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  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: (Phone) Camera

    Registering the bend matching the mountain top.   Registering self with the marina as the background         This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and While Photo Challenge: Camera. Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Back of Things

    Back of people   Back of a tractor   Back of a waterfall (this one may also be featured in the CCY challenge since, as I took the colors out, the flattening became even worse. I almost decided not to include it in here, but I still like the idea of seeing the back of the Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

    I could be here talking eternally about changes that happened in my life. How I moved to a different country, how my life changed when I had my first kid. Then how it changed when I had my second kid! All the changes in jobs, including the many that happen on my current one (a Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Perspective

    You know when you forget to lock your cell phone screen after taking a picture, and ends up shooting something you never intended to? It happens to me all the time, and that was how I got to have those pictures on my cloud backup.   This post was written in response to Cee’s Black Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public Transportation

    The rich and the poor… This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and While Photo Challenge: Public Transportation. Read more

  • Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: (Things with) Engines or Motors

    At a certain point on one of my favourite trails, we find scattered into the vegetation the remaining parts of an old Ford truck, that was left behind when that land was  sold, and the old mill that used to run there moved somewhere else. The truck is not reallly recognizable anymore and the most Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath My Feet

    I am the happiest when there is a trail beneath my feet. Always! And especially if they’re with me…   This post was written is response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet. Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Sloot & Quote Challenge – Pleasure

    That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe   This post was written about a month late in response to the Ese’s Weekly Sloot & Quote Challenge – Pleasure Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

    a native-american-like tent written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

    This is not the first time I feature this object in my site, but here it goes again, since I do like him a lot. My Blue Gecko! – trying to get to my plant (the first time it showed up here was on this post) written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Object Read more

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

    Written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Family Read more

  • Ese’ s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Buzz

    Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need. Amy Whitehouse Although for me is actually only 2 times a week. On the other days I go for walks, not the gym…   Written in response to Ese’ Read more

  • Travel Theme: Silver

    Celebrating the fact that I’ll be close to my favorite trail again soon. Can’t wait! This post was written in response to Where’s my Backpack’s Travel theme: Silver Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate

    I admit being guilty… The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Allure

    The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Read more

  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reflections and Shadows

    Cell phone reflecting the trees and sky (and a bit of the camera too…) This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Reflection and Shadows Read more

  • Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wheels

    Have you ever seen a tree on wheels?   This post was written in response to the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Wheels Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession

    I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth   written in response to the Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession Read more

  • 2 in 1: Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Bridges and Signs

    The past few weeks have been so crazy that I managed to select photos for the Bridges challenge, but never found the time to post them. Ans today is the last day of the signs one, which I must confess I wanted to create even before I knew Cee would post a challenge about it. So here it Read more

  • Thursday Lingering Look at Windows: Hotel room

    Today, my contribution to the Thursday Lingering Look at Windows shows the window and the view from the hotel room we stayed in recently on a trip to California. Read more