A Word A Week Photo Challenge – Page 2

A Word a Week Challenge: Frame

Every week Sue from ‘A Word in Your Ear’ dips into her English Oxford dictionary and picks a word on the page that it falls open at. The challenge is to post a photograph, poem, story – whatever the genre you like best to describe what that word means to you.

This week’s challenge is FRAME (click to join in with the challenge)

There are lots of ways to frame a photograph including using branches of trees or shrubs as above when I took this photo of the Helshoogte Pass between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.

Or you can use a doorway or archway to frame a particularly nice view like this one at the Carbiere Winery in Franschhoek.

Using a tree and part of a wall on the right to frame this lovely whitewashed Drostdy Museum building in Swellandam, I included another tree and smaller sign to use as the left-hand frame.

Another way of framing a photograph is to get some of the foreground into the picture as I did here at Boulders Beach, using the boulders at the right-hand side to create a curved frame around the blue water.

You could, of course, use software to create a different frame around one of your photos – as I did here with a close-up of a cheese shop display to create the old Polaroid effect.

And finally whilst staying in South Africa, I managed to frame one of my obsessions (beach huts) using the round window in the promenade wall.

if you would like to see more of my images of South Africa and read about my travels there then please visit these posts:

A Word a Week Challenge: Atmospheric

On the way home from a trip to Kent a couple of years ago we decided to go via Dungeness headland which is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the Europe, and is classified as Britain’s only desert by the Met office.

It’s an odd place, a flat landscape with a few unusual houses and abandoned boats and gardens with random items washed-up from the sea used to create some kind of weird sculpture.

Add to this a huge nuclear power station and a tiny steam railway with steam puffing into the air and you get the impression that there is a very unusual atmosphere in this vast desolate landscape.

A Word a Week Challenge: Violet

This week’s challenge is VIOLET (click to join in with the challenge)

Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.

Violet (the colour) sits somewhere between the shades of blue and red. Purple is closer to red, violet is closer to blue and more subdued than purple. So violet can be mauve or lilac or lavender – soft muted shades that lean towards the blue end of the spectrum.

So here are a few of my violet shades captured in flowers:

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Hardy Geranium

Alpine Clematis

Lilac

Early Dog Violets

Fuchsia

and if you have enjoyed these flowers then perhaps you would enjoy visiting Earth Laughs in Flowers for some more 🙂

A Word a Week Challenge: Figure

This week’s challenge is FIGURE (click to join in with the challenge)

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The definition of FIGURE can be several things including a mathematical symbol, a person (especially a well-known one), a shape or mathematical plane (e.g. a triangle), a person, animal or object that symbolizes something or a pictorial or sculptural representation, especially of the human body.

I love the figures that are used to indicate danger on hiking trails. I hope you do too 🙂

A Word a Week Challenge: Undulate

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This week’s challenge is Undulate (click to join in with the challenge)

un·du·late v. un·du·lat·ed, un·du·lat·ing, un·du·lates
v.tr.

1. To cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion.
2. To give a wavelike appearance or form to.

The wavy line on these doors at Mission San Juan Bautista (St John the Baptist) signifies the River of Life.