Category: The Daily Post

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

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Sara Rosso says `Foreign. While foreign (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general.’

Foreign is fascinating, if it’s different I’ll love it and want to experience it, so this week the challenge is fab as far as I’m concerned. The photo I’ve chosen was taken in . . . any guesses? 

To at least one blogging friend this isn’t foreign and I know that a fair few of my visitors live there!

If you would like to join in visit http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/weekly-photo-challenge-foreign/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

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This is what they have to say about the challenge this week over at  The Daily Post .

Everyday Life. This challenge is all about people and the things they do every day: working, eating, drinking, chatting, dreaming, walking, exercising, or any of those things we do all the time without really thinking about it. Take a walk around your neighbourhood, or around the streets where you work or study, and take a look at the people you see.You might think that your neighbourhood isn’t very interesting, but imagine that you’re giving a guided tour to someone from the other side of the world—what’s normal for you might be extraordinary to them. 

And this is my entry.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming

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This weeks photo challenge over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/weekly-photo-challenge-dreaming/ is dreaming. They suggest a shot with an other worldly sense of escapism created with a long exposure. Mine was only a one second exposure but taken later than the hour before sunset that they suggested, and I have de-saturated it a bit because the street furniture is actually brightly coloured at night. I hope it has an ethereal effect with its ghostly shadows. 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Launch

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I spent half an hour around a gang of teenage boys at the ramps who were swearing and well, a bit rough around the edges. I was conscious that I had an expensive camera and found it quite intimidating. So my shots didn’t turn out very well because it was getting dark, but you can still see them launching from the ground!

After a while some of these guys came over to ask why I was taking photos. They had never been photographed in action before, can you believe it? Anyway they seemed to decide I was okay and then started to show off their skills even more. I don’t understand how manage they to turn themselves and skateboard upside down and not only land with their feet back on the board again but to do it without breaking their necks!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Winter

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Dido and Daisy aren’t too keen on snow!

Also have a look at these great interpretations of winter:-

http://jobryantnz.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/weekly-photo-challenge-winter/

http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/winter-cold-fighters/

http://creativityaroused.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/weekly-photo-challenge-winter/

http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/weekly-photo-challenge-winter/

http://hurtlingtowards60.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/weekly-photo-challenge-winter/

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting

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To catch to the apples

For the next breath

 

The right note

 

For the customers to arrive

 

For her make-up to be finished

 

For Cricket tea

 

Just a few of the things to wait for at Apple day, Cockington, Torbay. Held each October to celebrate the autumn fruit harvest. Juice is pressed in the traditional way with lots of different apple varieties on display. Once again this year the sun shone and everyone relaxed in the grounds listening to live music with Punch and Judy, a worlds worth of food choices and lots of ale and cider to taste. Kids, costumes, jam, dogs and of course lots of tempting crafts. A very happy and eventful family day out in Devon.

The Daily Post: What Makes Someone Beautiful?

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Loving with a love that has left behind

all thoughts of whether the packaging

is crumpled and faded.

Living on life’s see-saw, still smiling

when it jolts to the ground hard, not only

when you’re lifted to the sky.

Still finding a smile when your child

has woken every night for three years.

Pretending that the burnt round the edges

soggy in the middle meal, made

by a loved one, is nectar.

The open mind and heart of one

In the comfort in their own skin

accepting of who they are,

right here and now.

Loving kindness, that smile again,

when it meets the eyes of a soul

who rarely speaks to another,

never mind smiling together.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility

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It’s been a busy summer of craft fairs and shows. Before we shut down for the winter my friend Lindy and I have a final few manic weeks and have been busy making jewellery. As usual Lindy has made most of the beads, my role is designing and making necklaces – and I like to think that I’m pretty good convincing people that they need to treat themselves!

So for the possibility challenge I thought I’d show you the raw materials,

Could this possibly turn into anything useful?

A stage along the way,

Some of the ingredients,

From possibility land to a beautiful result,

Which I hope you like!