Photohunt - Busy

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The theme for this week's photo hunt is busy. I have ben busy going through photos all week exceot fir Wednesday when I did a long shoot with mmy nephew and Celena a beautiful young woman with grace, poise and style. Since then I have been busy going through the photos from that shoot... and will be for quite a few days to come
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Photo Hunt - Informative

The theme for this week's photo hunt is informative. This is a poster I saw in Paris a couple of years ago.At that time over 20 countries watched, controlled and/or censored what their citizens could access through the internet. The Great Firewall of China is well known but China is not alone sadly. I fear that the number of countries imposing internet controls may now be greater.
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Photo Hunt Triangle

Running late and I'm finding it hard to type and hold a mouse at present what with an infected thumb. This is my entry for this week's photo hunt. It;s a reworked version of an earlier entry. It's a snowdrop from below... honest!
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Star crossed lovers (Photo Hunt Dirty)

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Their eyes met across a stamen: one an ambush predator, the other a simple collector of nectar. It was a love that should never be, a love that would disgust the other denizens of the  Hope Cottage gardens. Never before had a Hexapodan* embraced a Cheliceratan* but that did not concern Crabeo and Hoverette.

Personally I think it's dirty and this in keeping with this week's photo hunt

* Hexapoda is the subphylum (unit of taxonomy) that includes insects includes all insects; Chelicerata includes spidersSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photohunt - Missed

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The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is Missed. Here is Mimi again who died in 2009. She may have had no concept of what the litter box was for, she may have had a sever disability which cut her life short, but she was one of the most loving cats I have ever known
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Photo Hunt - Digital

It's been awhile since I participated in a photo hunt. High time I got back in the swing. The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is digital.

The photo is digital, being taken with a DSLR but the subject is emphatically from the analogue age. It is the centre of a carnival glass bowl
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Photo Hunt - Still Life With Jaundice

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is self portrait. Personally I hate to be photographed which is why I tend to live on the other side of the lens inflicting photos on other people

.As a result there are relatively few photos of me. This is a version of the one on my Facebook pageSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo Hunt and 4000th post

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is mainly black so here's Lord Horror (aka Ted) again. He is of course considering how much drivel can this blogger spew on this, the occasion of the Poor Mouth's 4,000th.

Even the ghost of the dear departed Mimi is so stunned that I have been able to say absolutely nothing of worth over so many installments that it is back to show its astonishment

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Photo Hunt - Education

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is educational. As I have nothing whatsoever photowise that could be described as educational (apart from the rock that was used as a hedge school - and I've used that before) here's me learning how to do Infra Red photography with a cheap second hand Nikon D50 and an infra red filter (and a fair bit of tweaking too).

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Photo Hunt - Hands

TED



ROBYN



BEBE



BORIS

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt ishands. Although there are four human hands in the household cat paws are in greater abundance so here are some front paws insteadSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is funny. The problem is that when it comes to phots I do't do funny - Miserable, melancholy and maudlin, yes but funny? Not really

So here's a repeat from early 2008. A sign that makes this puerile so and so snigger, especially with the "torn" tag in the bottom cornerSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo Hunt - Hard to find

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is Hard to find/ tretching the theme rather, it occurred to me that Egyptian sarcophagi are hard to find except in museums. Here is a detail from a sarcophagus in the World museum in Liverpool

Even harder to find on a sarcophagus is the symbol "If you think I look bad, you should see the other guy" a symbol found mainly on the tombs of Pharaohs who liked a drink and a punch up....


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The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is itchy. Okay s this nettle is initially sting-y, it soon itches like hellSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo Hunt - Dark

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is dark. This photo may have blurred but does it reveal the darkness that lies beneath...Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo hunt - stripes

he theme for the week's Photo Hunt is stripes. Here is a stretch on the theme. The photo was taken two years ago in Kerry in Ireland. If not quite striped the land is striated.Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo Hunt - letters

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is letters. There is just one letter that springs to mind and that is the rough M that appears on the forehead of all tabby cats, something that they share with several of their bigger cousins. Above are Robyn and Boris

The origin of the M is the subject of religious legends

One legend tells about Mary and the tabby cat in the manger. It seems that the baby Jesus was cold and fussing, and Mary asked the manger animals to move in closer to warm him. The manger was simply too small to accomplish that, but a little tabby cat came in and nestled next to the baby, and cosseted Him with purring and warmth. Mary was so grateful, she bestowed her own initial, "M" on the cat's forehead.

An Islamic legend states that Mohammed, a cat lover once cut off a sleeve of a garment when he had to leave to attend prayer, rather than to disturb his cat, Muezza, who was sleeping upon the sleeve. It is said that the reason he loved cats so much is that one once saved his life when a snake crawled into his sleeve. (This may be a variation of the well-known Muezza story.) Legend also claims that Mohammed bestowed on cats the ability to always land on their feet. These stories assumes that the "M" symbolizes the enormous esteem which Mohammed felt for cats and that the sight of the "M" on a cat's forehead invokes memories of Mohammed.

Make of these what you will. As far as I am concerned the M tops off the most beautiful creature on this planet.

UPDATE: Sparkle has a far more plausible theory as to why tabbies have an M on their foreheads:

"Actually the truth behind the "M" is that it stands for Master, so that humans will always know who is boss"

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Photo Hunt - Natural

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is natural. I could have gone off into the countryside to photograph some hatural landscape but that hardly exists in England - the landscape you see has been carefully (or carelessly) created by human hands over centuries.

The same goes to a lesser extent in Ireland. You try to take a photgraph of a mountain top and some early Irish men put a cairn on top of it! I give up

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Photo hunt - got the subject wrong!

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is Anniversary, it being the ninth anniversary of the appalling acts of terrorism that took place on 9/11 2001.

To be honest I had it in my min that the theme was memorial and not anniversary. I don't have a decent anniversary photo of any kind so I'll just have to go with a memorial instead.

My eye was drawn sometime ago to the war memorial at Liverpool Street Station to commemorate the many lives of young railwaymen who died during WWI. At the bottom is a plaque to a Captain Fryatt. For a long while I meant to find out who he was.

It was only a couple of months ago that I finally remembered to look him up. Charles Fryatt was a merchant navy captain during WWI, commanding railway packets between England and Holland. In March 1915, while in command of the SS Brussels he ran down the Submarine U33 which had surfaced with the intention of sinking the Brussels. The U Boat crash dived and escaped.

The following year the SS Brussels was captured by German destroyers. Fryatt was arrested and tried for attacking the U-33 the previous year. He was found guilty of being a "franc tireur" (effectively an unlawful combatant) and sentenced to death. He was executed by firing squad.

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Photo Hunt - Hot

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is hot Here is a flame spurting from the top of our incinerator. You could feel the heat from a fair distanceSource URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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Photo Hunt - Numerical

The theme for the week's Photo Hunt is numerical.I had no idea what to put up for this theme so I had to strewth (as I imagine many will this week!) Today I tried out my new macro lens on another Toadflax brocade moth caterpillar (we had them first a couple of months ago and saw a moth last month).. well there was one of them and it looks a little like a number one....Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/search/label/photo%20hunt
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