Tag: Weekly Photo Challenge

Future

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This week, Frank invites us to share one or more photos that makes us think about the future.Yesterday, we were hiking for three hours in the Majjistral National Park where nature is stunning. The sea, the huge rocks in different shapes, all wild flowers and the swirling footpaths gives a feeling of being truly in the middle of nature. That we totally went lost is another story…Nature is both delicate and strong. As long as we let nature take care of itself, it will also survive…

One of many threats to the future of our nature is plastic. In the deep oceans, as well as on land.What every generation teaches to the next……will be the result of our future. And I strongly believe in the future.Photo Challenge by Frank / Dutch Goes the Photo’s / Theme: Future

Favorite Place – Stockholm Sweden

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My favorite place is where I live my daily life on the small island of Malta. But after almost eighteen years in this country, another favorite place is my former hometown of Stockholm in Sweden. It´s exiting to be like a tourist and explore what’s new and to visit old favorite places from where I have so many memories.Riddarholmen is an island in Mälaren and a district in central Stockholm, belonging to Södermalm’s district. The island, together with the Old Town, constitutes Stockholm’s historic center.It´s not easy to choose but The Old Town, Gamla Stan, is a favorite place I always try to visit.

Here the alleys are long, many and narrow. It has happened that I’ve almost got lost.A visit to one of Stockholm’s food markets is a must. This is from Östermalmshallarna.At Södermalm you´ll find many old well-preserved houses. You almost get a feeling of being moved to the countryside, though you are in the middle of the city.

The only time of year I try to avoid visiting Sweden is during the winter. But when you see these, you know that spring has arrived! The best time of the year to visit Sweden is in the summer.…and when you see this, you get another proof of Spring, or at least almost. As soon as there are degrees above zero and a blue sky, you’ll have to sit outside if you’re in Sweden, even if it’s only 10 degrees.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge / Favorite Place
Photo Challenge by Frank/ Dutch Goes The Photo

WPC – Variations on a Theme

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WaterVariations of the water in the Mediterranean depending on light, waves, depth and reflections.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge / Variations on a Theme, by Ben Huberman

 

WPC – Transformation

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This week, we share images that embodies transformation.
There are so much. Like a bud above that turns into a beautiful flower! Or the slow and natural transformation of something once shiny.Nature, an old church and all details look completely different when reflected and in water.

Click on the link below and you’ll find lots of transformations from other participants.
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge  / Transformation by Jen.H

Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

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For this week’s challenge, we’ll make use of sizing, placement, and scale in our photos.
Here you can choose in which scale you want to watch the view of Spinola Bay in Saint Julian’s, Malta. The aircraft flying over Manoel Island in Malta looks more like a black spot. While we stand on the ground, hundreds of people are sitting inside that black spot watching the view, seen in a completely different scale.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge / Scale, Theme by Erica V.

WPC – Pedestrian 2

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A pedestrian on the new bridge here in Kuching. It’s not open to the public yet, what we see as a silhouette is a worker. I don’t think the bridge will open before we leave and fly back home to Malta. Just over a week left.
Pedestrians in another part of the world. An early morning walk in the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. I always try to spend some time in this part of Stockholm when I visit my hometown. Soon I’ll be there.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge / Pedestrian Theme by Krista Stevens

Windows, windows…

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Windows and reflections in Kuching, Sarawak.Windows in Kuala Lumpur.Windows and reflections in Kuching, Sarawak.

In my next post I will choose some more traditional windows.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge  / Windows

Leaf and Greenery

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In Borneo, where I am now, there are no specific seasons. There’s the “Landas” the rainy season but it always rains in the tropics, more or less. Compared to Sweden where the differences between the seasons are much more distinct, spring, summer, fall and winter. Also in Malta but not as clear as in northern part of Europe.
Tropical rainforest, layered of compact greenery.Hiking in the forest where the ground are layered of withered leaf. The leaf only change color when they fall off. Not like in Sweden where they fall off after changing color. That can be a real beautiful magnificence! ……In Malta, where I live, there’s almost no forest left...
Layered and twisted texture, as the seasons, depending on where in the world you are.

This is my second contribution for this week’s Daily Post WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.
Just for fun!

WPC / Layered

WPC – Layered

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In this weeks WordPress Photo Challenge we will focus on the interplay of depth, density and texture. Immediately I got some pictures in my mind that I then found in my archive.Depth, density and texture…

Water is layered by surface, density, space, transparency and texture. Water is also a homogeneous volume, but this is my interpretation of this week’s challenge, even though my thoughts are totally wrong in reality. This is not a race, it’s just for fun 😉

Weekly Photo Challenge / Layered

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Waiting

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Photographing insects with macro often means waiting for the perfect moment.
Click on a circle to enlarge if you like to see the whole image.Most waves them away while I chase them with my camera, waiting…Worth waiting for.

Weekly Photo Challenge / Waiting

WPC Corner II from Malta

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My second contribution to this week’s wordpress theme. It’s about Corners, Angles and Intersections… Corners and Angles.Angles and Intersections in the sky. An airplane easily takes us from one place to another. Crisscross…Weekly Photo Challenge
Corner

WPC Corner

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I choose something simple for this week’s theme. Simplicity in corners, angles and crossings. Guess I’m going to post something more sophisticated during the week. This is a fun photo challenge, for Word Pressers. 😉

Weekly Photo Challenge
Corner

WPC Macro and Color, Soo Shiny!

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Failure is success in progress! Ooh, Shiny 😅Even a colorless can appear as shiny through a delightful detour. Colors among our flowers and a welcome little visitor gives delight and diversion.A fly can distract in two different ways. Choose the positive one…

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Weekly Photo Challenge Diversions, Distractions, and Delightful detours
Ooh, Shiny!

WPC Distraction

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In this week’s Photo Challenge I’ll try to find what´is distract me and makes me feel “Oh, shining!”?

This flower grew when I planted a bunch of chives that I bought at the supermarket. They have already started fading. But yet, oh, shine! I will certainly find more that distracts me during this week.

Weekly Photo Challenge

Ooh, Shiny!

WPC – The four Classical elements

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Fire, but rather a fiery sunset. Water, reflections from boats. Earth, with patterns created by a tiny crab.Air, and a volatile little bubble.

Weekly Photo Challenge / Elemental

Weekly Photo Challenge – Textures

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In this weeks challenge we will focus on the tactile element of the objects we shoot, whether it’s one distinct quality, softness, smoothness, graininess or any other texture we find interesting or, a combination of several.

As usual, I couldn’t choose only one. All pics are taken in Italy, Sweden or Malta. It´s a mixture of walls in different shapes and textures. Walls made of bricks, stones or wood. Smooth, hard or painted in soft/strong colors. If you take your time and really look at all pictures, you will find one that is not a wall 😉 Enjoy!

You have to click on an image to enlarge!

Weekly Photo Challenge
Textures

Sweet little insects…

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When I take my macro lens out to the terrace and look for small insects among our flowers after I’ve watered. Then I feel satisfied, as are our plants and the sweet little insects.

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Weekly Photo Challenge / Satisfaction

WPC Satisfaction

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There are so much in this picture that makes me feel satisfied, besides holding the camera. Memories, the sense of freedom, the amazing landscape and the natural colors of the great ocean as well as the blue sky.
Road Trip California in 2014, a trip that gave me great satisfaction and lots of lovely memories.“A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step and every exit is an entrance to somewhere else…”

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Satisfaction

Rock formations

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An unusual rock formation found in Bako National Park in Borneo, Malaysia.
Looks a bit like the profile of a face and I like the different colors of the stone.

These are from the same place, and I have shown them before. But still, so unusual and unique.

Weekly Photo Challenge
Unusual

Bridge WPC

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Since there was no real bridge in my last contribution, I make a new post.
Here you will find some bridges from different places in the world. Enjoy!

A wooden walkway in Golden Bay Ir-Ramla tal Mixquqa, Malta.
A wooden walkway in Tigne and Valletta on the other side.
An elevator that leads to a walkway to Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta, Malta.
Veiw from Singapore flyer. There is a bridge, but maybe not so easy to find 🙂
Lankayan Island, Sulu Sea, Borneo, Malaysia.
In the rainforest, Borneo
Golden Gate San Francisco.
My paradise, a jewel-like tiny island in the Sulu Sea. Lankayan Island, Borneo, Malaysia.

 If you like, take your time and click on an image to enlarge, to each image there’s a short text.
The order is random.

Weekly Photography Challenge

Bridge

Bubble

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Life is nothing but a bubble, a valuable and sensitive one.
It sometimes feels, like we all walk around on a bridge, over troubled water…

When you’re weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes, I’ll dry them all
I’m on your side, oh, when times get rough
And friends just can’t be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you’re down and out
When you’re on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I’ll take your part, oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
Oh, if you need a friend
I’m sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
“Paul Simon“

There is a place where adults and children gather to blow bubbles. It`s amazing to see how all these bubbles, somehow, build bridges of fellowship between so many people. There´s so much joy between everyone and it`s funtastic to take part. Conclusion, we need more bubbles in our world, to build more bridges of joy between each other.

Bridge

Light and water

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Water and Light can transform the ordinary into something beautiful but are also sensitive to changes.The blue water as well as the light in the Mediterranean Sea are constantly changing.
Even the stone and the ladder, but the sea, will in the long run, remain the same.
Weekly Mindful Photography Challenge

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Delta

Gozo’s lost icon…

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Where the Azure Window once stood… …there is not much left today.
This is what I saw when I visited Gozo last weekend.

I felt sad when I read about it, after so many times I have visited The Azure Window on the island of Gozo in Malta, which also was a major tourist attraction. Something once created by nature after decades, also became destroyed by the nature. It collapsed completely in stormy weather on 8 March 2017.These are memories and history…. …Gozo is still a small gem in the Mediterranean.