Looking for Birds Beginning with P last week, I came upon other birds, which didn’t. What many of them did have was their being water birds. The pair in the header shot are godwits. Here are a few others:
A heron, a juvenile herring gull, and four cormorants.
They’re for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness. And, why not? also for Beth’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: On the Water – more later, in colour!
Monochrome Madness? Possibly. This week, Sarah’s calling for things beginning with P. I’ve picked birds. Birds beginning with P.
I need to confess that not one of the birds featured below is a passerine, though this order of birds accounts for about half of all bird species. Peacocks, puffins, parakeets, pigeons, pelicans, pheasants – none of them fits the bill. The raven in my featured photo is a passerine however. Though he doesn’t begin with P …
For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness, hosted today by Sarah of Travel with Me.
Here’s a shop window I found myself staring through in Barcelona. Hard-to-distinguish images play in and out as you gaze. What’s the story? Only you can decide …
For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness.
This week, PR is our host for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness, and has chosen Minimalism. Look at PR’s post on the subject to see some fine examples. I didn’t find this too easy. But I had a go.
Fog can be our friend here …
… as can dusk …
… and a flying machine to keep the lampost company. Otherwise it’s all about the natural world.
Here are a few plants that might work.
I found some peacock feathers …
… a bird or two …
… cherry blossom …
…and a solitary tree at Brimham Rocks, spotted last week.
I’ve a feeling these are only a little bit minimalist. Why don’t you have a go, and do much better? Link your post to PR and to Leanne’s post, at the links above and we’ll all come and have a look.
I thought of Brian on Sunday. Here’s why. Brian is the blogger charged with introducing this week’s theme for Monochrome Madness. And he’s chosen ‘On the Roof’.
I was with the family in Borough Market on Sunday. And we were having fun as we picnicked, at the expense of this poor gull try to land – time after time after time – on the roof of one of the sales kiosks.
Every time his feet touched down, he slithered and skittered, unable to find any purchase, until at the bottom, he more or less tumbled off … again. He persisted and persisted until, finally…
Here are some more herring gulls, all in either Whitby or Staithes: the seaside in fact. Perhaps they feel more at home and comfortable.
Here are birds who are definitely at home on a roof. Storks. A roof’s the perfect place for nest-building and raising a family. Let’s go to Tudela in Spain.
We could go to North Macedonia now, and stay in a hotel crowded with peacocks. One even had to escape to the roof for a bit of peace.
Back home for some more domestic shots: a crow on a nearby chimney pot, and a robin on the roof of a nearby bird house (does that count? I think so.)
We’ll finish off with a shot to complement the featured photo. Here’s a line of pigeons on some ridge tiles. They echo the ones which begin the post: a host of ceramic cockatoos (?) decorating the roof of a house in Busan, South Korea.
Thanks for a fun challenge, Brian!
As you read this, I may be on a train to London. No not THIS train, silly. Something far less romantic, which may or may not run on time. But which will not bring me to journey’s end covered in soot and smelling of coal. Signing off for a few days.
For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness.
It’s my turn this week to host Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge. And I’ve chosen Walls. We’re all surrounded by them: at home, at work, in town, in the garden … even in the countryside. What can we find?
Let’s start off in town. Here’s a wall that’s lived a bit, in Alella, Catalunya.
And another, in Premià de Dalt, where a town wall becomes a place to celebrate the work of a poet who came from there, Marià Manent.
A smarter wall this time, from the Unterdenlinden Museum in Colmar, Alsace.
Here’s a wall in Lewisham, London, with a message that needs shouting loud and clear. Why is palm oil so hard to avoid in the average weekly shop?
Walls can support plants as well as paintings and messages. Here’s a walled garden in the grounds of Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire.
But walls can be all-encompassing too. Here are tunnel walls on a motorway in France.
But this Yorkshire lass can’t forget the emblematic drystone walls of her home county. I’ll leave you with these picture postcards from home.
And the header photo? That’s me on the Thames Path in London, my shadow against a wall in Woolwich.
- If you would like to participate in this challenge ...
- Please post photos on your blog and use the tag Monochrome-Madness.
- Include a link to the host’s post for the theme, and link back to Leanne’s post.
- The next theme is announced the week before the theme.
- The themes are every second week, and on the alternating week, you can post what you like.
A quick look at shadows, the enigmatic feelings of mystery they can sometimes produce.
The featured photo shows the early morning sun, somewhere near here. No mystery perhaps. More a feeling of unknown promise in the day ahead. And below, this quiet photo from Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona reminds me of a morning I spent there discovering , hidden amongst the trees, apparently ancient statuary.
Two urban photos: one from the once gritty underside of Leeds, suggesting its dirty and industrial past, the other from a up-to-the-minute quarter of Barcelona. I like the hard-to-decipher shadows on the textured overhanging roof.
And lastly, another from canal-side Leeds. Someone should write a story about this young woman sitting contemplatively beneath the shadows of the trees.
For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness …
… and for John, the week’s Lens-Artists Challenge host. He’s chosen ‘Shadowed’.
The London Team is with us this week, so all my shots are family ones, and in Glorious Techicolor. So here are a few shots from my last visit to London itself, taken along the Thames Path near Woolwich.
For Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
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