Picture This #366 ~ Summer Fun

Many thanks to Heidi for hosting this week. Yes, I think we should do a summer theme before it disappears for another year. I think it may have already gone here, it's raining, strong winds and dark clouds. More like autumn!!

Here are mine: 

1) Stopping for coffee and cake while out walking on a summer's day.

2) Taking funny photos in the summer sunshine.

3) Strolling through fields of buttercups while walking in the countryside.

4) Having ice-cream on the beach.

Getting wet on the water-flume ride!!

PICTURE THIS #366 SUMMER FUN

HI ALL!! 

AS SUMMER STARTS TO WANE I THOUGHT WE COULD DO 'SUMMER FUN'.

ANYTHING YOU LIKE THAT YOU DID THIS SUMMER OR LOVE TO DO IN SUMMER.

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE THEME. I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.

                                

MEETING FRIENDS FOR COFFEE.

PLAYING TOURIST.  

ENJOYING THE BEACH AND SWIMMING.  

ENJOYING BEER AND TALK IN THE SQUARE.  

SHOPPING AT THE MARKET FOR ALL THOSE SUMMER GOODIES.  

MEETING FRIENDS IN THE EVENING FOR HAPPY HOUR IN THE WARM SUMMER EVENING.

PICTURE THIS #365 ~ ART

Congratulations, Mitch, for the very nice banner image. I love the theme for this week. Aren't we surrounded by art, though sometimes we don't notice it?

It was not easy to select which of which photos in my folders I should post for the theme. I wanted to share with you something a bit different from what we commonly call art. Hope you like the photos below.

Urban art - seen at a suburban neighbourhood close to Lisbon.

Nature creates excellent pieces of art...

Cake styling is an art, isn't it?

 

Who hasn't heard of the Japanese art of folding paper (Origami)?
The photo shows how to make a warrior hat

Picture This #365 ~ Art

Thanks for hosting Mitch and for the great banner - yes the good old days of the AA road signs.

Looking though my photos I do not seem to have many new and original art photos, so I will have to perhaps look at it from another angle.

I was at my son's wedding last year in the Mosel area of Germany. Whilst there my son took me on a visit to the small town of Traben Trarbach on the Mosel. I took this photo whilst there. I believe it was some sort of memorial inmemory of one of the professors that lived in the town, as it was outside the local school.

I found this grave on the central cemetery in Vienna quite interesting with its many birds sculpture.

I took this in New York way back in 1993, I think on 5th Avenue. I am sure it is not longer there, not a great art work, but New York.

And I am now sneaking this one in as it is not often that I succeed in taking a photo which could almost be called macro, although I do not yet have my macro lens, should arrive next week. It is a

An Echinacea flower complete with bee. One of my attempts at manual photography and I think I am getting somewhere. Yes, our photos are also works of art. We do not paint them, but everything has to be in the right place at the right time, and I think I did not do too badly with this one.

PICTURE THIS #365 ~ ART

HI ALL FROM A VERY SUNNY AND HOT GERMANY!!

A WONDERFUL BANNER MITCH,

ALSO A COOL THEME ~~~ART~~~~~

                                    

THE PYRAMIDS. HUGE ART. 

THE BAPTISTRY IN PISA. A GREAT WORK OF ART.

THIS LITTLE GUY IS A REAL WORK OF ART BY WOOD WORKERS.  

RODIN'S THE THINKER. AN ORIGINAL GIVEN TO THE SF LEGION OF HONOUR BY FRANCE.  

ST. MARKS IN VENICE. A REAL WORK OF ART INSIDE AND OUTSIDE.

PT CCCLXV ~ Art

Terrific banner and theme by Mitch.

Here are my three examples of art. The first one is from Louisiana Art Museum - the suggestive globes stood on the grounds outside the museum. The second one was set on a bench in a little park and the third one stood in the middle of an enclosure in the midst of the same park.

Picture This #365 ~ Art

Good morning and good day!! Wonderful banner shot by Mitch. It seems that here in the USA whenever we have something old and picturesque we replace it with something new, modern, (and often plastic).

Great theme, here are my pictures:

Cliff paintings in Canada. The paintings were done about 500 years ago and were bright red until about 40 years ago when they started fading due to acid rain.

A green glass plate.

Sunset in oil by a young man on the beach.

Picture This #365 ~ Art

Hello everyone, this is Mitch. I'll be your host this week. Apologies for the late posting, I've been having connection problems. When you say the word 'ART' to many people they immediately think of old paintings hung on the walls of museums or art-galleries, but there is so much more to the word. There are so many things that are covered by 'art'....there's sculpture, pottery, painting, music, photography, installations........all sorts of things!! Let's see your shots of different types of art.

Here are mine:

1) 'Wind Of Change'. A large metallic sculpture in Poole, Dorset, England (I'm not sure if that is the correct name for it or if it's one I gave it, I took the shot back in 2011).

2) Stained Glass is an art-form hundreds of years old. This one is of St.Samson at the St. David's church, Caldey Island, Wales.

3) Floral Frog. A great example of 'flower-art', taken at the conservatory of the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas.

4) Hand-made clay 'face'. Made by one of the students at the Stackpole Mencap Gardens project for young adults with mental health issues.

Picture this #364 ~ Traffic Signs

First of all thank you for having my orchid as a banner picture. I was very surprised to see it there today.

Thankyou Anders for hosting this weeks picture this.

My first photo is a Winter scene on the road to the village of Langendorf in Switzerland: one of our Swiss Road crossing signs.

Our local train has its own signals, much to the disappointment of the car drivers. The train is the law and if the red triangle is showing, you have to wait until the train passes before it turns green again.

Our village is cut off from local world for the summer due to road repair work.

And we have signs everywhere to tell you where you are allowed to walk.

Picture This #364 ~ Traffic Signs

Many thanks to Anders for hosting this week. An interesting theme, with some good possibilities. We have had this theme once before, so I tried to find ones I didn't use previously. 

1) Very old sign, from the days when road signs could be put up by private motoring organisations, in this case the AA (Automobile Association) as well as local councils or the highway authorities. 

2) Another old-fashioned road sign. These are called 'mile-markers' and were used in the early days of road travel, some date back to coaching days, before the motor car came along.

3) Sign for a very steep hill in a local village. I've driven up this lane myself, believe me....it is very steep and narrow. You pray not to meet cars coming in the opposite direction!!!

4) This sign is more for 'foot-traffic' as it indicates the famous Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. I've walked sections of it myself, but never the full length!!

PICTURE THIS #364 ~ TRAFFIC SIGNS

HI ALL!! HOPE ALL ARE WELL. 

PAT, A WONDERFUL BANNER.

ANDERS, A COOL THEME. HOPE MINE ARE OKAY.

IF YOU GO MUCH FASTER ITS THE OCEAN FOR A SWIM.

SELF EXPLANATORY.   

HMMMM......HARD TO DECIDE.   

LOTS TO READ.  

DETOUR, BUT WHICH WAY? HMMMM.......   

WHICH WAY TO THE BOATS IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS. 

Picture This #364 ~ Traffic Signs

Beautiful banner by Pat!!

Welcome and greetings from Sweden. This is Anders and Im your host for this week. My chosen theme is Traffic Signs which proliferate the environment wherever you go to the detriment of uncluttered street photography which I hardly engage in. I hope it will prove a nice challenge for your all. Looking forward to your photos. Best Anders.
Riding Path

Parking Area

Obligation to 'Give Way'