This week Anne’s challenge is Zooming. She describes Zooming as part of the Intentional Camera Movement family, but instead of moving the camera, you are just moving the lens back and forth. Here’s a link to her challenge post.
Continue readingThis week Tina invites us to post some humorous captions with our images. Her original challenge post is here. So without further ado here’s a few images and captions from me….
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We really like Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa. Its a popular destination for Brits and other Europeans as the climate is pretty good all year round. We spent last week there having picked up a last minute, discounted, package deal. One of the benefits of being retired.
Continue readingRitva hosts this weeks challenge and invites us to post images that break the traditional rules of photography. Like Ritva I’ve struggled to find examples. I predominantly shoot images for stock so I’m always shooting on thirds with copy space and headings in mind. I have found a few images, shown below, and I’ve captioned them with why I think they break the rules. Here’s a link to Ritva’s challenge post.
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A new WordPress Challenge for me. Posting the last image I took in April 2025. Here’s a link to the original challenge page
We’re on holiday in Lanzarote so this hasn’t been through Photoshop. It was the last pic I took yesterday. I fell over the rocks after taking this and cut my leg and hand. The camera was ok though 🙂
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This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is presented by Sofia, and it’s Cinematic. I’m a bit rushed posting this as we’re travelling to Lanzarote later today but, having missed last weeks challenge, I didn’t want another to pass me by.
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We were invited to visit and stay with my in-laws who live in Bournemouth, Dorset over the Easter weekend so last Thursday we drove down from Bristol to join them on the south coast. We left the planning for the weekend to David and Donna, in fact the only thing we had to do was to provide a suitable dessert for our meal on that first night!
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My obsession with all things Greek (as far as baking goes) continued today when I tried a recipe for Greek Saragli which are Baklava Rolls.
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This week our Lens Artists Challenge host is Anne. The theme is Abandoned
The Bay of Abandoned Hotels is located at Župa Bay. Kupari, Croatia, about twenty minutes along the coast from Dubrovnik. Kupari’s Župa Bay is an old resort of five large hotels that were constructed for the former Yugoslav Peoples Army in the early 1960’s. The hotels were attacked and badly damaged during the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990’s and then abandoned.
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On a recent trip to Cyprus I tried a proper Sokolatopita or Greek Chocolate Pie in a supermarket cafe. It was early in the morning and most of the pie had already been sold. I soon realised why as I tucked in to my portion, it’s an indulgent, delicious treat. Before we left I went back to the cafe counter to get another portion, to take away with us, and it had all gone!
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