A new door is open

So this one can close. This is the last post on this blog. Let me kindly and gently direct you to my next one. But first, my New Year’s greeting to you as I sent it around this year. The photo was taken in Rome …

See you at the movies

This will be one long last post. But the Movie part of my blog has got to go and this is its farewell. There has been only ONE post with flash film reviews on this blog, which is a shame (this one in late March). And …

Pic and a Word Challenge #167: Ruckus in the still of the morning

The photo above is exactly as it was taken, in the name of all that doesn’t need any changes. The gallery below has more of such creatures, some more surprising than others. But first, a poem of how it used to be three days ago …

Pic and a Word Challenge #166: Texture – war

Get that moon off of my face. Written yesterday, on a day when How do you do? is the wrong question. Solstice Red rivers on the full moon. Texture: vicious viscous. War inside my body, Rorschach test in my pants. Man is fearful for a …

Lens-Artists PC: Garden through seasons

This is my family’s garden in Ljubljana in as many seasons as I have witnessed since moving away. It’s been five years since and even though I return as much as I can, it’s usually only summer or winter. This year I’ve added October and …

Thursday Doors, 13/12/18: Capalbio 2

Capalbio is the town on the hill in Maremma closest to me and these are some of its doors. I often bring visitors here because it’s a charming old town, so it’s small wonder that during our a bit more than just a bloggers’ meeting …

Pic and a Word #164: Sunk to new heights

While spying on the spies and evading landing spaces, here is Nietzsche’s take on heights with a little bonus from me.  “Before my highest mountain I stand, and before my longest wandering: to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended: …

Thursday Doors, 22/11/18: Door soup for Lens-Artists PC

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ― Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (quotation reblogged from One Million Photographs) It was exactly a month ago that I was forced to combine challenges and today I have to again, even though …

Pic and a Word #161: Remember to die

Live and let die, and then remember. Let’s go all poetic today. Do you know how you sometimes can’t tell exactly what a Latin proverb means? Is memento mori remember the dead or remember to die? In any case, I see it as the imperative …

Pic and a Word #160: Contemplate this

Are these the End Times? Or has it only just begun? Be as it may, there is a storm coming. First the poem. Read the title as a companion to “grumble grumble”. Contemple contemple Con temple, con tempi, with times. I hear say that these …

Thursday Doors, 8/11/18: San Galgano Abbey – Double Bill

This is a joint post, which means that you can experience this visit out of another pair of eyes. We certainly didn’t come to San Galgano Abbey for the doors but we left with some, as one does.  You might have heard it already: a bit …

Lens-Artists PC & Pic and a Word 158: Up on a Giant

I never combine challenges but this week they made me do it. Something big for Lens-Artists and giant for Pic and a Word coming up. I’m going to include: a quotation (instead of my usual Pic and a Word poem) and thank Patrick for it, …

Pic and a Word #156: Your kind of love

Yesterday I spent travelling by myself. No wonder I was thinking of you. Your kind of love Today I’m taking your daily train route, all 100 minutes of it. Just right for a good film. So I stare out. We go past the lake. Do …

Thursday Doors, 4/10/18: Normies in Maremma

I’m not sure who invented the word doorfie for a selfie in a door reflection, but today I’ve got an even newer word: Normie.  That is, Norm in a door-shell. He has survived the attack of Tuscan doors and greets you all. There were some …

Lens-Artists PC: Path to glory

They say that nobody has walked the path from your direction and in your shoes yet. Make the most of it. First the thought that comes courtesy of Frank Reynolds who is a fictional character, while I am real and you ain’t seen nothing yet. 😉 …

Lens-Artists PC: Small gifts from the streets

Small is relative, but since not much is small about me, I collected twenty small surprises that Roman streets gifted me this past weekend. They may be small in size, grandiosity or their importance on the scale of things, but each of these scenes has …

Pic and a Word #152: Fire is back

Fire is back. First ten years throughout then five years without. Battling invisible guys or while looking them in the eyes. I thought the fire is gone but I see it’s only just begun. The game is tarok. It can be played in threes and …

Thursday Doors, 13/9/18: Norm mix I.

Today a special door selection from my first blog, of doors that caught the eye of our Thursday Doorman.  “The day I set foot in Rome and start exploring for doors… well I don’t know if I’ll ever leave the place.” This was the comment …

Lens-Artists PC: Don’t fence me in

Leya wrote “Fences” in the title of her challenge, which is not to say that the singular form would have prevented me from posting twenty of them, as is my norm. But first, I was amazed to discover – only now, as it sometimes happens – …

Lens-Artists PC: Call for action

I love it when a photo challenge falls into my lap just when I need it.  Just as I was wondering what to do with these photos, so removed from the scenes that I usually capture, I see this call for action by the Lens-Artists …