THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-01

  Perched on a hilltop with about a dozen towers belonging to the Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles, San Gimignano is probably the most picturesque site in the province of Siena.    ©Paula Borkovic This is the first in the series of the Traces of the Past – Y3 (one month the challenge is run in colour, the other in B&W which means that…

HOUSE BY THE LAKE

  Part of weekly photo challenge AMBIENCE.     Also check out this little shed

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: 2016 RETROSPECTIVE

  It’s the time of year when we usually take stock of our life, hoping to make it better in some way and looking forward to the forthcoming year expecting it to bring solutions to our troubles. That’s what I did. I started by taking stock of my images in 2016. You know what they say “an image is worth a thousand words”. If…

NEW HORIZON

    This is my offering for weekly photo challenge and Jo’s Monday Walk.  P.S. This is the last post this week. I can’t seem to find time to post and to view my favourite blogs, so I will take a blog break till next Thursday (22 December). See Scheduled challenges for updates.  

OCTOBER RECAP

Here is my gallery for October, somewhat smaller because I was here just half the month.

Like a Diamond

Every now and then you find a diamond right there in nature and you don’t even have to cut it to make it sparkle.  Lago di Braies with a shining backdrop Part of weekly photo challenge shine.  

Black & White Sunday: Composition

For today’s theme – composition – you may decide to show photos where you paid special attention to this important element in photography, where you either respected the conventional rules in photography (such as the rule of thirds) or you chose to broke them to make the image more interesting, or you may take an entirely different approach in your interpretation. The focus does not need…

Thursday’s Special: Seascape

I am well aware that all of you don’t live by the sea (me neither), but if you can’t take a photo of sea for this occasion, maybe you can dig something out from your archives?     If you want to participate in Thursday’s Special challenge, link to this post and leave me links to your entries in the comment section bellow. Yesterday…

Black & White Sunday: From Above

  For today’s challenge in black and white you are supposed to post a photo taken from above. Don’t let the fear of heights and vertigo stop you, you don’t have to climb high. Sometimes all it takes is to look down at your feet. My example is showing a view of 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon taken from the bottom of Cristo…

Narrow

  In response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Narrow

Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past Y2-03

Looking at the romantic skyline of the Renaissance Mantua, a square building with four angular towers draws my eye and takes me on an imaginary tour of a 15th century Lombard duchy when art was a commodity available to the privileged few, but when it ranked fairly high in the general order of things. A hard act to follow in today’s Europe, won’t you…