This kind of feels wrong. Posting my PhotoFriday entry, this week for the theme “Sundown,” actually on a Friday is very much out of character for me. As an added bonus, I really like this image. It was taken in Kyoto, Japan last year.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Many” (quite by chance, it was also taken in Japan). I’m entry number 177.
My World, originally uploaded by stephendarlington.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Manufactured.” I’m number 161.
This weeks PhotoFriday challenge is “Manufactured.” These bottles, found in a shop in Lisbon, were certainly manufactured.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Primary Colour.” I’m entry number 176.
My challenge for this weeks PhotoFriday, “Primary Colour,” was that the picture I really wanted to use has been used at least once already. The appeal with that one is that it has all three primary colours rather than just the two that you can see in the above picture, taken recently in Symi (a Greek island near to Rhodes). But, as they say, two out of three ain’t bad.
I don’t think this is my strongest ever entry to a PhotoFriday challenge, but I do think that this old typewriter fits the theme of “Minimalist.” I am mainly referring to the minimalism of the picture itself, the almost monochrome look and the simplicity of it all. But you could also consider that by using a typewriter rather than a word processor you’d be keeping things simple and minimalist.
This weeks PhotoFriday challenge is “Lines.” I have a lot of pictures that have lines in them but fairly few where it’s the most prominent feature. My first choice of image was of my old, broken MacBook hard-disk but then I realised that I had already used it for a PhotoFriday last year! So I switched to the above picture, taken in the Tokyo Forum.
When I initially thought about this weeks PhotoFriday theme, “Ride,” my mind first went to cycling. Only I couldn’t find an image that showed bikes in motion which seemed to defeat the point. So, instead, I went for this picture that I took while riding on the Tokyo subway. (It might be a bit of a stretch but I really like this picture!)
For this weeks PhotoFriday, “Elaborate,” I wanted to show something with lots of tiny details. Not just a picture of something that has lots of small details, but an image that shows and makes it clear that the details that are visible are only the tip of the iceberg. There were a few that kind of worked, including pictures of the Tokyo Forum, dancing at this years Chinese New Year and some details on a building in New York, but I thought this image of the ceiling of the Natural History Museum in Vienna caught it better.
This weeks PhotoFriday theme is “Mother Nature.” I wanted to do something a little better than a pretty landscape or a beautiful landscape. Sure, they’re both by mother nature but I don’t think that’s all there is. I wanted to show the creation and the power and, to a certain extent, how little control we have over the whole process. Iceland is about as good as it gets for that kind of thing, with the volcanos and geysers. We didn’t see any volcanos when we were there — which would have fitted the theme even better — but this is an image at Geysir. It’s dark and miserable, even at 11.30, in December but it’s still spectacular.
