Category Archives: Weekly Photo Challenge

RIP (OFF) DAILY POST AND WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE

Posted on June 8, 2018 by colonialist

The world is crazy. People are obsessed with throwing away proven successes or improving things until they no longer work — or are far harder to operate than before. MS Windows is a case in point. Note the thin blue … Continue reading →

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Twisty Paths and Greenery

Posted on May 25, 2018 by colonialist

For The Weekly Photo Challenge of Twisted I am revisiting the garden I got the slide from, where one can really do a visual Chubby Checker.  The most impressive twist is that most of the garden doesn’t look like a garden … Continue reading →

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Launchplace for Fantasy Worlds

Posted on May 12, 2018 by colonialist

My Place in the World is, as visitors may have noticed, in a little city called Durban set on the southeast coast of Africa. Naturally, I have a wealth of choice when it comes to pictures of that area but … Continue reading →

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Wildly Unlikely

Posted on May 6, 2018 by colonialist

This is, of course, a picture of pictures I took for the cover, but that isn’t what makes it unlikely. More unlikely is that one would ever get a peek at a peak so exactly shaped like a rhino, as … Continue reading →

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Got Lines — Misbehaved?

Posted on May 6, 2018 by colonialist

The Current Photo Challenge is on the Lines of lines, so I’ve lined up a trio taken recently with lines in abundance.   © May 2018  Colonialist

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Water Untide and Ran Away

Posted on January 29, 2018 by colonialist

And, with this, and the one below, it can also form the basis for the current Photo Challenge Variations on a Theme!    © January 2018 Colonialist  

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A moment when sound seems to stop.

Posted on January 20, 2018 by colonialist

The memorial service for our friend was held yesterday. It went smoothly despite me having to write out some of the music from memory late the night before, and a few last-minute glitches at the Chapel. In the evening his … Continue reading →

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Some Things Temporary: of Consuming Interest, and of Temper Rare, She!

Posted on November 14, 2017 by colonialist

The current Photo Challenge theme of Temporary  suggested these to me today:                                           ©   November 2017 Colonialist         … Continue reading →

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Rounded off Squarely

Posted on October 27, 2017 by colonialist

It has been over a week since I got a round to post, and the previous one squeezed in the Weekly Photo Challenge so I may as well painfully contrive to drag that into this one as well; therefore the pictures … Continue reading →

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Not as in War King*

Posted on October 8, 2017 by colonialist

The photo challenge now running is actually walking — as in Pedestrian And on that theme, a quote from The Mouse in my Baa Baa Black Belt: “ ‘…what strikes you when you cross a chirping insect with a flying … Continue reading →

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