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When I was taking the photograph the other day of the spider and its web in the wheelbarrow, my first shot was out of focus and all I got was a fuzzy shot of the inside of the wheelbarrow. I tried some Post Processing playing and got this cool map looking abstract, or whatever it is! Just liked it and wanted to share! 😍
No post processing (just cropped)
Highest position on Explore #295 on 25th November 2008.
-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite.
7DOS, Week #3 - About Me, Abstract Thursday - Another one from my (recent) archives and again taken for an ODC challenge.
I had an idea in mind, but the execution was too time-consuming considering we're on holiday, and so decided to use this as it represents complexity in some ways. Like my fellow 7DOS member, Sue www.flickr.com/photos/suerobertsnl/ , I am an eternal ex-pat. I don't live in my country of origin and have spent more years living in one foreign culture after the other than I can keep track of these days. It's exciting, but it always requires more effort than you imagine, looking in from the outside, as you have to work to get to know a place, deal with local beauracracy, make friends and adapt to (and even adopt) aspects of the place that is home-for-now, only to have to move on again after a period of time. This is an accident of fate rather than a consciously made decision, on my part at any rate, although there is the argument that nothing is an accident and that our choices determine where we go and what we do in our lives, even if we're not consciously deciding at the time.
I have lived in 7 countries and visited many more, although I've not yet made it to Asia or the USA. I speak 2 languages fluently and 2 more to a functional level (and have picked up and forgotten 2 others along the way). Our little family of Nomads is what is known as a third culture family: typically this is a situation where the parents are from one culture, the child/children are born in another and the family, as a rule, live in a third; in our case, we were all born in different countries and have lived in many more since LG was born 9 years ago.
The list goes on and on… it is an experience that offers us many wonderful and unique experiences, as well as regular challenges. We are fortunate in that it gives us the chance to properly experience cultures different to our own, but at the same time we are increasingly rootless; the inevitable social question "So, where are you from?" is a one for which Mr Nomad and I have a short, cut-off-questions-before-they-start answer and a longer you-really-want-to-know? answer :-) One of the reasons, by the way, that we return to Italy for our summer break is that it's the place in which we've spent the most time as a family and where each of us feels most at home.
ODC - Light It Up Blue (originally shot for this challenge in April 2014)
Part of a massive chandelier in a local shopping mall - seemed apt for today's challenge set by Laurama www.flickr.com/photos/47181226@N05/ in aid of Light It Up Blue - "… a worldwide movement with a mission to raise awareness for autism. April 2 is a World Autism Day and continues through the month of April. Many iconic landmarks, hotels, sporting venues, museums, bridges and stores will participate by lighting up with blue lights. I know the Empire State Building in New York City will be lit blue for this cause. If there are any places local to you participating in Light it up Blue you may be able to capture these lights."
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