Open Sesame

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Poetry and Photography
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday
MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #32

“This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.”

An homage to lifts/elevators everywhere 😉

“I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can” Rufus Wainwright

Open Sesame

Abracadabra!
How well do you know your algebra?
It is as easy as one, two, three
Even before you can boot your PC
The carriage of comfort
Has lifted you upwards
Your destination dead ahead
Nothing more left to be said

Favourite Photo of the Week, 2015-11-06

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Posted in Fav Foto Friday

“Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really! And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with you!”

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution” Ansel Adams

Favourite Photo of the Week, 2015-11-06

Monolith

Tall, dark and mysterious
Standing by itself, all serious
Staring at it, getting nervous
Or maybe just a little delirious
…

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Monolith

Camera Lucida: Reflections

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Poetry and Photography
Posted in week #13 of Camera Lucida Photo Challenge, Reflections

“It’s always interesting to look at reflections…are they really the same as the reality?
How many times did you look at your own reflection and wondered if that’s how the world sees you…?”

“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face”
William Makepeace Thackeray

Camera Lucida: Reflections

Glass, wood, concrete
How this scene to complete?
Add a dash of colour
Maybe a selfie to follow?

Through the looking glass
Time slowly will pass
The observer’s delight
Is the turning of the light

Scenery, water, skies
Even a high rise
At this altitude
The surprise is an absolute

Lunch Time; Mundane Monday Challenge #31

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Poetry and Photography
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday

“This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.”

MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #31

“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday”
Art Rooney

Lunch Time; Mundane Monday Challenge #31

Lunch time, Office, Espoo, Finland, 2nd of November, 2015

A week full of labour
Still, bearing its fruits

Lunch in the coffee area
No time for feeling inferior

Chums and colleagues take a stance
Together we eat, be merry and laugh
Even time for a wee Monday dance
Of course,
The sweet dessert all the previous enhanced 😛

The Odds and End of an October’s Day, Part Two

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Gun Roswell

October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry
&
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” George Eliot

The Odds and End of an October’s Day, Part Two

The odds and ends
This theme extends
Another mundane Monday
It’s not just an other week day
But a time for little things
Which much joy will bring

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca Part Three, Odds and Ends

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Gun Roswell

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page” St. Augustine

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca Part Three, Odds and Ends

Taking a ride on a train
On this island of Spain
Driving down a narrow lane
Watching the local terrain
Sun is shining, no rain
Sipping on champagne
Feeling very entertained
Passing the mountain chain
And the flattest of plains
There is nothing mundane
About this trip across the domain

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Two

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs” Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Two

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part One

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs” Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part One

Palma Nova
The sweetest Rosa
Of the island Mallorca

Welcomes
The weary traveler
A world’s passenger

Come
And take a load off
Forget all that scoff
Enjoy the sunny beach
Watch the waves breach

Colourful and vibrant
Like a water hydrant
The little village by the sea
No better place to be

London Odds and Ends

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Photography & Poetry

Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy

“Keep calm and go to London”

London Odds and Ends

Going out for Fish and Chips
Maybe viewing a solar eclipse
Or shopping for model toys
Even looking for the real McCoys
London is the place to be
With so many things to see
After a busy day on the streets
Walking, biking or on the bus
Step into the local pub
Lift up your feet
Relax without a fight
And enjoy the night