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.
In a poll of two, my parents, one hundred percent of participants recommended Rhodes as a great Greek destination, with a nice mixture of beaches, history and places to eat and drink. I’m not much of a beach person but the rest sounded good so I very quickly booked a week off work and took an Easyjet flight to Diagoras airport.
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.
With a startling lack of originality, I present my entry in this weeks PhotoFriday challenge, “Polished.” I say unoriginal as it’s a pretty literal interpretation of the theme and it’s also an image I used for an earlier PhotoFriday (“Shiny“). It was taken in Stockholm, Sweden.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Ethereal.” I’m entry number 173.
This weeks PhotoFriday is “Open” so as I usually do, I opened Aperture and typed in the keyword. Aperture helpfully came up with… all my pictures from Copenhagen. Sigh. So it took a but longer to find this picture of an open window in Tuscany.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Contrast.” I’m entry number 249.
Even in December, with the fog, rain and setting sun, this view of the meeting of the European and North American tectonic plates in Iceland is pretty spectacular. Breathtaking you might say. And, for the sake of this weeks PhotoFriday challenge, that’s exactly what I’m saying.
One of the great things about Norway is that you’re never very far from the country-side. Even in Oslo you’re only twenty minutes on the t-bane from Nordmarka. I couldn’t find a picture of that that I was happy with, though, so I went for the above image taken overlooking Bergen (the fjord capital of Norway).
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Human Form.” I’m entry number 165.
I’m slightly cheating for this weeks PhotoFriday challenge, “Human Form.” This image is technically not human but it’s confused a few people in the past so I figure it qualifies.
(My main hesitation in using this picture is that I’ve used it twice before. But I like it so I’m sticking with it!)
Please also vote on my entry in last weeks challenge, “Suburbia.” I’m entry number 146.
