Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

From WordPress the challenge this week is Saturated – and what can be more saturated than orchids? Here are some of my favourites – cattleyas, vandas and others.

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Desire

I know, I know…I have used this picture before…but – those greedy fingers are irresistable!

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

From lines to patterns. We see lines and patterns in the world around us, in nature and things man-made. Sometimes we don’t realize they’re there: on the street, across the walls, up in the sky, and along the ground on which we walk.

Here are my choices, taken from my world.

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Bare

This challenge is a real challenge…not easy. My choice is Art by Gaudí for the theme. His life and nature theme is strong and holistic.  Click here  to meet more of Bare.

      Layer by layer art strips life bare.

       Robert Musil

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

In Madrid there is an excellent park with interestingly pruned trees –

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 947 – I couldn’t resist taking a look inside...

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 956Even if the light is difficult, it was an interesting view!

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Loneliness

Time for a new shoot and quote – click here.

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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Doug Coupland

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual Point of View

What’s unusual? Well, angles of course, but much more, maybe. Here are some shots from the trip to Germany and Walsrode!

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Feel

Feel, that is something we all do. The quote chosen for today’s challenge was given to us by the Dalai Lama.

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Karön och sommar 2013 058 Sommarens sista 014 Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Open

This week’s Shoot and Quote from Ese is about being Open. When the students are flown out in the world, the corridor looks something like this…

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We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Gordon B Hinckley

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Beginning

Beginning is the prompt from Ese in her new challenge. Read more about it and join in!

Detta foto togs idag på Hallands Väderö – en fin dag för att introducera nya elever!

My photo was taken today at Hallands Väderö on the west coast of Sweden, where we had our introduction days for the new students.

Hallands Väderö 2013 029You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi