BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y4-06

I usually post castles, churches and ruins for this challenge, but this time I thought it would be cool to see Traces of the Past in nature. After all traces of the past are all around us. Here is an example of a remnant of one of many volcanic eruptions on Tenerife Island.   ©PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED     What traces of…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y4-04

This is the only Black & White Sunday this month, and I decided that it should be Traces of the Past (the recurrent photo challenge on this blog). Here is one of the most beautiful landmarks of Northumberland – the famous Bamburgh Castle. The day I took this photo it glistened nicely in late, golden sunlight, but for this opportunity I decided to show…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y2-01

I almost let March go by without Black & White Sunday, and with a shorter weekend I only managed to post it today. Here’s a challenge which invites you to post the same image in colour and black and white. I call it “After and Before” and it is a recurrent event, the first one this year.     ©PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Above…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y4-02

This is the only Black & White Sunday this month, and I decided that it should be Traces of the Past. Last summer I was lucky to visit, if only briefly, beautiful Rosslyn Chapel located in the village of  Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland. Once a place of Catholic worship, after the Scottish Reformation, Roman Catholic worship in the chapel was brought to an end, and…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TEXTURE

Sad looking or maybe just resignated to  a life in a few square meters; not easy to tell when looking at this captivated gibbon’s face.  The texture of his hair and skin is fascinating, so much so that I decided to feature him for today’s photo theme TEXTURE. Maybe you’d like to join me for this challenge and show your examples of texture in…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: SHAPE

It’s been a while since I posted a Black & White Sunday. This time the theme is SHAPE. Shape is a great theme for any photo challenge, but I think it lends itself best for a monochrome interpretation. You have a week to respond. The next B&W Sunday will be in two week’s time with combined “after and before” theme (one shot in colour…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-08

Regular visitors to my blog know that once a month on a Sunday I post a combined photo challenge theme for Black&White Sunday. It is called AFTER and BEFORE and it invites you to post the same  image both in black and white and in colour. The topic and subject are entirely arbitrary. The only condition is that you post an image captured in colour…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: CEILING

Recently, Black and White Sunday has turned into a fortnight event which means that there will be no more than two of such events per month. Today’s theme for this photo challenge in black and white is “ceiling”. The deadline for your entries is 23 September. The bellow photo shows ceiling of Jeronimo’s monastery in Lisbon. ©2015 PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   Please…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-07

Regular visitors to my blog know that once a month on a Sunday I post a combined photo challenge theme for Black&White Sunday. It is called AFTER and BEFORE and it invites you to post the same  image both in black and white and in colour. The topic and subject are entirely arbitrary. The only condition is that you post an image captured in colour…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-08

I happened to be in Newcastle upon Tyne on an important date for Britain, and was very happy to capture some of the celebratory atmosphere in the streets. As is often the case in my pictures, I applied selective colouring cause it just felt right.   ©Paula Borkovic   This is Traces of the Past recurrent  photo challenge theme. This month you are invited…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: STRUCTURE

The quaint looking field structure known as kazun in Istria has been widely used in the past once as a dwelling, but most commonly as a shelter, and later on for storing agricultural tools. The changed way of life gradually made them obsolete, but their cultural and historical value is greater than it may at first appear. Most of the examples that can be seen…