JANUARY RECAP

Here is my recap for January 2017.   Reminder: there is a new Thursday’s Special challenge tomorrow with the theme: Pick a word.  

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…

BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: PASSAGE

Passage of time, passage through a place, life itself is a passage. Passage is the theme of today’s Black & White Sunday, photo challenge that appears regularly every Sunday and as the name says it is in black and white. If you want to join, please: make a B&W photo post on today’s theme before next Sunday link it to this challenge post and…

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…

Thursday’s Special: Twilight

  Today’s theme is pretty clear though the light in the image is dim. This twilight, half-obscure shot was taken one October above Florence.  These days too as we approach the winter solstice, the half-lit sky is the only sky I see coming home from work.   If you want to join me in this Thursday’s Special photo challenge: make a post on today’s…

Thursday’s Special: Calm

I don’t know about you, but I could use a bit of calm this time of year. CALM in nature, in a closed space, or a metaphor for calm within you – there is a number of choices to interpret today’s theme. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge which you may post any time before 24 November. In the meantime,…

Thursday’s Special:Traces of the Past Y2-07

Quite often when I travel I take an unconventional approach. It is not about learning about buildings and places that I visit, or knowing all the dates and names; it is about stepping into the past, and if I am lucky enough to have only the company of my choice with me, it is like a time travel  in which I write my own…

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: After and Before

Today’s theme is easy. All you have to do is to show a photo that you took in colour and then converted into black and white. The theme is “after and before” so start with the after photo 🙂  For this example I chose a photo of a small waterfall that I prefer in colour, but its monochrome rendition revealed me the details I hadn’t noticed before….

Black & White Sunday: Towering

Black & White Sunday challenge this week has towering as a theme. Towering can be a building, a person, a mountain, or a tree.. maybe you can finish the list? Show me your black and white examples of towering. Today I have three and they all include towers. When you make a post, link it to this challenge and leave me your links in…

Finestrella sul canale

  Frames come in different shapes and sizes. More weekly photo challenge themes here.