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If

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,….”

excerpt from ‘If’- Rudyard Kipling

Melbourne International Flower Show

Human Traffic at Victoria Station

Waiting at Tate Britain

Catherine Palace, Saint Petersburg

Throne Room, Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

King Charles IV of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor

Photo at top of page: Sculpture of Rudyard Kipling, by Steve Andrews, chainsaw sculptor, at Kipling’s Estate, Batemans, East Sussex, now a National Trust property.

Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this sharing of my favourite poem! (Day 3 of 3)

How does one choose “All-time favourites”? Is it the quality of the photo, or the memory it evokes? There are inevitably sunsets, at home and abroad, or the amazing ‘golden light’, just ahead of sunset, when it catches the gum trees. There is the lonely fisherman, in the early morning, on the Vltava River in the middle of Prague, contrasted to the illuminated splendour of the Parliament in Budapest. Here are some favourites, from the last four years

A home among the gum trees

Spring emerges

A visiting tawny frogmouth

Illuminated Parliament, Budapest

The fisherman

Clouds alight

There’s a bird in there!

Palace Square & Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

The final episode of Weekly Photo Challenge – their decision, not mine!

Weekly Photo Challenge : Early Bird

The early bird can be interpreted as the photographer, out in the early morning to use the special light at that time of day. Of course, it can also be interpreted as the subject – sunrise, early morning mist or long shadows as examples. Here is my take on the subject for this week’s challenge. For the first time, I decided to play with black and white for a couple of images.