Half and Half Challenge
Today’s photo challenge is “half and half” so I chose a few pictures cut in the middle. I was spoiled for choice today. Above is a shop keeper having a smoke at her door-step.
Berlin steps, outside the Bundestag building.
Olafur Eliasson’s installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
Reflection of a street off the rooftop of a parked car in Prague.
The encounter of two groups of horsemen on “Sword Beach” in Normandy.
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nicely done!
Thanks David. You are one of my most faithful readers. Thank you so much 🙂
Love your photo choices and composition for this week’s challenge.
Very kind thank you 🙂
What an eye you have! These are amazing. I especially like the inconnu shopkeeper with the red coat. For some reason, the lighter foreground in the Sword Beach photo seems to help the picture be even better.
I see that horseback riding is popular on Sword Beach, not just sulky driving.
Thank you so much Beth. As it happens. I shot this picture the day after I saw that film on Vivian Maier http://www.vivianmaier.com/film-finding-vivian-maier/ I took my camera with me and went around the area for a stroll. As I was approaching St Georges, I saw that shop keeper. She didn’t spot me and I had time to aim. It only lasted a split second I think and she never noticed me.
It takes a keen eye to spot those moments before they vanish. I so appreciate the link – her story is right up my alley. I worked many years in psychiatry and find eccentricity fascinating. It’s impressive that she was able to find a way to keep herself afloat financially despite having such idiosyncratic ways. The world was different then and nowadays she may have had a much more difficult time insisting on her privacy.
This is one of the best things about blogging – people share these things that I would have been aware of. I’m making my way through what’s on YouTube about her and will try to find the full-lenght doccumentary somewhere. I’m so glad you mentioned this!
Thanks Beth. I definitely recommend you go and see the film, or buy it from whatever VOD service is at hand.