I love the curved roof of the British Museum, which is why I thought that this would make a good entry for this weeks PhotoFriday challenge, which is “Curvature.”

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Gold.” I’m entry 149.

I’ve been busy and not had the time to enter the last few PhotoFriday’s, but here I am with an image for the theme “Gold” (always believe in your soul). I have quite a few pictures with bits of gold (you’ve got the power to know) in them, but here, in Kyoto, we have a whole pavilion that’s made of the shiny stuff.

This weeks PhotoFriday theme is “Enormous,” which is kind of a difficult word to get across. A lot of people have just gone for big things or small things at high magnifications. I thought I’d go for a 3.5″ floppy disk, as I remember 1.44Mb being enormous, way more than anyone could reasonably use — and far more than the 100K per side that my BBC Micro managed on its 5.25″ disks. Of course, a single raw image from my 50D would need fourteen of them…

This weeks PhotoFriday, “Seashore,” was pretty straightforward since I only got back from Rhodes, with its famous beaches, a couple of months ago.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Gloomy.” I’m entry number 149.

As soon as I saw the theme for this weeks challenge, “Gloomy,” I knew which image I needed to use. I took it only a couple of weeks ago on the way to work and is a great representation of the kind of summer we’ve been having so far. Pretty gloomy, eh?

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Sharp Focus.” I’m entry 151.

“Sharp Focus” is a surprisingly hard theme to find a good image to represent. A picture that was just sharp wouldn’t look much different from most other pictures. So, ironically, to show something in sharp focus you really need some contrast, namely some background blur. This picture, you can possibly guess, was taken last year at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

I’ve a feeling that I’ve used this picture for at least one PhotoFriday before, but I can’t think of a better image that I’ve taken that says “Wilderness” any better. It was taken in Yosemite from Olmsted Point.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Building.” I’m entry number 226.

I have plenty of pictures of buildings, so this weeks PhotoFriday theme should have been simple. But finding the building rather than just a building was a little harder than I initially thought it might be. In the end I went for this picture of the Chrysler Building in New York.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Shade.” I’m entry number 166.

This is another week where I’m not completely happy with the image I’ve ended up using. Sure, in this picture of Paris showing the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, there is “Shade.” But is a shadow and shade the same thing? Not quite.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “People.” I’m entry number 223.

Apparently I’m “famous” for not taking pictures of people, which should have made this weeks PhotoFriday challenge especially tricky for me. However, in practice I decided on this image pretty quickly. It was taken in Lindos.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Sundown.” I’m number 160.