Tankar
CFFC: Glasses, Cups or Saucers
Macro Monday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #86 – Change Your Perspective
This week Patti shares some different perspectives to try in our photography – ”We invite you to break the habit of shooting photos at eye-level and change your perspective. […] show us your photographs taken from a variety of perspectives -”!
I believe the differences are clearly visible in flower photography –
In the opening photo of my ”Princess of the Night”, I am lying on the floor in the middle of the night to get a view of the inside of the flower.
Close-up – from a low position is one of my favorite perspectives.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy
Eye level – front and side, often looks even better back lit.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.– David Alan Harvey
Going low from a distance can sometimes create a more interesting picture.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
– Ansel Adams
Looking down is necessary to get the beauty of both the butterfly and the flower.
With tiny flowers, mass-effect can do the trick – and light and darkness of course.
Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.
– Scott Bourne
Sheer Mass-effect
Thank you, Tina, and all participating bloggers, for last week’s Treasure Hunt – a success with many fun and interesting entries!
And here is a Special announcement:
At Lens-Artists are delighted to announce that the March 7th challenge (#87) will be hosted by our special guest host, Miriam Hurdle at The Showers of Blessings Please be sure to visit Miriam’s site on Saturday, March 7th to view her challenge. For the rest of March, we’ll follow our usual weekly schedule:
- March 7–Miriam of The Showers of Blessings
- March 14 – Ann-Christine of Leya
- March 21 – Amy of The World is A Book
- March 28– Tina of Travels and Trifles
Silent Sunday

Thursday Thoughts – The Cats of Kotor
Kotor has got one of the best preserved medieval Old Towns in the Adriatic and is a double Unesco World Heritage Site. No sun when we visited, but still beautiful –

When you visit this old town, you will immediately notice how many cats there are… Lonely Planet even goes so far as featuring Kotor in their Top 10 destinations for cat lovers! So, the Venetian Lion, symbol of the city, has more or less been replaced by a smaller variety – a stray cat.
Today they have dedicated an open square to the cats, and made small houses for them to stay in the park. Even with free WiFi…
The attitude towards cats is said to have developed from folklore, with the Montenegrin people holding the belief that cats saved the town of Kotor. It is reported that in 1918, during the revolt from the Austro-Hungarian navy, the Slav sailors would bring their ships into The Bay of Kotor, and with them, also their cats.
Kotor in those days was plagued by lots of mice, rats and snakes, and the various diseases those animals brought. Thus it became a blessing to have the cats there, to protect the town. And that is why cats have become a symbol of good luck for Montenegro.
Walking through the narrow lanes, I did try to find a dog or two…but the only sign (!) of one was – MILO. My own dog – it’s just that this Milo was a restaurant…
Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday Photo Challenge – Yard
For Frank this week. I’d love a yard with trees, leaves, cats – and wine as a roof.
Macro Monday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #85 – Treasure Hunt
This week Tina wants us to go on a Treasure Hunt! Our challenge is to search for specific items – either from your archives or newly captured – from the list below. Extra credit items are a bit harder to find, as are multiple items in a single image. Focus on quality over quantity and hit us with your best shot(s)!
- Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall
- Extra Credit Items: An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow, multiple challenge items in a single image.
Sunset is a moment where all emotions are experienced: Melancholy, amazement, intoxication, casuistry, admiration, love, sadness…
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In the opener – sunset, seascape, birds and boats in The Netherlands. The other scenes were found in Bhutan, Tibet and Poland.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! – William Butler Yeats
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. – Twyla Tharp
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.– Roger Caras
This Boxer-like sweetie gave me a real fright. When I was passing this shop, he suddenly jumped up at the desk – the shop owner looked a bit shocked as well…I had to be quick to catch the moment!

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. – Magdalena Neuner
An old photo, but I still remember these lovely Tibetan ladies waiting for market customers – and making a useful time of it. They were very shy, but smiling when I asked about their knitting and told them I knitted too.
All my images are self-portraits, even when I’m not in them.
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I met this beautiful lady on the pilgrim trail to Taktshang (Tiger’s Nest) in Paro. She stopped to offer some nuts and dried fruit (I was a bit poorly looking…), and then passed me with a vigorous step – reaching the temple at least half an hour before I did. She was 75, and no sign of panting in the thin air…
Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me. – A.D. Williams
We were fortunate to see the national animal of Bhutan – the rare Takin. Folklore has it that the animal with a goat’s head and a cow’s body was created by The Divine Madman, a famous holy man from Tibet. The Takin lives in the alpine zones, at 1000-4500 meters height, and weighs about 300kg.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.
― Plato
I enjoyed these skilled street musicians for almost an hour, in Lodz, Poland. Not until after uploading the photos, I noticed the spooky thing behind the musician to the left…
Thank you, Amy, for the fun Narrow theme last week!
A Special Announcement: All of us at Lens-Artists are delighted to announce that the March 7th challenge (#87) will be hosted by our special guest host, Miriam Hurdle at The Shower of Blessings Please be sure to visit Miriam’s site on Saturday, March 7th to view her challenge. For the rest of February and March, we’ll follow our usual weekly schedule:
- Feb. 29–Patti of P.A. Moed
- March 7–Miriam of The Shower of Blessings
- March 14 – Ann-Christine of Leya
- March 21 – Amy of The World is A Book
- March 28– Tina of Travels and Trifles



















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