We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

This week’s Lens Artist Challenge has us going on a Treasure Hunt.  I didn’t think I’d participate at first.  I am, after all, a snapshot-ist rather than a photographer, and I know that the photos I value are weighted with memories rather than  with a photographer’s skill.

But it’s been a grotty weekend (again) and a trip through the archives has been fun, and wakened many memories.  So let’s go…

  • Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall.
  • Extra Credit Items:  An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow, multiple challenge items in a single image.
    This is Cádiz, where we were in January. It’s the place for sunsets, and in this case, the place for boats too. Two items ticked off.
    One day in Seville, we went to the market in Triana, on the other side of the River Guadalquivir. This was lunch. Something hot.
    A godwit at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. A happy day with our daughter-in-law’s mum, who knows about birds.
    This is Brian, who’s moved on from living with my daughter’s family. As a puppy, he was keen on sticks.
    There’s an electricity substation near the cemetery in Esperaza, France. This sign always pleased us.
    I chose this bicycle from Seoul, South Korea, loaded up with lunch time meals, cooked in tiny kitchens, and delivered to workers on site.
    My photos of rainbows were all a little samey-samey, so instead I’ve chosen reflections on the floor of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
    Hull Minster, reflected in a nearby office building.
    Mark’s tuba is centre stage in one of North Yorkshire for Europe’s demonstrations outside the Houses of Parliament in the days when we still hoped to remain in the EU.
    Well, this isn’t a waterfall. But I couldn’t resist this pond near the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, with its atmospheric clouds of vapour.

And now it’s time for bonus points:

A woman filleting fish at Jagalchi Market, Busan, South Korea – perhaps the largest fish market in the world.
There’s always a yarn- bombing display in the Market Place in Thirsk. This one celebrated the NHS.
William, while he was still a toddler, plays with his bucket and spade.
Traditional drumming for Chuseok, the big family festival in Korea.

If you click on any image that appeals to you, you’ll find a bit of a story about it.  Then more easily ‘visit’ all the photos in that series. Thanks Tina: I’ve had fun hunting through the archives.

 

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and living in North Yorkshire, where I walk as often as I can, write, volunteer, and travel as often as I can.

38 thoughts on “We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt”

  3. 🙂 That ‘danger de mort’ thing really did it for me! Thanks Margaret – I’ll return to my endless unpacking, throwing away, sorting out, giving away, with a happy smile on my face!

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  6. A wonderful selection of treasures, which of course all photos are, even or probably more so, the snapshots as they invoke memories. The rainbow is sheer genius 🌈😍

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  7. What a marvelous gallery Margaret. So glad you decided to join us and that it helped to pass a “grotty” day (a new word for me!). Loved the little story with each image. You are no snapshot-ist my friend!

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  9. As always you do yourself a disservice when you say you’re not a photographer. I’m still having trouble with this website but think I might have cracked it. I’ve been following you with interest and not disappeared for good.

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    1. Well, thanks Kathryn. WordPress seems to be being quite awkward for a lot of us – bloggers as well as commenters – recently, so thanks for persisting. Did you notice that none of my photos was from France? I’ve yet to organise all of them … a life’s work?

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  11. You may be a snapshotist, not unlike myself, but you have some great captures here, and a slack handful of memories, Margaret! And that’s often what the challenge is about, isn’t it? I informed Mick that we are doing Carnival in Cadiz next year- apparently they have a 10 day celebration 🙂 🙂

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      1. I know I could be couldn’t I, but actually it was that I got soaked on Monday, soaked on Tuesday, blown around on Wednesday and snowed ‘at’ yesterday morning. I suppose we shouldn’t complain as it winter.

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  14. I love the IVF knitted bubs! So adorable. And as others have already noted, the photo of the lady filleting fish tells a story well. Treasure hun tis a great idea for a photography challenge. Well done, Margaret.

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  16. I always enjoy your photos and you have such a good eye and I agree that describing yourself as a snapshot-ist sells yourself short. I like all the photos in this interesting collection but the Hull Minster and tuba reflections and the Korean pond with ascending clouds of vapour I noticed especially.

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