Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #47 – The Five Elements

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Our challenge this week, hosted by Amy,  is about the Chinese theory of the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Welcome to join in!

This Theory asserts that the world changes according to the five elements’ generating or overcoming relationships. Generating and overcoming are the complementary processes — the yin and yang — of Five Element Theory.

Generating processes promote development, while overcoming processes control development. By promoting and restraining, systems are harmonized and balance is maintained.

Wood fuels fire

Fire forms earth

Earth contains metal

Metal carries water

 

 

 

 

Friendly Friday Photo Challenge – Illumination

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For Friendly Friday –

The soft sunlight on the clouds, seen from an aeroplane. And then, the inside of Casa Battlo´, with natural illumination and other.

This photo challenge is alternately hosted each Friday by the bloggers:
Something to Ponder About  and The Snow Melts Somewhere

Tuesday Photo Challenge – Vista

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Dear Frank, of My most breathtaking vista, I have no photographs. Machu Pichu was a childhood dream, and I went to Peru in the 1980’s to see it. No camera. When we finally reached the top of the mountain, the Urubamba river down below and the surrounding rainforest oozing thin dew drops along the mountain side…I could hardly breathe. For me, Nothing beats that vista.

So, I will have to give you another one. The Great Wall, the first time I saw it and walked it. Early morning light. Not a sound. That special feeling maybe fades a bit every time you visit, but it is still an impressive sight the fifth time you visit.

Many years later, we traveled on the highest elevated railway in the world – built on permafrost – from Beijing to Lhasa. The plateau on which Lhasa and Tibet is situated, offers stunning vistas every time you look out the window. They have to use extra oxygen in the train because of the height, but feeling ”high” on this journey had nothing to do with the extra oxygen…

These photos are all taken with a simple point and shoot – but highly treasured by me.

CFFC: Hands

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My son has got very slender hands – in Sweden we say ”pianofingrar, pianohänder” – piano fingers or piano hands. So, when I finally bought a new watch last week, my old one being more than 40 years old, I wanted to photograph his hands with the Momo Mase´ instead of mine. He said OK. For Cee.

 

 

 

World Bee Day – Every Day!

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Today is World Bee Day – build them a hotel, plant attractive trees, flowers or herbs, leave a wild space in your garden, work for farmers to leave the edges of their fields for wild flowers, and do not use pesticides!

Did you know that every third bite of your food you eat is only made possible because of pollinating bees?