Around the World in Photographs: London in Black and White: Part One

Posted in Around the World in Photographs: London in Black and White

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“There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere” Vivienne Westwood

Around the World in Photographs: London in Black and White

Over the rooftops
To the hustle and bustle
Of the streets of London
In just a few hops
A few old castles
And a famous dungeon
Hop on a bus
Without much fuss
Follow the lines
And you’ll be fine
Eyes wide open
Seeing more than hoping
In the evening
You are dreaming
Of how much more
The next day has in store

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Through the looking glass (Photography 101)

Posted in Photography 101: Glass, Squared (Day Seventeen)

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“I’ve actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows” Megan Fox

Through the looking glass (Photography 101)

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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Home and Far Away (Photography 101) : One

Posted in Photography 101: Landscape & Cropping (Day Fifteen)

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“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh

Home and Far Away (Photography 101) 

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

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Cats ans Dogs (Caturday) Two

Posted in Caturday
Photography, Poetry, Humour
Photo Credits Miranda Kuusisto

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“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady” Juliette Lewis

Cats ans Dogs 

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Cats ans Dogs (Caturday) One

Posted in Caturday
Photography, Poetry, Humour
Photo Credits Miranda Kuusisto

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“Dogs are my favorite people” Richard Dean Anderson

Cats ans Dogs 

Cats and Dogs
Put them in a box
What secrets untold
Before you unfold
When the box is opened
Only keep hoping
There is no other agenda
Are they friends or enemies
Or just plain frenemies
That is the age old dilemma
Of Cats and Dogs

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From Colour To Monochrome (Photography 101) Three

Posted in Photography 101: Architecture & Monochrome (Day Twelve)

“Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word mean” Karl Lagerfeld

Roadside, Espoo, Finland

 

From Colour… 

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…To Monochrome

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From Colour To Monochrome (Photography 101) Two

Posted in Photography 101: Architecture & Monochrome (Day Twelve)

“Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word mean” Karl Lagerfeld

Lakeside, Evia, Greece

 

From Colour… 

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…To Monochrome

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From Colour To Monochrome (Photography 101) One

Posted in Photography 101: Architecture & Monochrome (Day Twelve)

“Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word mean” Karl Lagerfeld

Seaside, Helsinki, Finland

 

From Colour…

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To Monochrome

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Going Up? (TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Never give up, never surrender, full speed ahead!” Galaxy Quest, Commander Peter Quincy Taggart

Going Up?

Higher, faster, stronger
Can’t wait much longer
Without any doubts
Reaching for the clouds
Got to get up, up, up!
Never going to stop
Counting every minute
The sky is the limit

Then, out of the blue
Quite abruptly
Movement disrupted
Everything frozen
Feelings of brazen
Completely gone
Looking at the door
No route for escape
Standing there
Without a clue
My mouth agape
Pulling my hair
Eyes wide
Nowhere to hide

“Well, apparently the lift has stopped?”
“Sixteenth floor, going no higher?”
“No, next step is to be opted.”
“Guess we are out of the dire!”
“Yes, well, time to get off this ride!”
“Right! Please, after you!”
“Thank you! How kind.”
“No problem! Next stop into the queue!”

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Compose (Photography 101): Two

Posted in Photography 101: Composition/Light (Weekends 1-2)
Photography, Poetry, Humour

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“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” Eudora Welty

Compose

Strike a pose
Then compose
Take a dose
Of the photographic
Choreographic
After done
Hit the traffic

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