Luang Prabang, Laos
whirling dervish, N. Cyprus
enlightened by sunrise in Yala park, Sri Lanka
enlightened in Austria’s Losium
A Vietnamese poem hat – you can only see the figures when the hat is held up to a light source
Hoi An lantern festival, Vietnam
young lantern sellers in Hoi An
awaiting the enlightenment of Angkor Wat at dawn
sunset at Bagan, Myanmar
Shwedagon pagoda at night, Myanmar
Did you illustrate Enlightened?
fruit offerings in Bali
strange fruit found in Thailand
“custard pie” fruit found in Thailand
fruit sellers in Hanoi
fresh orange juice sellers in India
mango and sticky rice as prepared at cookery school in Cambodia
sharing with Ailsa
ducks are sent out to play for the day in the ricefields in Bali
terraced ricefields in Bali
a clove tree, Bali
lotus fields in Cambodia
the seed heads are harvested and brought into town to be sold
this lake of pink water lilies in north eastern Thailand is not only a tourist attraction (people come from miles around to see them) but the plants provide floral offerings for the temple as well as the roots and stems for eating.
Sharing with Sunday Stills
The Daily Post’s weekly challenge this week is LETTERS
As someone who loves numbers, letters and typography, this is just up my street!
inscription on the fountain of Hasan Kavizade Hüseyin Efendi in Kyrenia, northern Cyprus
the monument at the border crossing in Nicosia, Cyprus. Unfortunately I don’t know what the writing signifies
writing on the wall in Barcelona
Barcelona
Bristol
Sandwich, UK
ancient sanscrit script, Cambodia
sacred scripts written on palm leaves, Cambodia
Linda from Collage Obsession said “I am delving more and more into art journaling , paper and glue, ink, paint ,markers, and all the other ways to “make marks.” In the realm of digital art, the marks we make are digital–textures, brushes, fonts, filters and styles.”
I was intrigued by this week’s theme of making marks. I started my collage with a photo of very ancient Cambodian marks incised in stone
and overlaid it with a photo of painted wood on which time has made its mark
I then added the stitching, ink splatters and word art to get this
A little harder this week. They say a picture paints a thousand words. What story does your photograph tell?
the ice man cometh (in Cambodia)
for delivery: one camel
camel wrestling – New Year festivities in Turkey
taking the camels for a walk
Skinnywench’s challenge was a tricky one!
This week Sue’s dictionary fell open at the word WAITING. The following pictures were all taken in Cambodia:
parasols lying in wait for their next procession
What do people/animals/things wait for? what do they do while they’re waiting? What are you waiting for – pop over here to see what other people have found waiting a round the world.
The Weekly photo challenge has hosted a “Big” photo challenge in the past, but for this week’s challenge, they want us to consider not just the size of something, but also that special element: the “wow factor” of a scene or subject that makes a picture so stunning. That magical quality we’re always out looking for and so excited to capture with our cameras.
fields of lotus flowers in Cambodia
some of the residents of the floating village of Tonle Sap in Cambodia
the white temple at Chiang Rai, Thailand
the lake of pink water lilies in north eastern Thailand
rice terraces in Bali
temple decorations in Bali
decorations for the children’s festival in Bali
What ‘wowed’ you? people? architecture? a weird and wonderful plant? a painting? a landscape?
Sue’s dictionary fell open at the word HIGH this week.
high up in the mountains in France, close to the Italian border
Siena rooftop view
view from the top of St Patrick’s well in Orvieto, Italy, where my glasses fell to the bottom ….
the waterfall at Terni, Italy
view from the castle of Haut Koenigsberg in Alsace, France
city of lights, Kuala Lumpur
Petronas towers, Kuala Lumpur
La Sagrada familia, Barcelona
Barcelona’s cable car
Singapore’s cable car
view from the top of a hilltop temple in Cambodia
she holds her baby up on high
Do you like heights or are you afraid of them? Do they inspire you?
Visit some other high places here.
This week Skinnywench’s dictionary fell open at the word POSE
this trio asked if they could take a photo of me so I said yes, of course, can I take a photo of you?
our guide at the temple of Ta Prohm, Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia
Thailand
Thailand
Thailand
After I’d chosen my photos I thought I would check on the dictionary definition of ‘pose’ and was interested to read on Wikipedia that “A pose refers to a position of a human body”. How did you illustrate this week’s theme?
The question is not what you look at, but what you see - Thoreau 