Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-15)

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Photography and Poetry
&
Posted in Fav Foto Friday #25

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 takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” Dorothea Lange

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-15)

Those of you snapping pix, know this to be a tedious task, since to be honest, they are all favourites of the moments they were taken, why else would you have shot them in the first place, right? Trying to limit to just one or two photos is difficult for any post, but trying my best here from the several thousand photos shot and posted during 2015 😉

For this weeks Favourite Photo Friday posts, I have decided to walk through 2015 and choose a few of my most favourite ones during the coming weeks. Hope you enjoy the walk down memory lane of 2015 in photographs!

For this week’s breakdown, I have chosen snaps from London, Mallorca and Greece. Go and check out the related posts:

UK, London, The Natural History Museum

Greece, Athens, Acropolis, Travel to History

Mallorca, Palma Nova Holiday Resort

Enjoy!

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-15), London, UK

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Photography and Poetry
&
Posted in Fav Foto Friday #25

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” Dorothea Lange

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015 Photo Breakdown (2016-01-15), London, UK

In this post, a visit to the Natural History Museum in London.

Celebrating 12 Days of Shoes!

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in Events
Poetry, Photography, Humour, Quotations, Song

Inspired by the Victoria and Albert Museum “Shoes: Pleasure and Pain” exhibit:
Blog of the same
Exhibit ticket information

“A woman with good shoes is never ugly” Coco Chanel

Celebrating 12 Days of Shoes!

Shoes, shoes, shoes
I see lots of shoes
Shoes over here
And shoes over there

Oh take a look
At the pretty slingback
In the window there!

So many shoes
So little time!

It’s… Shoe Time!

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Three

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Three

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Three

“The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history”

If you are in doubt
Then go and check out
Visit the place of history
And follow the whole story
Of where we came from

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Two

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Two

“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves” William Blake

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part Two

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

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Gun Roswell

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train” Oscar Wilde

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

Rain, rain, rain
Running down the drain
Around in the City of London
Without the feeling of boredom
Too many things to see
Face lit up with a glee
Never mind the sad bad weather
My skin is made of thick leather
A few raindrops do not harm
Even a little storm
Won’t keep me away
From the London sway

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Verbania, Athens

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Part of the photographic Wednesday series: World Wide Wednesday, Around the World in Black and White and Colour

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Verbania, Athens

On the busy streets of London
There is no time for boredom
While roaming the ancient ruins for Greece
Breathe and let the moment freeze
Sailing the gorgeous lakes in Italy
Watching the clouds filling the sky to affinity
Sightseeing, travelling or shopping
There is no time for stopping
Around the wide wide world
Me and my camera are hurled

Ornate, The Natural History Museum of London

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Gun Roswell

The Daily Post Photo challenge: Ornate

Forget about subdued and restrained. This week, let’s embrace the breathtakingly extravagant.

“A lot of designs are grounded in history even though they tend to be clean and not overly ornate. The sculptural form is often historic. If you come to our exhibit, a lot of things will look familiar” Ellen Lupton

Ornate, The Natural History Museum of London

A building
Filled with beauty and history
A home to many a -logy
Botany, entomology, mineralogy
Paleontology and zoology

You may bump into a dinosaur
But don’t worry, it will not roar
Explore the various galleries
Where many of Earth’s memories
Are housed

Public engagement and education
Plenty of research and curation
The Darwin centre with specimen
The Attenborough Studio for conservation
Plenty to choose from

SL WEEK 13: I want to ride my Bicycle

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Gun Roswell

Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
In response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of ecology

“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling” Claude Pepper

SL WEEK 13: I want to ride my Bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride it where I like
Sometimes, even a trike

With this simple vehicle
On a ride so magical
Ever so classical
In today’s world radical
And utterly likeable
Someone said impossible
Even behaviour maniacal
Never mind the icicles
And the cynicals
I just keep on riding on
My bicycle

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