Bad Weather for Sunday Stills

Today I thought I’d try my hand at showing a bit of recent bad weather as prompted by Sunday Stills.

These two photos are in the hills behind my village in Trentino, Italy:

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The following photos are from a brief visit I took to Padua last week:

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Have a great week…waiting for the sun to shine 😉  Ciao!

Being Infringed

An interesting article which might interest other bloggers who publish/post their photos…

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Last year I wrote a few posts about copyright infringement. In most of the posts it was about legal action being taken by someone over the use of their image being used in a slightly high profile manner. There has continued to be articles about copyright infringement because it isn’t going away. More shocking has been the amount of photographers stealing images and then using them as their own. A Tumblr blog has been set up called photo stealers, where the blogger outs and shames “photographers” that steal images and say that they are their own creation.

Last night I was reading “Photo Stealers” and I wondered,
“No one would steal my images.”
Why not, I do have some talent (I believe). So I began a reverse image search on google.

Google Reverse Image Search

What is a reverse image search? This is a way you can actually search for…

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Ese’ s Weekly Shoot&Quote Challenge – Imagination

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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu

I liked this quote by Sun Tzu very much…but I love this second quote just as much and for different reasons:

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss

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Click the links for other great quotes by Sun Tzu and Dr. Seuss!

 

This post was written inspired by Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Imagination

Juxtapostition: January 27, 2014

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is lovely:

Juxtaposition

as someone who writes haiku, this word is like saying you need water to make tea.  And yet, when I hear the word juxtaposition I scratch my head…what does it mean? The act of putting two things together in order to create contrast or comparison…click the here to take a hop over to the dictionary.

I took lots of photographs yesterday for this post…but then wasn’t feeling so well so didn’t process them…I’ll have to content myself and hopefully you all too with a few photographs taken a week ago…

Lost Cap

Lost Cap

In Trentino, it’s not uncommon to find lost objects “hung up” somewhere, a fence, a tree or in this case a parking lot post…

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Student’s house…

My son and his room-mate put up this cardboard poster of Denzil Washington… I just love the helmet too!

Clothes in the rain

Clothes in the rain

We don’t have many of these (clothes lines) here in Italy.  Even in the country, after centuries of marauders and bandits, people tend not to hang their clothes in an open lawn.  The interesting thing though is not the clothes line per se, but the fact that it was raining.

Hope you liked todays offering…and that I can get my more recent photos processed…in the mean time, please have a look at some of these other great responses to this week’s challenge:

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Juxtapostition: January 25, 2014

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is lovely:

Juxtaposition

as someone who writes haiku, this word is like saying you need water to make tea.  And yet, when I hear the word juxtaposition I scratch my head…what does it mean? The act of putting two things together in order to create contrast or comparison…click the here to take a hop over to the dictionary.

So here is my first trial of the week…a couple of recent shots that were interesting!

I took these photographs last Saturday morning but I just got around to looking at them…hope you enjoy:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

As many know, I was off for a couple of days so unfortuantely I had little time to dedicate to my blog!

This week’s Photo Challenge was dedicated to family…Here are a series of photos of my favorite Lake Garda birds, Mallard ducks.  In the winter the birds more or less take over the lake.  This group followed us  as we walked along the beach…beginning with what I imagined to be two brother drakes and ending with a loving great laugh of a young hen!

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Hope you enjoyed…I’m here just under the line I know!

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