Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

Posted on October 26 by Jennifer Avventura

“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Tin-Tin’s Motel – Boracay, the Philippines. Circa 1998

Foreign street signs

Taken from the hotel rooftop terrace – central Manila circa 1998.

Foreigner in a foreign land - Grand Cayman

A foreigner in a foreign land. Williams Creek, Australia

I don’t really remember where I took this photo, but I know it was in France.

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign.

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Travel theme: Couples

Posted on October 21 by Jennifer Avventura

Both photography themes this week have thrown me for a loop. I generally never take photo’s of people or other couples and I’m certainly not that advanced in my photography for silhouette‘s. The following is what I’ve come up with for Ailsa’s travel theme: couples. There’s even a little surprise among the photos. Can you find it?

Floppy with this wife Shatzy.

A modern day Sardinian wedding

A couple of men selling hats.

Friendly couples catching up on the daily gossip

A traditional Sardinian wedding couple.

Inflatable couples at carnevale

A couple of horse riders in Olbia

Mamma & Baby Couple

Oh – look at this couple. I wonder who it is?

Do you photograph people/strangers? Do you ask first if you can take their photo or do you snap and run?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

Posted on October 20 by Jennifer Avventura

A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media.¹

Silhouette photos haunt me; this week’s photo challenge haunts me. I’m not super artistic when it comes to these types of shots and actually prefer to never take them. It wouldn’t be called a challenge if it weren’t, well, challenging.

Canadian Trees Silhouette

My silhouette in Vancouver, Canada

Silhouette Church in Sardinia

Half silhouette of Isola Rossa, Sardinia

Silhouetted surfer at Isola Rossa, Sardinia

Silhouette of Isola Rossa, Sardinia

Cantebury Castle Silhouette

Sardinian Cow Silhouette

Do your silhouette photo’s have hints of colour like mine?

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

Source: Wikipedia¹

Travel Theme: On Display | She Sells Sardinian Seashells

Posted on October 15 by Jennifer Avventura

I’ve wanted to put on display my lovely collection of Sardinian seashells which I found by the Sardinian seashore for sometime now. This week Ailsa – from Where’s my backpack gave me the perfect theme to display my collection. Thanks Ailsa!

She sells sea shells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Were you able to get through that tongue-twister without twisting it up?

Weekly Photo Challenge : Big

Posted on October 13 by Jennifer Avventura

“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”

-Dr. Seuss

My big feet in Vienna, Austria

Big sweets in Santorini, Greece

Big caves in Athens, Greece

My first (ever) BIG Italian pizza in Milan

Big wooden shoes in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Big Nuraghe in Sardinia

Giants’ Tomb of Li Lolghi – Sardinia

Big is the Arena in Verona, Italy

Very big beers in Greece

The big and beautiful Acropolis in Greece

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

Autummer Beach Days in Sardinia | My Mosaic Challenge

Gallery

Posted on October 7 by Jennifer Avventura

This gallery contains 8 photos.

It’s that time of year again, that time when the temperature drops and the cool winds begin to blow. It’s also that time of year when the sun hasn’t finished with summer; where the heat of the afternoon makes it … Continue reading →

Travel Theme: Animals

Posted on October 6 by Jennifer Avventura

This week on Where’s my backpack: Ailsa presents us with yet another fabulous theme: animals.

My favourite all-time animal: The Cat. Meow!

Dear readers: Can you come up with a good caption? Put your answer in the comment section below.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

Posted on October 5 by Jennifer Avventura

What makes me the happiest girl in the world? Speaking to my three nieces via Skype. I love seeing their smiling happy faces when the connection clicks on through. They show me their new school outfits; sing me new pop songs and even play the saxophone.

It’s truly a beautiful happy moment. One I take with me when I head to the beach for some Autummer sun.

Pizza also makes me super-duper happy. So happy that I do the happy-happy pizza dance. Since moving to Sardinia I’ve had a long running phrase when signing letters or emails to my three little nieces and they get a good kick out of it, which makes Aunt Jenny beyond happy.

The phrase?

I love you more than Italian pizza!

What makes you happy?

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

Posted on October 1 by Jennifer Avventura

These traditional Sardinian sweets are handcrafted with patience and care. I wish I could say that I made these sweets but alas I didn’t. I did however eat my fair share; all of them mine.