Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

This was a challenging challenge. Not because I never look up, but rather because I look up a lot and have a gazillion shots that fit the bill. Maybe I’ll post several times…? 🙂

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Marilyn and some peepers, in Palm Springs, California.

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Now, *that* was unexpected… In Dijon, France.

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Can’t stop loving this shot. Look how beautifully entangled these trees are…! Los Angeles, California.

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Karim Abdul-Jabbar. Someone we all must look up to. At Staples Center, Los Angeles.

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Look up and make eye contact. In Venice, Italy.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant

For this week’s photo challenge Michelle invites us to share images that say Jubilant.

This little guy was screaming and giggling so hard, even the savvy Santa Monica Pier seagulls were a bit taken aback by his jubilation.

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The pigeons at San Marco Square, in Venice, were not bothered by this girl’s jubilation. Jubilant_DSC1302

But there is no bigger expression of jubilation than the roar of adoring soccer fans after a goal.Web_DSC0470_edited-1

Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

When I visited the Neue Pinakothek in Munich last month, one painting caught my eye from a distance. It was Ferdinand Hodler‘s “Tired of Life,” a very large oil painting depicting five men sitting on a bench, their posture and facial expressions conveying extreme disillusionment and hopelessness. I decided to photograph each one’s face separately to capture the artist’s vision of what it looks like to have had enough of life. I found these images disturbingly touching.

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The painting. “Die Lebensmüden” (Tired of Life), Ferdinand Hodler, 1892.

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