Friendly Friday Photo Challenge

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What is Friendly Friday?

The Friendly Friday Photo Challenge is about community and interacting with other bloggers. It’s a weekly blogging challenge where participants have an opportunity to share photographs from their world in a post based on, or around, the weekly theme. Everyone is welcome to join in.

Friendly Friday is hosted by bloggers Amanda, from ‘StPA’ (Something to Ponder About) and Sandy at The Sandy Chronicles.

Weekly Theme

As I now live in a home by the sea and was posting about a recent Michelin star seafood meal, the theme for this week’s Friendly Friday is: –

‘Sea Creatures‘

‘Sea creatures‘ covers anything from coral or seafood, to fishing, street photography, artwork, or shells. Your imagination is your only limit.

Nothing beats a meal of sea urchin and walnut tofu! Yes, I did eat it all!

What kind of sea creatures can you find for Friendly Friday?

Finding decorative sea creatures is a bonus.

Friendly Friday Photo Challenge

• The challenge runs for one week, from Friday to the following Thursday, when the new weekly theme will be posted.
• The Challenge is hosted on alternate weeks by StPA and The Sandy Chronicles
• Leave a comment here to indicate you have joined the challenge.
• Include a pingback/tag your post so we don’t miss your post.

Need more information on Joining Friendly Friday?

A Seachange

A Home by the Sea

How does one handle change?

Change might be disruptive and jolting, a shock to the system but it also heralds new possibilities and opportunities.

I will soon be moving to a new location. A new house, new area, new neighbours. It is exciting but a little daunting.

Some of you know that we have been prepping for this move for over a year and soon it will become reality. Add to that, I will be semi-retired- whatever that means?

Have you some moving tips for me? Last year when I moved to my current townhouse, I become stressed out and exhausted. I used to be an ace at moving house, when I was in my twenties and moving flats every year or so.

Thirty years on, I am older and need some tips on making it less stressful.

I would love to hear your suggestions.

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Friendly Friday Photo Challenge – Ebb and Flow

Positive and Negative in the River Nid in Trondheim

Everyone is welcome to join in the Friendly Friday Photography challenge.

This challenge is alternately hosted each Friday by the bloggers:
Amanda from Something to Ponder About , Snow from The Snow Melts Somewhere and also helping Snow out here and there, Manja from Manja Mexi Moving.

The prompt for this Friday is [drum roll]:

Ebb and Flow

Think of the cyclic changes in the tides, the comings and goings of life, recurrent patterns of decline and growth. An awakening, an ageing and a rebirth.

When I think of Ebb and flow, I think of the beach; the sandy shores gently eroding away in the warm tropical summers and returning and reconstructing in winter – a seamless transition.

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I am reminded of how ebb complements flow – the yin and the yang; logic versus intuition – opposing forces that unite together. Up and down, positive and negative.

Up and Down with the Bicycle Lift

For this Friendly Friday – show me what Ebb and Flow means to you.

Spread the word around your blog community, so others can join in too.

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Instructions for Joining:

• Publish a ‘Friendly Friday – Ebb and Flow,’ post and include a URL link to this post, and a ‘Friendly Friday’ Tag.
• Once published, paste the URL for your Friendly Friday ‘Ebb and Flow ’ post, in the comments here, so we can find you and visit your blog.
• Include in your post the Friendly Friday logo, found below, if you wish.
• Please note there are no deadlines for participating. New prompts are posted each week alternately at the host blogs.
• Be a part of the Friendly Friday Community and visit the links in the comments section. It’s fun and interesting to see another person’s take on the prompt.

Important Notice – As Snow is feeling a little ‘snowed under’ at the moment with everything she has to do, our dear blogger friend Manja, from Manja Mexi Moving has kindly agreed to step in and help Snow out with Friendly Friday challenge on the alternate weeks, for a short while. Snow will tell you more about this next week, but you next week check out Manja’s blog for the photo challenge.

From Amanda

Travel Theme – Behind

When I first read the post on Travel theme – Behind, I thought that I’d be hard pressed to find many photos to fit the theme. But then I realized rear facing photos can add another dimension to photography. Here is my list of tips on photography from behind.

My Ten Tips for Photography from Behind

1. A shot taken from behind can set the tone and be made far more interesting. Some pensive brooding by my daughter, on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.

What was she thinking? She hates road trips, so perhaps it was that, or maybe she was a little bored with the scenery? Surely not! Look at it!

 

2. Sometimes you can get an unexpected shot from behind!

[Take note, this one is for you, Peggy!!]

3. Sometimes the best angle is found from behind! 

A Street entertainer in Brisbane, Australia.

4. The mood of a photo can be changed with a posterior shot!

Without the teen standing there, it might have been just another seascape. Instead, it became dramatic and I was concerned for the boy’s safety at at Ballina, Northern NSW.

 

5. A shot focusing behind can draw attention to where you want viewers to look.

Looking down the Floibanen, Bergen, Norway

and direct the eye…

Copenhagen Town hall tower, Denmark

6. Subjects don’t always need to be looking directly at the camera lens.

Sheep in Golfjellet, Norway

 

 

7. Sometimes the subject begs to be photographed from behind!

A garden ornament in Whitby, New Zealand

 

8. The rear shot can be humorous, enhanced by nature, or man!

No, it wasn’t me who did this!  Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo

 

9. The background behind can emphasize the message you are trying to convey

Art Exhibition by Ron Mueck

 

10. There is also the metaphorical meaning to one’s theme.

Art Exhibition by Ron Mueck

Pondering about something behind one’s back?

 Something to Ponder About

 

A Good Match

A good match goes together like birds of a feather!

or Gog and Magog

Gog and Magog, Great Ocean Road, Australia

Nothing can separate the mermaid from her rock

or good friends:  we are a Good match!

Not something to take for granted.

A Good Match is the weekly theme in WPC

Something to Ponder About

Weekly Photo Challenge – Forces of Nature

Snapper Rocks, Coolangatta, Australia

 

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Forces of Nature.”

In Australia, a country aged by the wind, sun and sea, we see many examples of nature’s work and Forces of Nature.

I am drawn to the sea, as most of us are, who cling to the more hospitable coastal regions of Australia for hearth and home.

The limestone structures that survive, here on Australia’s southern coastline, defy wind, rain, tempest and frothing sea and are an example of natural endurance against the continual pounding of the ocean and are geologically, if not also aesthetically, interesting.

Gog and Magog, Great Ocean Road, Australia

London Bridge – that fell down stranding tourists

Captured on a very basic Auto focus camera, with the exception of the first photograph, taken with a Nexus 4 and edited with Picasa.

The forces of nature – Something to Ponder About

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

WordPress has come up with, what I feel sure will be, a very popular topic, for the photo challenge. Why not join in: here

The layers of sediment in the limestone rocks along the Great Ocean Road at the southern edge of the Australian continent are amazing and beautiful natural structure, sculptured by the relentless pounding of the Southern ocean and the “Roaring Forties”.
Sailors must have had to be so cautious sailing in these realms. Something to ponder about today.

Other bloggers participating in this challenge:

http://perceptivepotcluelesskettle.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/weekly-photo-challenge-sea/

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