Street Murals – Provocative, Clever, Creative but always interesting.
And another favourite mural here in Melbourne.
Street art makes the boring neighbourhood scene fun even if a little creepy.
Murals at a fish and chip shop and railway subway
I found Sami’s blog and her Monday Mural linky party via Suvi today – funny how I cyber travelled via Suvi in Finland to find another Australian blogger on the other side of my country.
Something to Ponder about
I might live in Australia, where the seasons are upside down, a somewhat moot point if you are Australian, but I am always acutely aware just when Spring has sprung in the Northern hemisphere. That is because the Northern ‘hemispherians,’ often get so excited about the first appearances of spring, their shouts are heard all the way ‘Down Under.’
This time of year, my inbox gets spammed with messages of glee and endless photos from the North, of the first snowdrops buds, or blades of greenery that poke their head through the final remnants of snow.
I can’t say I blame them for having this Spring zeal, as I suspect they are glad to feel some warmth, while I am glad to have a break from the relentless heat. I thought we might celebrate the onset of Spring by making it this week’s Friendly Friday prompt. If you live in the Southern hemisphere, where Spring blurs into Summer, and thence into Autumn, you may have other photos to choose from that make for a different interpretation of the theme. It is entirely up to you.
Create a post sharing your interpretation of this week’s Friendly Friday prompt
– Feelings of Spring
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Something Fun to Ponder About this Friday!
Have you ever experienced a ‘Sliding Door’ moment? Those moments when you made a choice in life, that led to significant changes for you?
They are those moments in life, when you realize it was a Turning Point, which meant that your journey would have looked quite different if you had chosen something else?
We make decisions; we take a variety of paths, at times choosing to be adventurous, spontaneous or at other times, quite conservative.
Later, we reflect on those decisions.
Some of us discover the path we’ve chosen to be too arduous, the scenery too different, that we decided to turn back or even turn away.
On other occasions, taking that wrong ‘turn’ might have led us to incredible discoveries and serendipitous good fortune. Life is often surprising.
The prompt for this week’s Friendly Friday Photography Challenge is:
Create a post sharing your interpretation of the weekly prompt.
It might be a photo of a sign, a threshold, a place to contemplate, or a crossroad; something that represents a Turning Point for you.
Write as much or as little as you like to accompany the photo/s.
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I am looking forward to seeing your Turning Points.
Happy Friday!
Earlier this week, I wrote about the Contrasts that I found on a recent trip to Japan.
This week on Friendly Friday Photography Challenge, I am asking you to create a post on “contrasts.”
Contrasts might not simply be a contrasting subject as in the photo of Nidaros Cathedral above. You could choose to edit and post the same photo, with the second being an edited version with more or less contrast? I added more contrast to the photo on the right below, and I think it creates a slightly different feel. Moodier, darker I think.
You might also consider contrast of size or some other characteristic. It would be hard to find a larger contrast in terms of size differential, than the small Trolls, of Trollstigen, (rock piles), against the backdrop of the larger (mountain), trolls, and the Green Valley, far below.
Sometimes it is old versus new that provides the strongest contrasting photos.
Whatever the contrast, it is really up to you.
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Just like the former WordPress Photo Challenge, we’ll post a prompt each Friday and invite you to create a ‘Friendly Friday,‘ post using one or more photos that relate to the weekly prompt. Everyone is welcome to participate. Beginning or Advanced.
Write as little, or as much, as you like to accompany the photo/s. That part is up to you!
Add a ‘Friendly Friday‘ tag and create a link (or ping) back, so that others can visit you.
Once you hit publish, come back to this post again and leave a comment making sure you include a link to your Friendly Friday post. Find further instructions here.
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There will be another Friendly Friday topic posted over at TheSnowMeltsSomewhere, next Friday. I will be hosting again, in 2 weeks time, here at Something to Ponder About.
Where do think this structure is located?
Every second Monday, I post a new photo of a ‘mystery’ location, and sometimes a mystery object. I invite you to leave a comment if you think you know the location, or what the mystery object might be.
If you guess correctly, I will link back to your blog in the follow-up post, when the answer is revealed. N.B. Comments will be released on alternate Mondays (Australian E.S.T.), so as not to spoil the fun for late-comers to this post.
Contribution and guest posts of Monday mystery photos are very welcome. You can send me the photograph by email. My addy can be found by clicking on my profile.
Many thanks to Banactee for submitting the above photograph.
The photo from Banectee depicted the ancient petroglyphs from the Fajana cemetery on the island of La Palma, Spain in the Canarian Archipelago, thought to be etched by the Indigenous people of the Canary Islands.
“Today, archaeological and ethnographic studies have led most scholars to accept the view that the pre -colonial population of the Canaries shared common origins with North African Berber tribes from the Atlas Mountains region who began to arrive in the Canaries by sea around 1000 BCE or earlier.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands_in_pre-colonial_times
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