Mirror | The Daily Post

This week’s challenge is all about reflections. Show us a mirror. You can take this photo challenge literally, and find reflections in mirrors, or in the stillness of a natural body of water. Or, use this challenge to take a photo of yourself in the mirror. Self-documentation is important, especially for those of us who are usually behind the lens.

Source: Mirror | The Daily Post

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Purakanui Inlet, on the coast (obviously), just north of Dunedin on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island.

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Lulu loves the wind in her face…we finally got her to accept that it was a better idea to keep her feet inside the car. She’s an old dog now, but still loves going for a drive..she’s not quite up to getting up on the deck on her own now so we have a little loading ramp in the garden for her to board and debus…

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The prototype Fisher XP-75 in the old experimental hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio…a memento of a brief era when a highly-polished surface equalled a few more miles per hour in maximum speed…

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I have no idea what this building is but it is opposite the Thon Hotel in Brussels. I always preferred to stay in town when working in Brussels: yes, it was a 30 minute bus ride to work each morning but the evenings, we explored all the eateries, bars and alleyways around the Borse…

Time | The Daily Post

This week, think about time and portray it photographically. Perhaps you have a fascination with clocks. Or maybe contemplating time takes you somewhere else completely.

Source: Time | The Daily Post

My first thought on reading the title was “…time is fleeting…madness takes control…” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s all-time classic track, Time Warp…yes, I know the second phrase is “…madness takes its toll…” but I like my version better…

My second was the temporal irony of the Star Wars saga…the second time I saw Star Wars (the first I was just too blown away for any coherent thought) I just wanted it to go on and on and never end…the first (and ever subsequent) time I saw The Phantom Menace, I just wanted the pain to stop, for it to be over now, now, now…

I can talk about time, I can write about time, but photo time…? Hmmm…

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Bed time

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Time for a cold one…

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Play time…

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Breakfast time

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The passage of time…

 

Daily Prompt: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry… | The Daily Post

Photographers, artists, poets: show us DINNER via Daily Prompt: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry… | The Daily Post.

Random dinners…some flash, others expedient…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | The Daily Post

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Inside the box…these are a bit hard to find so I was a bit miffed to learn that the reason that it had been all sealed up inside a plastic bag was to conceal that one of the wings was missing…
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Hidden away inside the bush…Imperial War Museum Duxford 100 Inside the prototype Concorde…Mulcher Mess

What builds up inside the mulcher…actually this only started to happen when we shifted to a new servicer and stopped when we (finally) moved to another…Raurimu wagon wheel - Jul 04 - 3

The ‘nice’ lounge lights inside our home when we moved in

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Inside a very cool shop in Brussels…
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…a good day to be inside…

via Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside | The Daily Post.

Daily Prompt: Food for the Soul (and the Stomach) | The Daily Post

Photographers, artists, poets: show us FOOD.

One of things that I really enjoy when travelling to Western Europe over any other destination is the dedicated food shops…I don’t think you really find anything quite like these anywhere else, nor the range of products…
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…my favourite restaurant in Brussels, Chez Vincent which does the best steak on the planet…and the scampi a l’ail is pretty damn good: I always have one meal here whenever I visit Brussels…it’s a bit pricey but well worth it…
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…seafood on display in Brussels…

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…Belgian chocolate…I always bring a KG or two home with me…DSCF6445

…and Belgian beer…where else can you go where a dairy has 400 flavours of beer and only one type of crisps…? This picture is the window of the appropriately-named Bier Tempel…
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…gateau in Ieper…

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…and cheeses in Amsterdam…I would love to be able to toss one of these in my suitcase to bring home…

via Daily Prompt: Food for the Soul (and the Stomach) | The Daily Post.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Daily Post

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The deep blue of descending night against the stark white stone of the Menin Gate in Ieper, Belgium…during the daily remembrance ceremony that has been conducted every night since 1928..

My totally random take on the theme of colour…a quick scroll through the last few years of pictures…in no particular order…just colours….

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It is what the sign appears to say…The Beer Temple’ shop in Brussels…well worth a few hours browsing and a few euro expended…

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A bright London bus against the drab city (it was a drab sort of day)…

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No idea what these are – big lighty things outside my room at the Radisson LAX…

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The Matchbox Walrus box-art was always very orange and is well-captured in this 3D recreation at Scale Modelworld in Telford 2011…

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Purty crimson looks out of place in this special ops helicopter display at the USAF Museum near Dayton, OH.

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The for-real Mother Of All Bombs in bright colours at the USAF Armament Museum at Eglin…looks more like Resene display…

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My place of work at home – not sure if this is before, during or after a tidy up…

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The morning after snow – crystal-clear blue sky…

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A colourful character…

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Good use of colour by Lily aged 5

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…and Lily aged 5…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color | The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

On the general theme of reflections this week…

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After a big storm  blew the top off our water tank in 2010, we had a reflecting pool just outside our bedroom window til the Great Team Effort of Boxing Day 2012, fitted a new roof…(we replaced the tank anyway because the ripping-off of the rook also did quite a bid of damage to the plastic liner so it leaks quite a bit but is handy for car ashing, garden watering, etc…

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I guess this is the second order effect of reflection…everything here looks so bright and clear after a snow fall because the white snow reflects the sunlight and delivers such delicious contrasts…

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Waiting for the 471 bus at Gare du Nord in Brussels one morning a couple of month ago….an airliner contrail (you can just make it out as a vertical streak in the centre) was reflected all the way up the glass of both buildings…I couldn’t get the camera settings right to capture as spectacularly as it looked…then the bus came…

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Many prototype aircraft meet the criteria for “….shiiineeee…” These are the highly reflective natural metal surfaces of the Fisher P-75 fighter at the National Air Force Museum near Dayton, OH.

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It can be particularly reflective in Brussels…either that or there was a window washing blitz…

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Purakanui, on the east coat of the South Island of New Zealand…a tidal inlet where the water is mirror smooth most days between tides….

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