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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #21: Splash!
This week, Patti is hosting our challenge – and she has chosen an interesting subject – ”Splash!” for us to illustrate, and relate to. The essential Water. And in order to survive and live on this beautiful planet, we rely on water. (And oxygen…and…)
In the header, the photo shows the bathroom at Casa Battló in Barcelona. (Fake water…)
Memories from the Spanish west coast – a warm and glorious evening!
The sound of a River in Iceland, making its way to the cold winter sea.
Lofoten, Norway, is something otherworldly…
And down to the tiniest spot, we rely on water. To catch fish, drink, but also to play with – and in…Bring your mum if it looks too dangerous!
My students always had to go through several ”tests” when they first started college. One of them meant filling a tube with water, and to cooperate to stop the water from splashing through the holes in it. Using yourself only! And there were several holes drilled in it…. They almost always threw themselves into the game – After some minutes the leftover water was measured, and the winners were…:-D
Thursday Thoughts – Art Nouveau Villas
Wherever I travel, I love to walk among architectural big or small wonders. In Łódź, on our last day, I found a guide about famous houses in the city. Not much time left, but I just had to see their famous Art Nouveau gem.
Villa Gallery, a house built in 1903 for the manufacturer Leopold Kindermann from Łódź, is listed on the prestigious Iconic Houses platform.
The global list of outstanding architecturally-significant houses is created by the Amsterdam-based Iconic Houses Foundation.
The aim of the Iconic Houses organisation is to popularise knowledge about 20th-century great architectural designs, gathering documentation on them and promoting the idea of opening such buildings to the public.
Only the houses that are open as public museums can enter the Iconic Houses list.
Among the list of most beautiful houses of the 20th century, there are icons such as Antonio Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Poissy, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Arizona, as well as the houses of Alvar Aalto in Helsinki, and Victor Horta in Brussels, Theo van Doesburg in Paris, Arne Jacobsen’s in Copenhagen and many others, all considered milestones in the history of modern architecture.
Just to look at the elaborate details is magical. The iron gates were magical wonders.
The windows, and the visible – or hidden – sculptures really kept your eyes alert.
I met with some great difficulties trying to photograph the house – high gates and impossible angles. But I hope you get a hint of the beauty of the villa. It made me long for Bacelona and Gaudí, again…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #20: Open Sesame – Doors and Doorways
Tina’s challenge this week is for us to find doors – and maybe to open them…or at least making you want to find out what is hidden behind them.
“Doors can lead you to other worlds, or to what is behind what is in front of you.”
Stephanie Torbert
I like that quote from Tina’s post, because I like word play, and my doors are simply a diverse gallery of some favorites from my travels. All of them works of art – natural or man made. In the header, the enigmatic doorway to Rila monastery in Bulgaria.
Bhutan
Tibet
The Moroccan desert – where the doors are the woven, striped and checked ”carpets” on the left hand side.
Spain
Latvia
Sweden
Sweden
Please remember the Lens-Artists tag to be seen in our Reader section. For more information about our challenge click here. And don’t forget to join Patti for her challenge next week!
Thursday Thoughts – Things That Caught My Eye in Łódź
I love things new and things old, architecture and juxtaposition of styles. Things dilapidated, things science fiction, things…Well, maybe we all do. Hope a mix will be enjoyable this Thursday!
A walk in contemplation…
– as always…
The old Jewish cemetery
Abandoned places in the middle of the city
In between old and new apartments – he was selling fresh fruit and vegetables
One of the many impressive street art works – this city is considered one of the major cities in the world for graffiti artists
View from the new railway station
CFFC: Lights
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lights
If there were no lights in the world, we would not be able to see something of it. At least not at night. So, here we go with artificial lights!
Fanö
Beijing
Barcelona
CFFC: Places People Live
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #14: Windows +
I guess you might be… one of those lovers of windows and doors? So many of us bloggers are fascinated by – doors and windows. But, not only the window itself is special and worthy of acknowledgement, I think also what/who is standing or sitting by or at the window is important. Maybe you find an interesting something standing or hanging in the window…or perhaps seen through the window!
For this week – Find a favorite window and show us your special choice!
For some years now, I have been fascinated by Poland, and I have found many interesting windows there – I guess they all have…that little story I am looking for:
We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
There is a window from one heart to another heart.
The windows of the houses, even if the house is ramshackle, are always beautiful because windows represent light!
It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!
You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary, your window gives of this nice, quiet light.
Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
And – HAVE YOU SEEN THESE?
There were many interesting responses to Patti’s challenge last week. Thanks to all who participated!
Debbie of Travel with Intent shows us an interesting juxtaposition.
Ken of anevolvinscientist sent us a rare and giant flower, for which we really have to look up!
Click This TAPG shares a dizzying shot making you definitely look up!
Amy will post the next challenge on Saturday, October 13th at noon. For more information on how to join the Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details. Most importantly, remember to TAG your post “Lens-Artists ” so it appears in the Reader.
Wishing you all an inspiring week!
Thursday’s Special: Pick a word in October – Y3
”Welcome to another Pick-a-Word Thursday’s Special. I hope that the choices I made for this month’s photo challenge will allow you a lot of liberty in interpretation.”
I always enjoy Paula’s (Lost in Translation) pick a word prompts – Here are my interpretations for this week!
gushing – lava in the header and Tännforsen below
aperture
frontier
triplets
tapered
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #10: Fences
The wide world is all about you, you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Where I grew up there were stone fences everywhere – even our garden had one, and we loved to climb and to play there. That stone fence was meticulously put together by my great grandfather and his family.
For centuries stones have been gathered from the ground to open up for grazing cattle or growing crops, and then laboriously made into beautiful stone fences stretching miles and miles over the landscape…
I guess this is the reason to why my favorite fences are made of stone. But there is a great variety of other fences in the world, both beautiful and practical.
If we travel up north in Sweden – these leaning beauties are frequent.
In Poland I found this perfect fence – creating total harmony with the surrounding nature.
In the Azores, especially in Faial, they use hydrangea to make natural fences for the cattle. The hedges can grow 3-5 meters high.
Which is quite different from Bhutan, where we encountered this most unnatural fence…But, in the rural areas they have to use whatever is at hand – and in the vicinity there was a working sawmill.
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
The marble fences in the Forbidden City, Beijing, create mazes between the buildings.
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
Somewhere in the Canary Islands I found this modern, somewhat sprawling fence. Only because of the palm tree, it still managed to create a certain harmony.
But, real craft work is making the harmony in this elaborate iron fence, in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain.
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
At the great Carnival in Lund, people gather in thousands – and for students, there are no fences unclimbable… they believe, like Locke, that
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
This week, the Lens-Artists challenge is to show us your favorite fence. Or, maybe you prefer fencelessness? Looking forward to your ideas and posts!
Have you seen these – from last week’s Action challenge?
Sue of WordsVisual plays with shutter speed for action feeling
Su Leslie of Zimmerbitch caught a precious moment
Ron Mayhew’s Blog with, to me as a Scandinavian, a very American action gallery
Here are a few reminders about the Lens-Artist Photo Challenges:
- Welcome to join the challenge this week.
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- Amy will post the next challenge (#11) on Saturday, September 15th.
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As always, thanks for joining the challenge and have an inspiring week!
Leya 
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