This Friday, ‘The Snow Melts Somewhere’ and ‘Something to Ponder About’ have challenged us with:
The prompt for this Friday is:
Shadows
Well I wish I had a picture of Hank Marvin for this challenge, but failing that another shot of what we get up to when we visit ancient stone circles.
‘Giraffe’, Men-an-tol, West Penwith, 2016.
Ken
For this weeks Friday Fun we have been asked:
Please share a few of your ‘cloud’ photos, poetry or stories?
Whether through your lens or with creative writing … go where the prompt leads!
Post a photo or get creative
… skies the limit, be sublime, fluffy or grey … please share that!
Well no food to tantalise you or make your stomach grumble this week. I love a good cloudy sky in my photos, so here is one from last year while we were on holiday in Dumfries and Galloway, the skies were just amazing the entire time we were there! So a 4 photo panoramic stitch for you this week.
‘Acres of sky’, Glenquicken stone circle, Dumfries and Galloway, 2018.
Ken
This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Hands, Feet or Paws‘.
‘Shush’, 2019.
‘Shadows’, Men-an-tol, 2016.
And just to complete the set – one I have used before.
‘Mandals’, Portreath, 2015.
Ken
This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Chutes and Ladders‘.
I appear to have a lack of chutes and ladders in my archives, so something to add to the list to snap! I considered ‘para’chutes, and also laddered tights! However I finally decided on this one – I think it counts as a ladder! The Cork stone a natural outcrop on Stanton Moor some 5 meters high.
‘Ladder?’, Cork Stone on Stanton moor, 2013.
Ken
This week Teri has challenged us with:
There is much we can do with this week’s Sunday Stills theme: SPIRIT. . . Whether you believe in a higher being, a natural Earth, follow an organized religion, or simply just believe, show us something that moves YOUR spirit.
In another post ‘#49‘, I posted a picture of the Druids circle, at Penmaenmawr, where we had visited this weekend. Not only did visiting this sacred megalithic landscape raise my spirits, but one of the stones there is very interesting to me. Perhaps it is the ‘spirit’ of the place, It certainly reminds me of a hooded figure watching over the circle.
‘Druids circle’, Penmaenmawr, 2019.
Ken
Each week, K’lee and Dale offer prompts for us to consider as the latest challenge. This week it is:
Written in stone, stonework and structures old and new.
My first choice is the Mên Scryfa in Cornwall, if you look closely at the lower half of the photo, you can just make out some of the text on the stone in this picture. Potentially a prehistoric stone that was later inscribed in the 6th to 8th century, it is amzing to think that this stone can still speak to us.
‘Rialobranus son of Cunovalus’, Mên Scryfa, Cornwall, 2014.
And I’m Going to follow this up with the Ruthwell cross that we went to visit last year when we were in Dumfries and Galloway.
‘Reaching skyward’, Ruthwell, 2018.
And finally another photo taken on our visit to Dumfries and Galloway, this time taken at Anwoth Old Kirk – for those that are interested this was the church yard used in the film ‘The Wickerman’.
‘Reflection’, Anwoth, 2018.
Ken
This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Looks Like a Face’.
I always think that this profile of Long Meg looks like a face, in fact I think she would be rather at home in an episode of the Simpsons!
‘Meg’s smile’, Long Meg and her daughters, Cumbria, 2017.
Ken
This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Fences and Gates’.
Well I am not really sure if this counts as a fence, but both the woodwork and the ironwork look like fences, so I thought I would use this shot from the weekend. We were at Lynton and this is some of the architectural detail on the town hall.
‘Stone, wood and iron’, Lynton, 2019.
Ken
Hadd Hai Yaar challenges us to:
create a post having monochrome photos
So I was browsing through the archives for some photos my wife had asked me to look up, and I saw this one, which I rather liked.
‘Tweet’, Avebury, 2010.
Ken
This week Jenn at ‘Traveling at Wits End’ challenges us to:
This week is one of those odd-ball challenges: Photograph Something that Doesn’t Belong. I think I’m tapping back into my childhood and remembering a bit from the children’s show Sesame Street where they show a series of objects and challenges the children to find the thing that doesn’t belong. I can even hear the song in my head “One of this things doesn’t belong…”
Well what an interesting challenge, Jenn said she did not want to give us an easy time, no keyword searching through our archives, but rather a new photo, or looking at our archives with new eyes.
So I duly started looking through my archives for something out of place. Well the first few things I saw were out of place in the archives, but taken as stand alone items would not look out of place to you at all. I suppose I could have uploaded the photos to either side to illustrate maybe. So back to looking.
Then I found a few things that were sort of out of place but actually entirely natural. For example fungus on a tree, not out of place from our perspective as that is where we might expect to find it, but what does the tree think about it?
Then I saw this photo, to the observer perhaps nothing is out of place, but to one of our cats, the white statute of a cat was definitely out of place in his garden. I had previously edited this photo, but took a look again for this challenge. I would like to be able to say that the weeds are out of place, but more often than not they are in place.
‘My garden!’, Brynna, 2014.
And there I was all set to leave it at that one photo, but I occasionally like a browse through the archives, and only a little further on was this one. A red painted circle on a stone in the middle of a wood. Out of place to the observer, but in place I suspect to the person who left it there.
‘Red Circle’, West Penwith, Cornwall, 2014.
Ken
