Sunday Selections

Back to Sunday Selections again, which is always fun! This week my images are from a Buddhist mountain village in China called Wutai Shan. One day, when exploring the temples, we stumbled upon the preparations for a festival. What amazed me were the repetitions; candles and peaches laid out in rows, and flowers and mushrooms lying to dry on the ground.

Sunday Selections- Home

In general I don't get very sentimental about 'Home', my parents take offence but they shouldn't. It is just that I come from a very small world and I enjoy my taste of freedom too much to let it go. But it's my final year and suddenly I am appreciating more and more what that Home means. So I have enjoyed trawling through photographs for this Sunday Selection and tried to find some images that capture the feeling of that place.

Looking up out of my garden from the sky-bed of the trampoline.

In the summer I always photograph the flowers.

A summer view from my bedroom window, the shadow of my house in fields.

Autumn hay bales in the field. When they stack the bales I go with my friends and brothers and we climb up in to them.

My reflection in a puddle out in the lane; when I was younger so many stories came from pacing the lane (my first bit of freedom) and staring in to those reflective expanses of puddle. It is this wetness, bringing snails out and make stones glitter, that I remember best of all.

In the snow the quiet houses fade.

Sunday Selections- Ode to Light

So, although it isn't quite Sunday here in Britain, I don't want to miss the Australian Sunday fun at Frogpondsrock. As you may or may not have noticed I am obsessed with light; the way it creates shadows, blinds white, filters through glass and is channelled by constructions. Here are some photos of the light doing all the work for me and making everything beautiful.

And here is a photo for Dolly of a Cat being cheeky:

Sunday Selections

So I decided to continue with the Sunday Selections at Frogpondsrock because it is quite fun indulging my inner photographer. These photographs are of reflections in water, but they reveal new worlds and intoxicating possibilities. Two worlds are merged and turned upside down, to leave us with only a giddy sense of perspective.

Sunday is all about escapism. So here are the reflections to lose yourself in.

Sunday Selections

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So a little blog called Frogpondsrock has a photography project running to post old, neglected photographs on a Sunday. Here is my contribution:

I took this photograph in a hostel in Marrakech. I love the puzzling of light and the strange perspective the broken colour offers. I love Frogpond's idea, it offers the chance to be a little narcissistic and publish photographs which you are quite proud of, but would probably never be seen otherwise. So join in.

Which reminds me, it would be lovely me if my followers could introduce themselves, I can't seem to find links to (or back to) all of your blogs.