Ed is a truck driving photographer from Tennessee who hosts a photography challenge blog called Sunday Stills here on WordPress.
This week Ed would like to see any BAD WEATHER pics.
And what better weather photos to show you after all the rain we have experienced in the UK this month than floods – these are the River Severn overflowing in Shrewsbury.
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
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 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.
My third Mission is Santa Clara de Asís, founded on January 12 1777. It is the eighth Californian Mission and located in the grounds of the University of Santa Clara. Whilst staying in the city of Santa Clara, some 40 miles south of San Francisco, I decided to investigate a few more Californian Missions, this one being the closest.
Named after Saint Claire of Assisi, a thirteenth century Italian nun, this mission was the first to be named after a female saint. It has been destroyed and rebuilt no fewer than six times and the current church is a modern interpretation of the fifth church which was built in 1825 and later destroyed by fire. Its layout is the traditional quadrangle. Continue reading Californian Mission: Santa Clara de Asís (8)
Ailsa of “Where’s My Backpack?” is after a WOODEN interpretation in this week’s theme. If you would like to join in with her challenge then please do. Everyone is welcome.
Although I really dislike puppets (the fear of puppets is Pupaphobia) especially wooden ones like Pinocchio, the ones you find in the Czech Republic are quite amazing, if not a little disturbing.
If you would like to see what others have come up with for this challenge then go to the Daily Post @ WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
Juxtaposition happens when there is two or more elements in a scene that either contrast each other, or one element contributes towards another to create an overall theme. To create a point of juxtaposition, the photo must have at least two elements in the photo that contains strong visual weight, so that the viewer looks at both at the same time and comes to their own conclusion about their purpose in the photo.
The Qutb Complex outside Delhi, India. Photo of the Qutb Minar (built in 1193) taken in 2008.
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