In this photo three children are escaping from the hot sun, by playing in the rusting shell of an old wrecked ship. The pattern of light and dark accentuates the contrast between sun and shade.
sun and shade
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This photo was taken in the gardens of the Palais Royale in Paris, where people sit around a pool and fountain to catch the sun. The garden is very formal, but in this image you see the beauty of the water moving, the sunbathers, the bicycle waiting under the tree.
bicycle and sunbather at fountain in garden of the Palais Royale
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My family line, in any direction, comes from England and Ireland. All those ancestors made a journey, sometime in the last two hundred years across the seas to Australia. One came as a stonemason, bringing his family from Somerset to find a better life in the colony of NSW. Another was sent as a convict from Ireland, for the crime of stealing clothing. A brave young woman from Bedford came as a companion for a married couple and their children. An enterprising young man came from Hampshire. A poor farming couple immigrated from Yorkshire, and so on.
Another couple from Cornwall ran away to be married on the Island of Jersey in 1858, then two months later sailed from Plymouth on the Fitzjames as a bounty immigrant to NSW. Their first child was born in a tent beside Sydney Harbour. Later they became successful business people in a bustling country town. When we traveled through England and Ireland a few years ago we visited the towns these people had left behind. The young woman who ran off to married, then immigrated to Australia came from Pentewan Cornwall, or Mevagissey, which is close by. Her journey began here, perhaps taking a small boat out to Jersey to be married.
Mevagissey, Cornwall
looking out to sea
My great-great-grandmother Amelia’s journey started here, my journey to rediscover her ended here!
Robert Rice and Amelia Solomon married in 1858 and immigrated to Australia
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It seems as long as humans have been on the earth they have been arranging to suit themselves. Resting in the green fields surrounding the River Boyne in Ireland are many incredible megalithic monuments. Over 5000 years ago men and women arranged the land to create passage tombs and mounds, which survive today for us to wonder about! This image is of some of the satellite tombs around the Great Mound at Knowth.
some of the smaller mounds at Knowth
and here is a close-up of one of the many carved boulders around the base of the Great Mound
megalithic art at Knowth, Ireland
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http://thesacredcave.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
http://sanvarfotofun.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/lamps-all-the-way/
http://fluffyflurries.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
http://implicado.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
http://roobo69.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
http://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
http://elspethc.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged/
Attending a festival in Bhutan, the Buddhist monks had their own dedicated viewing space. They sat apart in peaceful comfort looking directly over the dancing and feasting below. I could see them through the open doorway of their rustic shelter.
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The colours in this young lotus pod seem very unusual to me ….
lotus pod
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contrast between old and new buildings in sydney nsw australia
My city, Sydney, in which I had lived for most of my life until moving away to the south coast twelve years ago. When I was young the buildings were all gracious old ones, built of brick and stone, but in my teenage years the first tall glass and steel buildings appeared. Later still the tall towers and fluid shapes of current buildings … the skyline always changing. Looking up in Pitt Street you can’t miss the contrast between old and new!
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This face is not only distorted by being too close to the camera, but also out of focus, adding to the surreal look … however it has a joyful quality, the spontaneous fun of children mucking about and laughing!
indulging at L'As du Fallafel in Paris
L’As du Fellafel is one of the best felafel restaurants in Paris, always crowded, delicious and exciting. We walked to the Jewish quarter one evening to indulge in a superb vegetarian feast!
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These dragonflies are touching down to lay their fertilised eggs in the base of the lotus seed pod. If you look down into the water you will see them reflected there.
This dragonfly pair have been flying in tandem around the dam looking for suitable sites to deposit her fertilised eggs. By flying with her the male prevents another male from mating with her. Every minute or so another site is chosen and the pair rest while the eggs are laid. Here they rest on a decaying lotus blossom, beautifully reflected in the water of the dam.
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