Monday, 30 April 2012

26. where’s the top of the tower?

For challenge number 26 (in view of our recent slide into photographic inertia) we have agreed to offer our viewers (that’s you!) a fresh view of a familiar statue or monument, using photos taken at any time during the course of this 100-challenge marathon.

toni’s offering was actually achieved last November during a trip to a grey and foggy Paris; the trip elicited this email:

hello my chum!  well paris did not deliver at all on horizon front - though did manage to shoot 'known landmark in interesting way', in that top two thirds of eiffeltower non-existent due to lack of visibility in blasted fog! had just the loveliest break…

eiffel tower (1 of 1)

jenny: love the blurry leaves in your mysteriously foggy Eiff** ***** photo; it has a picture postcard feel to it and could almost have been taken 50 years ago

jenny’s offering comes from a recent stopover in Barcelona; it hasn’t yet elicited anything by way of comment (largely because as I type I am still mulling over which alternative view of which particular ‘familia’ landmark to go with)

later…..(still mulling)

even later…..and I have rejected the (newly) familiar Sagrada Familia- in spite of its being swathed in translucent plastic and shored up with cranes and scaffolding - in favour of this…..

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reflection of Barcelona’s quite splendid cathedral

toni: ahhhhh! love ju*taposition of organic bobbliness of ‘cathedral unfamilia’ contained by sleek upright verticals of window... swoon.

jenny: back to using your failing keyboard I see xxx

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