Favourite Photo Friday, 2015-12-25

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Photography and Poetry
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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!”

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“It’s the season to be jolly…”

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015-12-25

This week I would like to share a photo which was actually not yet posted on my blog, rather only on Instagram. I have been trying to stay off my blog during this holiday week and take some time off during my short stay in the gorgeous island of Lanzarote, but it seems the blog has a will of its own and keeps whispering in my ear to post 😉

There was a special moment up in the sky this week in Puerto del Carmen, which I would like to share with you all. A flashy light kind of a thing (call it a UFO if you will :p) appeared from out of nowhere and stayed a while. It seemed to be shooting a light beam into the sun and making it shine even brighter, if possible. I managed to snap this photograph with my mobile phone while peddling in the pool; lucky shot I guess!

Enjoy!

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In the Here and Now

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The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Now

Sometimes, we get caught up in nostalgia, future fantasy, or both, and we don’t embrace the “now.” For this week’s challenge, take a moment to notice your present, and share a photo of it.

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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay” Simone de Beauvoir

In the Here and Now

Children’s voices
Echoing in the distance
A dog was barking
The sun warm on my skin
The wind blowing softly
Rippling the water slightly
The fluffy white clouds high
Up in the blue sky
Filtering the rays of the sun
Feeling being the only one
Sitting onto the empty bench
Enjoying the silence
As I sit by myself
Letting moments pass by
A soft content sigh
The only sound
In the here and now
To be found

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Throwback Thursday 2015-12-24

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Happy Holidays to One and All!

“I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach” Rosamund Pike

Throwback Thursday 2015-12-24

Today is time for a walk down memory lane again and dig into the archives of Rantings Of A Third Kind since the beginning of time. Well at least from the beginning of this blog 😛

Here are a few featured today:

Highly Illogical (Repost for TBT)

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Stuck Between a Poem and a Hard Place (Repost for TBT)

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Let the Rantings continue!!!

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World Wide Wednesday 2015-12-23

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Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home” Matsuo Basho

World Wide Wednesday, Around the World in Black and White and Colour

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A glimpse into the archives of photography from around the world from Rantings Of A Third Kind on Wednesdays.

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Posts so far:

Around the World in Black and White, First Edition

Around the World in Black and White, Second Edition, Part One

Around the World in Black and White, Second Edition, Part Two

Around the World in Black and White Presents: Third Edition: Rhodes Island, Part One

Around the World in Black and White Presents: Third Edition: Rhodes Island, Part Two

Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fourth Edition: Rhodes Island, Part One

Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fourth Edition: Rhodes Island, Part Two

Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fifth Edition: Cyprus

Around the World in Black and White Presents: London in the Rain

Around the World in Black and White Presents: London

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Natural History Museum, London

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre in Black and White

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Athens, Acropolis

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Two

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Three

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Four, Night

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Finland, Espoo, Suburbia

World Wide Wednesday Presents, Delphi, Part Two

World Wide Wednesday Presents, Delphi, Part Three

World Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Two

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Three

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Four

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Five

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Six

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Seven

Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Eight

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Rhodes Island, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Rhodes Island, Part Two

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Rhodes Island, Part Three

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Rhodes Island, Part Four

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Verbania, Athens

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Manaus, Rhodes, Cyprus

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Brazil, Cyprus and Rhodes

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki, Finland, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki, Finland, Part Two

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World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki, Finland, Part Two

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World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre 

“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before” Dalai Lama

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre in Black and White

Welcome to Hel-sinki!
Did you land here quite unexpectedly?
Please, have a look around
It’s more pleasant than it sounds
Nice, clean, safe and poetic
Our small town of the idyllic
We’re way up North
But well while the worth
Of making a short trip
Even with a tall ship
So stay a while, take a look around
You may be surprised of what you found

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World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki, Finland, Part One

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World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre 

“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before” Dalai Lama

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The Helsinki Cathedral

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Alexander II

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& Friends

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The Senate Square7

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The Market Square

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Havis Amanda

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Esplanade

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Shoes for regular size feet 😛

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Contemporary cave paintings in the city Metro

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Machine, Part Two

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Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of, Machine

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“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed” Rick Riordan

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Going up, going down
Never stops on its own
A pater noster
Of a modern kind
A machine more efficient
Is very hard to find

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Machine, Part One

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Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of, Machine

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do” B. F. Skinner

Aeroplane

High up in the skies
Through the clouds it flies
The sheer size
Leaves you mesmerized
Well oiled machinery
Pulling together amazingly

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Favourite Photo Friday, 2015-12-18

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Photography and Poetry
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Posted in Fav Foto Friday #21

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!”

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“No more camouflage, I want to be exposed and not afraid to fall”

Favourite Photo Friday, 2015-12-18 /#21

For this week’s favourite photograph, I chose the one I posted for the Blogging U Poem a Day challenge, aptly titled “Camouflage”. The poem written for the same, can be found behind the related post link.

Enjoy!

Related posts:
Camouflage

 

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It’s About As Funny As A Root Canal (Repost for TBT)

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“Born With Teeth” Kate Mulgrew

It’s About As Funny As A Root Canal

You know
That feeling
Lying
In the chair
Thinking
Life 
Is not fair

Staring
At the ceiling
Anticipating
Sweat
Covering
Your skin
Waiting for
The drilling
To begin
The sound
Resonating
In your skull

Totally bound
With feelings
Of dull
Contemplating
An escape
Looking
At the window
Wishing
For a cape
Like a superhero
Flying away

No time
The Dentist
Hovering
Covering
Your eyes
With sunglasses
Working
In a quick pace
Before I
Can plot my
Break

My mind
Wandering to
Molasses?
Am I
Loosing it?
Completely
Sugar
Would be
The last thing
I needed

Mouth
Agape
Drooling
Like an ape
Fooling
Not a chance
In a deep
Trance
Or a drug endused
State

After all
Is done
Wishing
I had
A gun
Somehow
Cooling down
Getting up
Staggering
Reeling
A sick
Feeling

A glance
In the mirror
Spittle
And blood
On my face
Must be
An error
Covering
My head
With a hood

Leaving quickly
No looking
Back
Oh what
A quack
Never mind
It’s all over
Until
Next time

When
You hear
It’s as funny
As A root canal
Time to fear
And run
As fast
As you
Can

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