Pick a Word – April 2024

Thursdays Special: Pick a Word April 2024

Paula’s words – Sabulous, Brimming, Guarding, Berthing, Bight
Let’s go and see how I did

SABULOUS

BRIMMING

GUARDING

BERTHING

BIGHT

1 A leaf in river gravel
2 Orara River in flood
3 Barbed wire and sunset
4 Gondolas in Venice
5 Sydney from the air

Doors (of Verona)

Dans Thursday Doors

On Mondays Window I posted the Windows of Verona that I found while looking for something else. I also discovered some doors that hadn’t been shown before.

We’ll kick off with the oldest door in The Arena. This door was built in 30AD

Up to the mid 1300’s and the Castlevecchio Museum

I have no idea about the next two doors

My Latin isn’t the best and Roman Numerals…how about the year 933?

My ability to parse in Latin was hopeless but it’s a great door surround

Do you think I had the doors in the right order, from oldest to newest.

Windows (of Verona)

Ludwigs Monday Window

I was looking through my folder and came across some windows of Verona I hadn’t posted before.

Castelvecchio Museum

Castelvecchio Museum Castelvecchio Museum

Inside the Castelvecchio Museum

Church of San Matteo

Street view

Getting around (on a horse)

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge: April 2024

The Original – A carousel in Marseillaise, France

Selective Colour: Purple
Decrease brightness 33%
Increased shadows 44%
Increased Highlights 78%
Increased saturation 56%
Increased black 59%
Increased white 2%
Pulled focus 100%

I again used *Albumen a photo technique 1850 – 1900 after I:-
Decreased brightness -2%
Increased contrast +48%
Increased saturation +63%
Then applied a sepia wash at 68%

Increased saturation 13%
Decreased brightness 11%
Used effects filter Retro-Pop set to 68%
Colour Match 100%

There is only one song to ride a Carousel on with the Hollies

*A print made using albumen paper, popular for photographic printing between 1850 and 1900. Thin paper was coated with a layer of egg-white (albumen) containing salt and sensitized with a silver nitrate solution, then printed using daylight under a negative. The resulting paper had a smooth surface with a fine sheen. Albumen prints could be toned with a gold solution which gave a rich purplish-brown colour to the image and reduced the risk of fading.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/glossary-of-art-terms/albumen-print

Circular (it’s going round)

Lens-Artists Challenge #290: Circular Wonders

Now we can begin our travels to see if there are any circular wonders to be found.
We’ll need these to get round.
In case you were wondering, the price was you’ve got to be joking

We’ll go outside, looking round we can see a carved circular shape in the sandstone wall. That was carved in 1892.

Look up. There’s a dome on the Dali Museum in Figures, Spain

Now everyone has to crouch down for this one. Now look through the hole in the back of the chair. Now, wouldn’t you take a photo too?

Back inside. Now we’re in a small rural hall. They kept the ceiling rose thank goodness when they upgraded the power in the hall. They couldn’t get flouro strips to fit the old ceiling rose.

Speaking of roses, I found this one which is rather circular. Also quite pretty. I have no idea of the name

Look, over there the Banksia is flowering, quite circular looking top down

Of course it’s now look up at the ceiling of the ceiling of The Pantheon, Rome

While we are in Rome we may as well have a look at the ceiling in the Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

The most circular of all are the little sand balls made by a Sand Crab excavating a burrow at low tide

Here’s the little bloke. Let it run for a bit, it will get the correct Sand Crab speed. That is all the frames in a 10 frame/second made intro a GIF. I still don’t know how I managed to get it into my media files. I hope it still works for you

Here we are at the most famous circular I know of Circular Quay in Sydney

Now you’ve been everywhere, so we might as well join Lucky Starr with I’ve Been Everywhere The lyrics are all Australian places

Ancient (to modern)

RDP Sunday: Tile

Tiles found in digs around the Palace de Papa, Avignon. I think they are fabulous remnants from the 15th Century

Old Indonesian tile, maybe from Bali

Roof tiles in France

Floor tiles in the Grafton Cathedral from the 1860’s

A modern design tiling suggestion in a tile shop

Re-Living the Past #28 – My First Door Photos

Dans Thursday Doors

Inspired by Dans digging through the archive, I thought I haven’t done a set of photos that go back in time to photos where doors were either featured or just part of another scene. I am sure there might be a few before Manja nagged me about doing Thursday Doors 😂

A fire place door in a Lismore back lane behind a bakery. It’s where they take the ash out of the fireplace

Just a door in Lismore

The link between two buildings of the Grand Hyatt Seoul South Korea. Either side of the walkway are gardens.

All the doors on the right lead into the conference centre in the Grand Hyatt

This door is from the office where I had a part time job. When they remodelled the servo shop I asked for the very heavy glass door. It is now on the playhouse I built for my daughters.

Please don’t scare this door any more OK?

Everyones favourite from my very first Thursday Doors. It is in Avignon near the Palais des Papes

A lot of people liked this one as well from Avignon

The classic Moorish design in Toledo Spain

All you have to do is obey signs on doors OK?

An old cottage in the Australian bush. I used to drive past a few time a year and only ever took a couple of photos as it’s a fair way off the road. I would have loved to explore inside.

Photos (two a T)

CMMC December Alphabet: Two T’s in a word

Toy TracTor

ShuTTers in Florence

BeeTrooT at the market

BoTTle in the water

BoTTlebrush flower

Blue Tiger BuTTerfly on a BoTTlebrush flower

Long-necked TorToises and a rock

Pied OysTercaTcher taking a stroll