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Weekly Photo Challenge: Oops!

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This week, share a photographic “Oops!” moment with us. The fiasco could be what’s in the picture: anything broken, jumbled, or otherwise cringe-worthy (ugly sweaters are encouraged!).  Or it could be something in the photo-taking itself, from the tip of your finger ruining a meticulously framed panorama to an inopportune shadow messing up a family portrait.

So Ben at the Daily Post is giving me the opportunity to show something I excel at, taking photos on the wonk! Most noticeable on my coastal horizons, the ones below are all taken in Devon.

It would seem that I favour a dizzy-making right hand down, OOPS.

From Berry to Jelly

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Jen H has chosen transition for this weeks photo challenge, and invites us to show and image or series. This is quite a tough one to be original with at least. I hope that you think my choice demonstrates transition.

There was an abundance of fruit this year, both cultivated and wild and home made jam and jelly is way better than mass produced.

The crab apple tree gave generously.

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One day went to buy some jam jars at Lakeland and got chatting to the lady there, she asked what I was planning to make. I said the next thing was crab apple jelly.’Ooo lovely’ she said, ‘but have you tried crab apple and hawthorn? it’s even better’. Hawthorn grows in practically every hedgerow in England and even the hungriest of birds can’t eat it all, and I do love a forage.
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Being so tiny they take forever to pick.
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There was enough to make a few jars. This is the gunge left behind after straining through a jelly bag.
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This is the lovely jewel like juice produced.
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Best of all, the Lakeland lady was right, the mix of Crab apple and hawthorn makes a delicious sweet jelly,

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Victory . . .

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. . . over the elements, the coach, the lack of fitness?

As many of you know, I often head for the coast at Exmouth straight from work on a summer evening. Quite frequently, while I sit and fill my tummy with fish and chips, a group of people are down there on the sand exercising like crazy.

Over on the east end of the beach is Orcombe Point, the cliffs there are red sandstone and they mark the beginning of the Jurassic coast. If the tide is out you can walk around the rocks to a separate beach or at the top of the cliffs walk the South West Coast Path to Sandy Bay,  Budleigh Salterton, Ladram, Sidmouth and beyond.

It’s from around these cliffs that my victors appear. I expect that sometimes they run along the sand, but just as often they paddle, wade or swim around to Exmouth.

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Note the guy in black, he’s the coach and as the Commando camp is nearby, I wonder if he is a Royal Marine.

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And they’re out and running along the beach.
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Come along at the back, you can do it!

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Just when they think they’re in the clear, he has them back in the sea.
This lazy Gypsy’s only exercise is walking, so I’m totally in awe of this group. They are all ages, shapes and sizes, but they have a common goal, VICTORY . . . over the elements, the coach and the lack of fitness!

Victory is the theme for this weeks photo challenge over at the Daily Post.

Being careful

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This week’s photo challenge was created by Michelle W,

— a photo taken with care, a person being careful, or a task or detail requiring care.

My first ‘Careful’ image is of two young people engaged in martial arts. One wrong move and it could be very painful, but this tough cookie knew just what she was doing.
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Next we have some delicate work, carried out with skill, spinning wool for Turkish rugs.

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And last but not least, my gorgeous Grandson being very careful and totally focussed with last year’s birthday present, his very first guitar!
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The challenge is just out so you have a week to join in.

Half and Half

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Ben Huberman says

This week, share an image that has two clear halves, literally or figuratively. You could focus on composition, like me, and take a photo with an explicit dividing line (either vertical, horizontal, or diagonal). Or take the theme in other directions: zoom in on a pair of objects that together form a whole. Show two people whose demeanor or personality complement each other. Or bring into balance two opposing visual elements — light and dark, color and its absence, sharp focus juxtaposed with blurriness.

at this weeks photo challenge. I decided to go with the light and dark, colour and lack of it, which is the same thing really isn’t it?
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Door

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Cheri at the Daily Post says,

A door is an everyday thing, yet is often a symbol — of a beginning, a journey forward or inward, a mark of one’s home, or even a step into the unknown.

I love photographing doors and I fell for this decaying beauty at St Ives last weekend, I must have known I’d need it!
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”I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

A Moorland Muse

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Show us your muse, says Brie Anne Demkiw. What subject keeps me coming back? Devon of course, it’s the most wonderful place in England and I’m very lucky to live here. I’ve posted many times about the coast, the estuary and the river, and a little about my city. If I think of a muse, what springs to mind is Dartmoor, that expanse of wilderness that I love. Here are a few images from the moor, I hope you find them inspiring too.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rainbow

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Roy G Biv wants a rainbow, way up high, so do I!

Write about anything you’d like, but make sure that all seven colors of the rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet — make an appearance in the post, either through word or image.

Here’s my gallery.

Chibuzor in red
Chibuzor in red
Orange Datura
Orange Datura
Team Yellow
Team Yellow
The Green Circle
The Green Circle
Dickens Blue
Dickens Blue
Indigo Sky
Indigo Sky
Violet Campanula
Violet Campanula

And a song I’ve always loved

If you would like to post or sing a rainbow, join in here at the Daily Post.