Inside an inactive gold mine in Ouro Preto, Brazil.
Looking out the window of my hotel room in Ouro Preto, Brazil.
Kaya looks out the window of our living-room in Washington, D.C.
At Ray’s Restaurant, at the LA County Museum of Art, the tables have little drawers. Inside them, you’ll find your napkin, fork and knife. Loved it!
This entry is part of Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/photo-challenge-inside/
This week’s Travel Theme is “Multicoloured.” Well, I didn’t need to go very far from home for that… Most shots were taken at Venice Beach, California, most definitely a vert colorful place!
For more on this week’s Travel Theme go to: http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/09/13/travel-theme-multicoloured/
I was in New York last Fall and visited the 9/11 Memorial, still under construction at the time. Needless to say, it was an emotional visit. Like most people in the world, I was terribly shocked and saddened by those senseless attacks. We were living in Washington, D.C. at the time, but on vacation in Brazil that day. Watching the images of the Twin Towers and the chaos in New York, as well as the Pentagon, I felt a terrible sense of loss, anguish, and, for some strange reason, guilt for not being there for my friends and colleagues in D.C.
I have a new passion: Brown Pelicans! They are so beautiful, so gracious. I love how they fly in perfect formation and how they plunge-dive to catch small fish, coming very close to the shore, sharing the space with swimmers and surfers. It’s an awesome spectacle. I’m glad they are no longer in extinction!
This is how the Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes the Brown Pelican:
“The Brown Pelican is a comically elegant bird with an oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body. Squadrons glide above the surf along southern and western coasts, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves. They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up. They are fairly common today—an excellent example of a species’ recovery from pesticide pollution that once placed them at the brink of extinction.”
I shall improve on my shots of these lovely birds, but for now here’s some I took last Friday in Santa Monica.
This week’s photo challenge is “An Unusual Point of View.” Here’s mine… 🙂
Alexander Liberman’s sculpture “Phoenix” is a permanent installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA. While photographing it, my eye caught the iPad billboard in the background. I thought it might be interesting to make it part of one of the shots. 🙂
For more Unusual POV see: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/unusual/
This week’s word challenge is “ornate.” The word made me thing immediately of Barcelona‘s beautiful –and very ornate– concert hall, the Palau de La Música Catalana. The Palau was designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and built between 1905 and 1908. It is quite stunning and I only regret not having had time to attend a concert in that magnificent venue.
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-word-a-week-challenge-ornate-week-44/
This week’s photo challenge is “Sea.”
If we were to get technical, I couldn’t post anything as I don’t have photos of any of the world’s “seas.” However, since in popular language “ocean” and “sea” are used interchangeably, I will ignore that there is a difference between them and post photos of the beautiful Pacific Ocean on the California coast. 🙂
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/weekly-photo-challenge-sea/
I love how blue and yellow look together. And blue is my favorite color. 🙂
http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/08/27/cees-fun-foto-challenge-blue-and-yellow/
The color pink. It’s a happy color. Some love it, some hate it. I think I love it…
This entry is part of http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/a-word-a-week-challenge-pink/
Marathon runners at the 2013 LA Marathon.
This entry is part of Daily Prompt: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/daily-prompt-effort/
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