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Thursday’s Special: Enchanted
This is a castle called Hrad Devin near Bratislava, Slovakia. I will show you more of it in one of my forthcoming posts. The speckles in the image are not the sensor dust, but many insects that saturated the air by the Danube. As a matter of fact, the day I visited Devin will be remembered as the day I first swallowed a live fly.
If you would like to participate in Thursday’s Special themeless (non)challenge, feel free to grab my Jupiter widget bellow and provide a link to this post in your post especially designed for this occasion. More details here.
You absolutely have to check out the incredible entries for this week’s TS:
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Thursday’s Special: Enchanted
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La Seu Cathedral, Palma de Mallorca
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Alluring magnetism
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Why Have Wings At All?
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Thursday’s Special: Grounded
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Tasty aye?😨
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Horrific!
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This is a tantalising glimpse of the castle – I look forward to seeing more.
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Agree with Debbie. Looking forward to see more.
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You’ll see how dull the sky was, and pictures are dull too, but it is exciting to see new places even if it means swallowing a fly or two 😀
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Dull skies are always a problem when photographing places… I have a lot of photos with dull skies. Sometimes you can make something interesting out of it later in Photoshop/Lightroom, but usually I just don’t bother.
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I was hoping this over-editing was interesting enough 😀
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😀 Thanks Debbie, you may be up for disappointment. I hate going to new places and climb hills only to find out that visibility is crappy. Still, I am happy I visited Slovakia and I find it pretty exotic though I am not planning on going back 😀
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Thank you, Debbie. I posted more on Monday 🙂
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Beautiful but eerie! Think of the fly as extra protein! 🙂
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I don’t mind protein, but who knows where it had been before it landed in my mouth 😀
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😆 Good one!
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Wow, what a view! I’d love to visit but will pass on the fly. 😉
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In that case you should aim at other than summer season. I am sure the place looks far more appealing in Autumn or early Spring 🙂
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Not only do I like the image Paula but the fact that the sky was thick with insects is fascinating. I will confess that as a cyclist insect swallowing does happen from time to time. I’ve also had a bee get inside my helmet. I think I’ll take the insect swallowing. 🙂
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😀 I understand – a bee under helmet while on road can be fatal.
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Definitely could be if one panics and cycles into traffic. I stayed calm, stopped and set the bee free. 🙂
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The imagination is really sparked with this photo, there is such an ominous atmosphere here!
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Thank you so much Barbara 🙂
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My contribution for this week, Paula ! We are on the same wavelength, of course. 🙂
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You do extremely well under pressure 😀 It must be cause of all your experience of movie sets? Well done and a big thank you for your offering, Margaret-Rose 🙂
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Another startling image, Paula. Composition is unorthodox and it exudes atmosphere: starkness against that amazing sky.
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🙂 cheers Meg :). Are you getting used to being at home now?
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Not quite, although I walked along the beach with a friend and a dog called Latte yesterday. Thank goodness for the anchorage that is friends.
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Impressive architecture – very well captured… 🙂
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Thanks a bunch, Drake 🙂
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🙂 Cheers my friend 🙂
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Here is my special for the week: http://travelwithintent.com/2014/08/21/time-warp-persistence-memory-dali-florida/
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What an exquisite bench, Debbie 🙂 Thank you kindly for this offering.
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Ugh! I’ve done that. It’s gross! (fly swallowing) 😦
Wonderfully atmospheric music to fit your photo, Paula. Hope the week has calmed down a little for you.
I think my Thursday post might have gone with your Enchanted theme this week but I was too impatient to wait and find out what the theme was. I love it! 🙂
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Glad you like it Jo 🙂 I must juggle at work now, sneaking in to see the posts.. the work is heating up even more. talk later xx
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An interesting castle. Are you allowed to climb up the top?
Not sure about the insects though. Not nutritious enough for this dragon. 🙂
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No, it was closed. 🙂
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It certainly does look enchanted. I really like the way you have processed the image.
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That’s very nice to hear, Suzanne. Thank you 🙂
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You swallowed a fly?! Gulp. You must have felt a bit horrified! I like the scenery in your photo – enchanted is a good word for it.
Here’s a submission from me for this week:
Why Have Wings at All?
http://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/why-have-wings-at-all/
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Much appreciated Babsje 🙂 Nice to have you back 🙂
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Thanls, Paula, good to be back. Seems that lately the rhythm of my life doesn’t have me posting on Thursdays, but trying to do something about that. 🙂
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As long as you are fine, don’t worry….
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Thank you! Have a lovely weekend, Paula, perhaps in anothere enchanted spot.
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Stunning image, and such dramatic music, Paula. The insects in the air make it difficult not to swallow or breathe in one or two now and then. As my granddad would have said, “It’s extra protein.” 🙂
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This castle looks like what I would expect from that era. Looks all mysterious with many secrets hidden in it walls. Did you manage to go inside Paula?
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It was closed at the time of my visit.
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What a pity 😦
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Not really. I wasn’t in the mood for any more flies any way.
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Impressive view, really!
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Thanks
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Such an enchanting place Paula. What a beautiful shot! Don’t feel bad. Here we have nuisance flies or ‘muggies’ as well call them and in the summer they are all over. Like hubby said the time I swallowed one : ‘Don’t fret. You just had a bit of meat with breakfast.’ I didn’t think he was funny but he cracked himself. LOL!
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Oh, so you were plagued by flies too! Nope, not funny except for the spectators 😀
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Ugh! Unwanted protein.
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Beautiful! Straight out of a fairytale!
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Nasty!
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