Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
Well the weekly photo challenge is very late this week and I haven’t a lot of time, I’ve just been to see a play, so I ran around with the mobile taking snaps of these books of mine. The rest, a large bookcase and several boxes’ are in the roof!
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.
I think this is better example of near and far then my first post. Taken on a winter day beside the Exeter Canal. 
If you click to enlarge you can see some walkers in the distance on the right.
Okay, I’m confused this week, this is what Cheri over at The Daily Post has to say about near and far.
Near and Far. We’re excited about this week’s photo challenge, near and far, and hope it inspires you to play with perspective, which can give sweeping images of beautiful locations more oomph and power. Perspective is what makes a flat two-dimensional image, such as a photograph, appear like it is three-dimensional. To create this effect, you can use features like diagonal lines, which converge within the frame and literally suck in the viewer.
It’s too complicated for me, or maybe it’s just been a long week! Either way I think I have done the opposite in both of these photos because I don’t know where are the centre points, but here we go anyway.
Any explanations in simple Gypsy speak welcome!
How do you capture something as abstract as a free spirit? A really tough call but I’ve chosen this damselfly.
To see the other entries visit http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/weekly-photo-challenge-free-spirit/
This photo is very wonky because I took it hanging out of a hotel window!
Bursa is on the old silk route in north west Turkey and was once the capital of the Ottoman Empire. It is one the the largest cities in the country and very industrialised. At the same time it is a very green city with lots of parks and gardens. The surrounding area is forested and mountainous, the mountain in the background is Uludag, the ancient Mysian Olympus, about ten miles outside the city.
This is my entry to the challenge, if you would like to see some more visit http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/weekly-photo-challenge-urban/
Feel the force
If you have the stomach for it! I can’t think of anything worse myself 🙂
This is my entry for the weekly photo challenge over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/weekly-photo-challenge-merge/ where lots of other entries can be seen.
I didn’t know what to do for this weeks challenge, so I went for a walk through the cemetery and this is what came to me, but check out http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/weekly-photo-challenge-wrong/ for some more interpretations of wrong.
Bibury is a pretty village in the Cotswolds, the sort of place that is seen as a typical English village by its many visitors from abroad. Travelling through a few weeks ago there were coach loads of Japanese tourists merrily snapping away. On my return journey a few days later it was quieter and I was able to merrily snap, and have been waiting for a reason to show you. I thought I would focus on the growth happening there.
This row of cottages look like they could be swallowed up amongst the dense growth of trees and meadow.
Fruit trees have a good crop bursting with growth and gorgeous roses doing what roses do best in June.
Look how high the river is, it’s no wonder everything is lush and green this year with the amount of rain we’ve had, I’m glad it isn’t just in Devon, Bibury is in the county of Gloucestershire.
Bibury Trout Farm is an attraction open daily where you can try your hand at catching Rainbow or Brown Trout. There is something for everyone and children especially would love the chance to see the fish leap for the food they can throw in. They sell fresh and smoked trout and have a nice café where I stopped for a quick cuppa – so much nicer than a motorway services! There is quite a bit of algal growth on this section of their fifteen acres.
They have beautiful gardens to walk through as well.
This is the Bibury Court Hotel, a Grade 1 listed 16th Century mansion. I haven’t been inside but a friend tells me its divine, having checked the website I believe her, I like the look of their Afternoon Tea, a mere seventeen pounds a head. I imagine that its grounds are a real sanctuary from the visiting hoards outside. I love the dense growth of creeper spreading over its walls, hope it doesn’t have too many creepy crawlies though.
This is a real ‘Chocolate Box’ cottage but I couldn’t get the best photo because too many other people were trying to do the same.
I visited five weeks ago so I think that by now the runner beans, carrots and potatoes have put on a big growth spurt and filled a few tummies. What a pretty veggie patch.
This is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge with the theme of growth. I hope you have enjoyed it and will visit some of the others here, http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/weekly-photo-challenge-growth/
This weeks photo challenge has purple as its theme. Purple is my favourite colour and i wear it all winter. In spring and summer I enjoy purple flowers and keep trying to take the perfect purple flower photo, maybe one day I’ll get there. Meanwhile here are a few for you, so you recognise them all?If you would like to join in and to see some other entries http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/weekly-photo-challenge-purple/ is the place to visit.
Lucid Gypsy 