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Street Walking Feet
The sunlight streaming down this Vejer de la Frontera street was quite intense and the diagonal line of cobbles seemed to benefit from the high contrast. The walking feet and their shadow balanced the image nicely and gave it a subject, the human element.
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Nature vs Building
The contrast between the climbing plant’s exposed skeleton and the ordered lines of the building have been accentuated by making this shot black and white. Nature seems to be winning this particular battle.
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Parisian Humour
There’s always interesting street art in Paris, but this particular effort was especially inventive, yet so simple. I was trying to get the police to be more in the frame, but they kept hiding behind their car, too busy booking a motorcyclist for some misdemeanour.
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Santander Solitaire
The curved lines of the carpet provide good leading lines into the subject of the shot, the woman sitting alone playing cards…
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1956 Aircooled
Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle after being ordered by Adolf Hitler in 1933 to develop a simple vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h…
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Coastal Forms
Late in the day down at the beach in Zahora. The low tide at this coastal location brings out some interesting shapes in the sand and rocks…
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Dune Flora
Some of the plants that grow in the natural dune system on the beaches of the Costa de la Luz, here north of the cape.
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Church at the Top of Vejer The Church of El Divino Salvador has an interesting history, having originally been a mosque constructed by the Moors. Built by the Mudéjar on the site in the 14th Century, the church was added to in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The bell tower was built on the minaret of the mosque, which also is thought to have provided the two Roman type columns in the nave. The church contrasts well with the white houses ...
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Contrast and Compare
These plant pots were similar as objects and their position in spacetime, but their contents were contrasting, one short & precise the other long & loose. This is especially obvious when looking at their respective shadows. Contrast means ‘note the differences,’ whereas compare means ‘note the similarities’
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Frog Fountain
I used a slow shutter speed to keep the movement of the water rather than freezing the motion of it into droplets…
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Cobbles of Santo Cristo
The line of cobbles extending from the bottom right corner and the pattern of the paving were the subject of this shot of one of the back streets of Vejer.
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Sunset Arches
One of the more photographed spots in Vejer, caught as the sun was setting creating sun rays down the street. To the right in the shot is the wall of the old Convento de la Concepcionistas built in 1552, the arches were built to hold up the convent after an earthquake in 1773.
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Bleached Bloom
White flower reaching for the sunshine, standing out because of the shaded background. I especially liked the shadow of the flower on the leaf being in stark contrast to the light bloom itself.
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The Original Apple
The Romans carried apple seeds and planted them whenever a new land was conquered. Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.) described 37 varieties of cultivated apples grown throughout the Roman Empire, and it was the Romans that introduced the apple to England…
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Between Rocks and a Lighthouse
Rocks piled up as a windbreak on the beach in Zahora, with the famous lighthouse in the background.
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Smiling Maya
Wearing her Christmas present from Luke and Dee and looking rather happy about it.
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