THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: UNFOCUSED

  If you are anything like me three years ago, you are going to curse today’s theme. Since then, however, I developed a liking for unfocused in photography. I became aware of how nice it is to have your main subject isolated by shallow depth of field, how to accentuate parts of images by selective focusing, how to make model-like scenes imitating tilt and shift…

HULK WAS HERE

    Part of weekly photo challenge NAMES.    

Black & White Sunday: Traces of the Past Y2-08

Traces of the Past is a recurrent photo challenge theme on this blog. It runs monthly, one month in colour, the other in B&W. This month it is time for the Black and White Traces of the Past. I love my town, and the view bellow is very dear to me, despite the efforts of modern architects to ruin it. Traces of the past…

Melancholy in October

Much like the Neapolitan fisherman cast in stone on the shores of Maksimir lake in Zagreb, I went through this October empty-handed and melancholic.     Some times of the year seasonal changes are more pronounced than in others. Head over to Cardinal Guzman’s monthly photo challenge to see how versatile they can be. 

Thursday’s Special: Think Pink

October being the Breast Cancer Awareness Month had something to do with my choice of today’s photo challenge theme: THINK PINK. If you’d like to join me in this challenge, keep in mind that it does not need to be a pink ribbon, but any pink-coloured subject. Let’s make this a happy and bright post…  I did not have to go far to find…

A Rare Beauty

Victoria amazonica In response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare .

Black & White Sunday: Always there

When I was thinking about a theme for today’s challenge my first idea was “iconic” (as in iconic view of a place), but then it occurred to me that it could be a bit too challenging, so finally I decided on “always there” as it can give everybody a chance to come up with a fitting photo. Thank you for playing again. Peace to…

Thursday’s Special: Glow

The last week’s theme was easy, and this one should not be too difficult either. We all need light and glow in our lives, so today’s theme is glow. A reminder: if you are interested in voting for the last week’s best photo entry, you have an opportunity to do so until next Wednesday i.e. 1st of June. Happy Thursday! P.S. For newbies –…

Black & White Sunday: Convergence

  Convergence is the act of converging, merging, uniting. If you have skills or resources to merge photos (or shoot in camera double exposures) you can show it for this theme – that’s one way to interpret it. Other ways are to find a point where several other points (beings, things etc.) cross, come together. Think of confluence, concurrence, meetings, encounters, mingling. I think…

Thursday’s Special: Forbidding

After last week’s great response from my blogger friends that manifested in a large number of excellent entries this week’s theme comes in a different spirit. You are well aware that we live in the world that is getting less and less welcoming with wars, terrorism, masses of refugees trying to reinvent their lives  somewhere else and that we must work harder than ever to make our…

Circle of Love

I’m not going to talk about universal love “expressed by all people for all people” as proposed by the on-call “happiness engineer“. My take on love is the one that perpetuates the cycle of life and makes one feel connected with the universe as shown in the allegoric sculpture, the work of Croatian most renowned sculptor Ivan Meštrović titled the Well of Life. Maybe you…