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Makarska, Croatia Shadows

I prepared this post in response to the Life of B’s November Shadows square photo challenge. Her guidance states: “I am… mostly focusing on dark shapes, silhouettes and reflective shadows. The dictionaries highlight that shadows can also be an illusory image, a remnant of a thing, an imitation, an inseparable companion and of course partialContinue reading “Makarska, Croatia Shadows”

Sweet Summery Snapshots from Sweden

In this post, I share several snapshots of strawberries from a trip to Sweden over the Midsummer holiday. Midsummer, or Midsommar in Swedish, occurs on the June summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. While many European countries mark the solstice, Midsummer celebrations are most common in the Scandinavian countriesContinue reading “Sweet Summery Snapshots from Sweden”

Monday Window in Bratislava, Slovakia

Window boxes filled with bright and cheery red geraniums liven up the dark and dreary austere façade of a functionalist style apartment building in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. I took this photo from the window of the room where my husband and I stayed when we visited friends in the city. Our friends enjoyedContinue reading “Monday Window in Bratislava, Slovakia”

Monochrome Monday Nature-Art Meld

In this photo I took in Vail, Colorado, USA in July 2024, an aspen tree and Whitaker Wind Sculpture meld together in a seamless and organic way. I like how the bean-like features of the copper “Double Helix Horizontal” wind sculpture do double-duty as the “eyes” of the aspen tree’s chalky white trunk. The darkContinue reading “Monochrome Monday Nature-Art Meld”

Thursday Doors in Dalmatia, Croatia

The setting for my Thursday Doors* post is Croatia’s coastal Dalmatia region, a distinctive spot on the globe where the Adriatic Sea and the Dinaric Alps mountain range converge to create stunningly beautiful and dramatic photogenic effects. I focus on doors in three areas in Dalmatia: the town of Makarska, the island of Brač, andContinue reading “Thursday Doors in Dalmatia, Croatia”