Anne‘s challenge this week, is designed to make us move – not use our zoom lens, if we have one. So, your challenge this week is to move your body up, down, forward and back.
I decided for some of my Netherland photos, as I remembered how much I had to move and squat to get them. A first look at Paul Kubics’ The Temptation of Saint Antony at Keukenhof, and then walking closer to see all the details – and there were many! This is a truly fascinating work of art.
The last temptation was the most difficult one to photograph…
In Norway there are many tunnels for drying fish. It’s easy to walk them and then get up close to see what the fish really looks like. No squatting needed. (Sorry, not much excercise!)
I do think I prefer the long shot…
When we visited the dahlia festival in Holland, we could stand close to the passing trailers and different participants.
After the parade, we walked to their parking place and could get up really close to see the meticulous work with the flowers.
In September 2022 I had a beautiful visitor in my garden – a hummingbird hawkmoth. He was so absorbed with my salvia, that I could get close and watch him working from every angle. I had a great experience and will never forget those moments.
Every summer since, I have been waiting for him, and I plant his favourite flowers…
– but he hasn’t come back. Maybe next sumnmer?
I cannot leave out Greenland, can I?
Traveling through the ice you look ahead all the time, but close to the boat things happen as well. You hear it!
I went down to a lower deck and had a look – fascinating!
Our guide was fishing ice for the drink…
When you post your response to this challenge, please link it to Anne’s original post and use the Lens-Artists tag. A huge thank you for your wonderful harmonies last week! My only wish is that they will stay with you too – they have surely stayed with me!
Next week, Ritva will be leading the challenge, so please visit her beautiful site and look out for her post. In the meantime, stay safe and be resilient!
Great post AC, and i especially liked the hummingbird,hawkmothh images!
Mmmm, miss him…
Awww
Thank you for going the extra mile.
Ann-Christine, you’ve met this week’s challenge with so many great examples. I’d love to be on that iceberg tour boat. That’s my favorite series!
Thanks, John! It was a treat every day there.
Ann-Christine, thanks for another beautiful gallery. The hummingbird moth images are my favorites. I can imagine how you had to bend over and move around to get those amazing shots. I also love the Greenland images of the ice.
Thank you – well, it’s getting more and more difficult…
Btw, future readers will be very surprised to know that you had time-travelled to 1922 to capture that Hummingbird moth 🤭
🤣
;-D
Awesome shots, Ann-Christine! I I missed that sculpture at Keukenhof when I was there this year, probably because it was a rainy day and exploring was rather tricky 🙄.
Love the ice shots. We had hummingbird moths in Illinois and I always enjoyed seeing them and taking photos of them.
Thank you, Janet! First time I saw one was in France – I almost took it for a real hummingbird…
They’re very deceptive that way. 😉
;-D
I loved the dahlias the most, I think. From a distance, you’re not sure what the flowers are made of, then the close shot. I loved it.
Thank you – and they were all real. Thousands of thousands of dahlias!
There are so much to see when looking at art, the sculpture detail are interesting, as are the crochet flowers. the fish tunnel was a new one for me, you always learn something new. Obviously the Greenland were beautiful
Thank you, Ritva – and the dahlias were real, all of them! Hundreds of thousands of flowers…
That is the wonder of it
♥
Your gymnastics served you well. And well done on your hummingbird hawkmoth captures. These lovely creatures were common enough in France, but I never got a shot that was even halfway good.
Thank you, Margaret – they are fast and moving all the time – guess how many I had to throw away…
But you got some. Well done you!
Ann-Christine, what a beautiful gallery! The sculpture you photographed at the start is amazing with its details. The hummingbird hawkmoth was another great series. Then, you closed with those fantastic perspectives in Greenland. Fantastic collection!
Thank you so much, Egidio! I enjoyed this challenge – thought at first I didn’t have photos for it!
Took a step back looking at the drying fish to agree with you – the closeup is a wee bit too ‘real’, is it not? . . . and then came to the end photo to smile one did not have to be close to a fridge for that clink in your drink . . . 🙂 ?
♥ You are so good with words, Eha!
Wow, what a great response Ann Christine. I loved your various captures of the hummingbird moth and the drying fish. It made a difference when you got closer. Well done!
Thank you, Anne – a fun challenge!
This is a really great post! You know I love your Greenland pictures, but in this post, my favourites are the two with the moth. Gosh, you’re good at getting them tack-sharp mid-flight! That’s a skill that completely eludes me. Lovely, lovely shots! pp
Thank you, Pam – you don’t know how many I had to delete…
Great collection Ann-Christine the flowers in the parade are so creative, really neat you got the zoomed in view!!!
♥
This one s a fun collection Ann-Christine, especially the sculpture and woven flowers.
Thank you – the flowers are real dahlias!
A brilliant and vibrant collection, Leya. I love the dahlias and that delightful visitor to your garden.
Thank you, Suzette, I miss him!
You are most welcome, Leya.