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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue
Posted on August 31, 2014
The Challenge this week – to link two photos that ‘speak’ to each other. Tricky!
Anyway here goes. From MB’s Sudan trip last week –
Two Western ladies, wearing fashionable designer labels, meet a dreadlock-haired Sufi Muslim man in Khartoum. Moments later the Sufi man is dancing with fellow Sufis, all wearing cloths that date back a thousand years, and some!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
Posted on August 26, 2014
MB was in Sudan in recent days to attend a wedding ceremony. MB received his henna hand tattoo two days before the party to ensure he was fully prepared to enter the fray!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Posted on August 8, 2014
This week’s photo challenge – Texture
The setting sun glistens like a million diamonds on the water at Dubai Creek.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
Posted on August 1, 2014
Stopped on the Tralee/Dingle road for a few moments late June, to capture the patchwork of farmers fields sweeping down to the Atlantic Ocean shoreline, formed by the zigzag lines of boundary trees & bushes.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’
Posted on July 26, 2014
The Wedding Photos.
Spotted this group late June back home on Ballybunion beach in South West Ireland. A bit cliched for this week’s challenge I’ll grant you!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers
Posted on July 18, 2014
This week it’s Containers!
The Watercube (swimming arena) for the Beijing Olympics was designed by PTW architects (& Arup Engineers) from Australia who won the design competition by popular vote. The square cubic shape represents the Chinese symbol for earth, while the circular shape of the Bird’s Nest Stadium in the background represents Heaven. The design on the outer skin of the Watercube was inspired by the random shape of soap bubbles.
MB took this shot approx 4 years back on a visit to Beijing, from the high floor level bar of a nearby hotel. Quality of the pic not great due to the bar window reflections.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic
Posted on July 11, 2014
This weeks challenge is looking for relics.
Saw this ‘about to be poured concrete slab’ support structure whilst traveling in Yemen 3 or 4 years back. This construction method disappeared tens of years ago in more more technically advanced countries where adjustable steel props/poles are now used exclusively for the purpose.
Summer Solstice Morning
Posted on June 21, 2014
21 June 2014. Sunrise. Circa 5am. Grange Stone Circle. Limerick. South West Ireland.
The Gods gifted a clear sky and the the sun rose. A heavenly experience.
See also previous post.
A picture paints a thousand words. So MB gives you thirty six thousand words. So to speak.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Room
Posted on June 6, 2014
The entrance lobby/foyer of the Meydan Hotel, Dubai. The hotel is part of the Meydan horse race-track grandstand complex.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-second Story
Posted on June 6, 2014
To tell a story in a single shot.
Midday ferry crossing in Istanbul a few weeks back.
The night before!
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