourites and final goodbyes to The Daily Post, click here.

 

 

Golden liquid

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This is one of those accidents that turned out well.  I was photographing a blackbird taking a bath and then it flew away.  The deserted stone well (sic!) looked as if it contained not water but liquid gold.

For The Daily Post: liquid.  More liquid photos can be found here.

Well, it happened …

Lothar interviewed by the SABC

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.

Can you read between those lines?

The Daily Post wants photos with a composition dominated by lines this week, hard or soft, straight or curvy, vertical or horizontal.  Here are two contribution, hard and soft, straight and curvy, vertical, horizontal and diagonal:

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147 lines (640x480)

For more lined photographs, have a look here.

 

 

Smile on Chuckles

Smile on Chuckles

I didn’t know her but this plaque on a bench overlooking Roker Beach in Sunderland made me smile.  What a great way to be remembered – by passing your smile on to complete strangers.

This is for The Daily Post asking for smiles.