October Square: Lines and Squares
Today’s selection of photos feature both lines AND squares, for Becky’s October Square challenge.
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CFFC: Circles Everywhere
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Circles, Curves and Arches, and for this post I am focusing only on circles, which are abundant! Circles are everywhere – in nature, in art, in architecture, in daily life. I find circles in modern sculpture, art museums, light fixtures, in decorative displays, floor patterns, and buildings. Circles are […]
Read More CFFC: Circles EverywhereCB&WPC: Taking Sides
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is sides of things. Whose side are you on? I’m not sure I’d want to be on THIS guy’s side – especially its bad side! Climbing up the side of this pyramid might be tricky, not to mention slippery! I’d rather be on this animal’s side than […]
Read More CB&WPC: Taking SidesPull Up a Seat in Paris
Xingfumama has a weekly challenge called Pull Up a Seat. This is Week #33 of 2019. These are some “seats” I photographed in Paris in June 2019.
Read More Pull Up a Seat in ParisCB&WPC: Wooden
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Things Made of Wood. Window frame – Mont-St.-Michel, France Polynesian carvings – Field Museum, Chicago, IL Play Furniture – Second Time Around Sale 2019, Des Plaines, IL Bird House – Des Plaines, IL Wooden cross in shrine – Winslow, AZ
Read More CB&WPC: WoodenSquares of Blue: Surprise at the Louvre
The famous (and huge) Louvre art museum in Paris was once a palace, so one doesn’t just look at paintings. Architectural splendor abounds. Most of it is quite ornamental and historic, so imagine my surprise at seeing this ceiling in one of the galleries! This tribute to Greek discoveries in science fit with the Greco-Roman […]
Read More Squares of Blue: Surprise at the LouvreWorship in the Middle East
Frank Jansen at Dutch Goes the Photo has selected worship as his photo challenge theme for Holy Week. I share the sadness of the world for the devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris. But there are many holy places around the world that inspire awe where people worship. Below are photos of worship from Judaism, […]
Read More Worship in the Middle EastCFFC: Texture
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is all about textures. As the icicles on my house melt in a freeze-thaw cycle, the dripping water forms little ice bubbles on the snow-ice on the porch steps below. I took a photo of a wall at the Field Museum in Chicago yesterday, because it LOOKS textured. It’s […]
Read More CFFC: TextureJourney to Egypt, Part 5: Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
December 25, 2018 The Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo is a huge neoclassical building which is home to the world’s largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The collection contains over 100,000 pieces, so it is said that if you spend just one minute on each piece, it would take over nine months to complete the […]
Read More Journey to Egypt, Part 5: Cairo Museum of Egyptian AntiquitiesGetting Our Kicks: Homeward Bound (Route 66, Day 9-Part 2)
June 16, 2018 Heading northeast toward Chicago, we passed up Towanda, which has a couple of sites worth mentioning; mainly “A Geographical Journey” Parkway with interpretive kiosks along the road, and Towanda Dead Man’s Curve, part of the original 66 before the 1940s and now on Old Route 4. We intended to stop in Lexington […]
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