BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-06

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…

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    ©Paula Borkovic In response to weekly photo challenge DANGER

Black & White Sunday: Traces of the Past Y2-06

A menhir from Corsican  Neolithic site Filitosa   This is Black & White Sunday photo challenge. If you want to participate you are supposed to: Make a post containing a photo (or photos) of something that comes from the past (it does not have to be a distant past) Link to this challenge post Leave me your link in the comment section bellow Make sure…

Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past Y2-02

If you were a regular visitor here two years ago you might remember this little church from Corsica. I found appropriate that it should be featured again, this time in the Traces of the Past series. (You may notice how my attitude towards photo editing and enhancing has changed over the years; the fact that the colours in this shot are more muted and…

Black & White Sunday: What will make you happy? (response to Guest challenge)

My friend Debbie asked me what would make me happy, so here is the answer:     Discovering new lands in the company of the loved one would do it, and I hope that this summer my knees will allow me to do that again.   (give music a few seconds to start)   This is my response to the Guest Photo Challenge hosted by Debbie…

Eye Spy in Reply to Weekly Photo Challenge

Sò elli (Arcusgi) Figlioli di stu sole chì piccia le cuscenze E scrivenu a storia contr’a le preputenze Fratelli di stu ventu chi porta le sperenze Di populu Corsu elli so le sustenze or in French Enfants de ce soleil qui pique les consciences Et qui écrivent l’histoire contre les préjugés Frères de ce vent qui porte l’espérance Du peuple Corse ils sont l’essence…

Inspiration

Recently I wrote a post about inspiration, and here it comes as an official WordPress photo challenge. No creation is possible without inspiration, otherwise it would be an imitation. Here is a photo of the most inspiring island I have ever visited. Listen to the song to find out where it is 😉    

Black & White Sunday: NATURAL

When I think of a challenge I intend it to be as broad and as specific as possible. This time the theme is NATURAL – it can be nature in general, human nature or anything in between. The following naturescape for me is an allegory of human nature. If you have missed seeing it in colour, you can find it here with the corresponding story….

Black & White Sunday: Landscape

The choice of black and white is very popular in street, architecture and portrait photography, but it is a less obvious option when it comes to shooting landscapes. I could not resist posting another photo (that some of you could see in colour before) of Corsica, but this time in black and white.   Do you have some black and white landscapes that you want…

A Walk Among the Menhirs – Sequel

If not the tallest standing stones I have seen, the menhirs of Filitosa on Corsica are definitely the most scenic ones. Plenty of mystery has always surrounded these creations. For the archaeologist Roger Grosjean, the statue-menhirs represented the enemy chiefs killed in battle. The megalithic people would immortalise the enemy warriors strength in stone, so that it could never again manifest itself. (read more…

A Walk Among the Menhirs

Would you join me for a walk among the menhirs of Taravo valley on Corsica? The largest and the most famous megalithic site on the island, Filitosa, stretches on a hilltop of an ancient olive grove. I knew I wanted to see Filitosa even before I came to the island. Seriously, if you had seen the advert  “open air museum with stones cut and…