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Cee’s B&W Challenge: Public Transportation

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It’s time to transport yourself over to Cee’s blog to see how her B&W contributors have displayed public transport. But before you get on the bus by clicking the underlined link take a peek at my photos.

The Zaanhopper is a little touring boat that takes passengers from Wormerveer to Zaandam down the Zaan river.

The Zaanhopper is a little touring boat that takes passengers from Womerveer to Zaandam down the Zaan river.

The canals of North Holland are filled with touring boats. I caught sight of this one in the city of Haarlem.

The canals of North Holland are filled with touring boats. I caught sight of this one in the city of Haarlem.

One way to get around the city of Dublin is to rent a hansom. These ones stood just outside of the Guiness factory waiting for fares

One way to get around the city of Dublin is to rent a hansom. These ones stood just outside of the Guiness factory waiting for fares

And of course no public transport system would be complete in any land of lakes and rivers without the bridge. This is the Peace bridge in Derry

And of course no public transport system would be complete in any land of lakes and rivers without the bridge. This is the Peace bridge in Derry

From the most ancient to the most modern. This is how I bridged the distance between me and Europe.

From the most ancient to the most modern. This is how I bridged the distance between me and Europe.

Cee’s B&W Challenge: Large Subjects

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This week Cee has challenged to bring Black & White to life in a big way by showing photographs of large subjects.

You can click the icon below to see how Cee and her contributors have largely expressed themselves.

050714 black and white (4)Now, I thought to myself when I saw the topic, “What could be larger than the Giant’s Causeway?”

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According to legend the causeway was built by the giant Finn MacCool as a road to Scotland so he could fight the giant Benandonner there. The story tells us that Finn went to Scotland but when he saw how big Benandonner was he fled back to Ireland only to be followed by his Scottish enemy.

Finn knowing he was outmatched implored his wife Oona for help. Oona helped Finn by dressing him as a baby and sticking him in a cradle. When Benandonner arrived, the story goes, Oona explained that the “baby” in the cradle was actually Finn’s son rather than Finn himself. Now giant’s are not known for their intelligence, and so it would seem Benandonner was outwitted by Oona; So the great Scottish giant returned home destroying the bridge behind him, assured that if he was nearly outsized by Finn’s baby he would never be a match for the giant himself.

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This is called the Giant’s pipe organ. It is said that on a windy night you can still sometimes hear Finn playing a tune for his dear wife Oona. And who would not play a tune for such an obviously intelligent woman?

Cee’s Black & White Ground

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I am writing this post in response to Cee’s Black & White Challenge on the subject of “Ground”.

Click the icon at the top to see what grounds other people have for posting. Here are mine

The Grounds of Blarney Castle
The Poison Pathway at Blarney Castle
The path from the Badger’s Cave. Blarney Castle
The Grounds Of Muckross House
Frozen Ground

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Abandoned or Alone

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This week Cee has challenged us to photograph Abandoned and Alone

My thoughts are below and the photos of Cee’s other contributors can be found at Cee’s B& W page for the week by clicking the Black & White icon…

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther
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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

John Fletcher
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

Cee’s Black & White: What Shape are You In?

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This week Cee has asked us to come up with Geometric Shapes for her black & white photo challenge. Click the underlined words to see how others met the challenge.

050714 black and white (4)I have learned a few things from shapes about life.

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For instance in life round is a pretty common shape!

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While we would all like it to be a little more linear, the older we get the more we realize, this thing called life just doesn’t fit in a box.

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Truth be told, the more we insist on controlling the shape of every detail in our lives, the more complicated our lives become.

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Sometimes those things in our lives which appear to be the weakest offer us the most support through the troubled waters.

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And, if you wait long enough and keep taking the bends in the road, eventually life does come full circle.

Photoing Photographers: Cee’s B&W

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050714 black and white (4)This week Cee has asked us to bring photographers and their cameras into the black & white world. You can see how many photographers were captured at

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any kind of Camera or Photos of Photographers

Here are my black& white captures.

I just used this Sepia reflection picture for Cee's oddball challenge but it fits here to. Can you tell where I am taking the picture from?

I just used this Sepia reflection picture for Cee’s oddball challenge but it fits here to. Can you tell where I am taking the picture from?

Keukenhof

Keukenhof

Keukenhof

Keukenhof

Plastic World

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This week Cee has challenged us to display blacks and whites of bits of plastics. Not to hard since much of our world is made of plastic these days. I thought of taking a photo of a container of Cool Whip. I just love my edible plastics. Instead I went for plastic things displayed at our town’s Fall Fest.

You can see how others met the challenge at

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Made Out of Plastic

Here is what I came up with:

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Just about everything in this picture is plastic except the trees, the grass, and the woman.

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This plastic choo! choo! is treated with an Infrared filter but I thought it was cooler than the B&W filter.

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