Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
Had to think about this week’s challenge. Plenty of possibilities, but did I have an appropriate photograph? In the end, I plumped for this one, of a place in Italy called Civita di Bagnoregio…It says...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows
Over at The Day After, it’s week 15 of the Lingering Look at Windows Challenge (I’m probably on my own week 4 of this challenge). This week, a few slightly faded or downright ‘seen better days’...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Patterns
This week, the Weekly Photo Challenge is patterns. I just couldn’t get started, as I wanted to try and find at least one unusual pattern, and decided I would give it a miss, then…Bingo! I was sorting...
View ArticleItaly less trodden…part 1
Pitigliano view 1 I have just been sorting some images I have taken in the last few years, a bit off the beaten track in Italy, and have been taking a look at enhancing a few of them to give them a bit...
View ArticleLingering look at Windows
Today, for the Lingering Look at Windows challenge set by Dawn at her blog The Day After, I have decided to post some bright, cheerful ones seen during my travels in Italy. Most are from Lucca, and...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Flowing
Ailsa at Where’s my Backpack? has us finding images that say Flowing for this week’s Travel Challenge. I’m off to Italy, more precisely Tuscany, for an image from the area south of Siena known as the...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows: Spot the window
Well, it’s Thursday, and time for another Lingering Look at Windows, as set by Dawn over at The Day After. For this week, I thought I would get away from my usual theme of decay, and post some windows...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Height
This week, over at her blog ‘Where’s my Backpack?’, Ailsa is challenging us to find photos on the theme of ‘height’. Well, I don’t do height…not really. I have absolutely no head for heights. Many...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning
For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, ‘Good Morning’ my initial thought was “I haven’t got anything to post”…. then I had a bit more of a think. What makes a good morning? These days, my mornings are...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows: What’s by the window
For this week’s Lingering Look at Windows, the windows are not the star turn as I’ve decided to post some images of windows surrounded by street art or graffiti. I was in London the other day,...
View ArticleEse’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Ugly
This week, Ese has us finding quotes, and images to fit the quote, around ‘Ugly’. Now I’m not sure whether I have succeeded here (and I took a bit of time trying to decide what to post), but at least...
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Brown
I’ve been away for a few days, so no blog posts. When I saw Ailsa’s Travel Theme for this week was ‘Brown’, I thought to myself “great, nice easy one”…. Lucania, visited on my Italy trip this year, was...
View ArticleLingering look at Windows: Interestingly Seedy
Well, for this week’s Lingering Look at Windows, I thought I would post just a couple of rather seedy looking windows from southern Italy, almost continuing the ‘Brown’ theme of my last post! And yes,...
View ArticleLingering Look at Windows: Colourful
For Dawn’s Windows challenge this week, I’m following her lead and posting some bright windows this week. I’m managing to get away from the brown this week! These are windows from the Puglian towns of...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
There have been some brilliant responses to this week’s Weekly Photo challenge of Eerie set by Cheri Lucas Rowlands at WordPress…check some out for yourself. Because of the standard of other entries, I...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Layers
For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, Sarah Rosso at WordPress has tasked us to come up with images to do with ‘layers’. I thought for all of one minute… I am posting an image from recen travels of...
View ArticleItaly Less Trodden… part 3: Casteluccio
For part 3 of my Italy Less Trodden occasional series, we’re off to Umbria. More precisely, to Casteluccio in the Valnerina. When I said I wanted to be based in the area known as the Valnerina, the...
View ArticleEse’s Weekly Shoot and Quote challenge: Music (alluded to…)
This week, Ese has challenged us to find quotes and images around Music….I actually have very few images of musicians or musical instruments, so I went on a hunt for quotes that I could put images to....
View ArticleWeekly Travel Theme: Yellow
For this week’s Travel Theme, Ailsa has picked the colour Yellow…. and I have picked a miscellany of yellows from my travels. Everything from signs, logos, walls, a car.. A logo seen on a wall at Elne,...
View ArticleWeekly Shoot and Quote Challenge: Alive
Ese has chosen ‘Alive’ as our prompt this week… I couldn’t find a quote that I could put an image to until I found this one, and an image from my travels in Tuscany, Italy fit nicely: “If the sight
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