Connected to Jude’s Life in Colour here
A last couple of images showing some gold, before Jude has another colour for us to play with.
Category: photo challenges
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Life in Colour – Gold
Byzantine Mosaics in Ravenna Images from The Grand Palace, Bangkok Gold Leaf Wall Mural, Grand Palace, Bangkok -
Pull Up A Seat
It’s a nice seat with a view over some water I seem to remember, but would I want to sit on this icy bench? Maybe not.
Taken in one of the Nordic countries, one of those photographs that escaped the filing system! XingfuMama asks that we create a post with a photo of places one sits or might sit, or art about sitting, and maybe a little background or story about the spot or a picture of the view. Add the tag, “Pull up a seat’ and link to your post in the comment section, either by writing a comment with your URL or by creating a pingback.
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One Word Sunday – Open
Better late than never I hope to add to Debbie’s One Word Sunday, theme OPEN
Newry Canal where it opens into the Irish Sea. Open to the elements – Samoan dwelling. 
Open Air Jazz in New Orleans. Preparing for the Eastbourne Tennis Open 2009 
Open to the elements at Ephesus The Open City – Chicago 
Open Beaches of Valencia, Spain
Link to Debbie Here
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Life in Colour: Gold
Connected to Jude’s Life in Colour here.
And for the ultimate – the real thing – here is a window full of gold in the Gold Souk in Dubai
What can one say? You don’t even talk Carats here but maybe you need to have a strong upper body to support the weight of some of these necklaces.
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Life in Colour – Gold
Photo Challenge 26
Connected to Jude’s Life in Colour here.
A direct lift from Jude’s site tells us that this month we will be looking for Gold, the colour of wealth, of power, of gods. Gold-leaf applied to paintings, gold crowns and coins. But look also for golds in the natural world, a fish, a sunset or sunrise, flowers and autumn leaves or sunlight on water. Or capture the light in the ‘golden hour’.
So I managed to find two golds, but neither of them are my own photographs. They are images I’ve just received from a friend who has a pond stocked with Koi and this golden one is his newest addition to the waters.
Golden Koi He also has some lovely ducks, some very colourful, but at the moment all attention is on the chicks, fluffy golden yellow ones with yellow webbed feet.
‘Hello’ world. My feet feel too big for me at the moment. -
Pull up A Seat Photo Challenge 21
PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR THINK ABOUT SITTING
At Beziers, not far from Narbonne in France, there is an olive press with the best olives in the world and when I visit friends in the area, I buy as many of these, the Rolls-Royce of olives, the Lucques, as I can carry home. Here, among hundreds of olive trees, is a bench made from an olive tree on the farm. I’d love to own this bench – a definite “pull up a seat” situation. It helps that almost next door is the Chateau Roquette sur Mer vineyard, where the delightfully named Vins de la Clape are produced – and an onsite shop. Who would have guessed?
Bench made from an Olive Tree at the farm where the Lucques olives are farmed. XingfuMama posts every Friday morning.
Create a post with a photo of places one sits or might sit with a little background or story about the spot or a picture of the view.
Add a tag “Pull up a Seat”
Add a link to your post in the comment section, either by writing a comment with your URL or by creating a pingback.
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Life in Colour 21 – GOLD
Linked to HeyJude’s Colour challenge here.
While in Vietnam we visited a school where children disabled by landmines were being taught skills they could use in later life. Some were being taught ceramics, some embroidery and tapestry, some carpentry and carving, some silverwork and other traditional skills. To my eyes they were all experts at what they were doing.
Here the young people are being taught the skills of applying gold leaf. I tried it myself and made a total hash of it, much to the amusement of the students. It requires a good eye and a steady hand, not to mention extreme patience.
Applying gold leaf to a painting. 
The teacher marks the results of the students gold-leaf applications to the interior of bowls and to Buddha statues. -
Life in Colour 24 -Red
Connected to Jude’s Life in Colour here.
It’s difficult to stop when you find so many reds but I think I shall have to stop now. These are the last few towards this month’s red challenge, and we are still in Japan.
Possibly the most photographed place in Japan – the famous Torii gate at Miyajima. -
Life in Colour 24 – Red
Linked to Jude’s Life in Colour here:
As promised yesterday, here are a few more Reds from Japan.
MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 