Sunday already! where has this week gone? I kept putting this challenge off because it had the dreaded ‘self portrait’ in the list.

This weeks challenge:

• Classic Still Life
• Self-Portrait
• On the Floor
• Lines
• Fresh

Still Life

SOOC

Self Portrait
I had one of my brainwaves this morning. How about a silhouette or reflection, kind of me but not all of me?

SOOC

On the floor
I took a look into my sons room this morning…Oh so many things to photograph!

SOOC

Lines
I wouldn’t have given this stairway a second glance had I not been thinking about Scavenger Hunt!

Fresh
I saw a juice bar in the week but didn’t have my camera with me so when I got home I thought I’d give this a try. It has an overlay on but I can’t remember where I got it from. It is called Enchanted no. 3. if anyone knows where it comes from please let me know?

I am linking to Scavenger Hunt Sunday, there are some fabulous interpretations of the list over here.

I am linking up with Scavenger Hunt Sunday again.

This weeks challenges:

Give Me Flowers
Visual Contrast
Friendship
Before and After
Dark

Give me flowers,
Just too many pictures to choose from, I’ll try this one.

Friendship

Before and after
In the better weather (like now) I try to get away with roasting a chicken or piece of lamb or whatever with new potatoes and some summer vegetables, but alas, my boy thinks it is not a roast without the roast potatoes!

Contrast
We went out for tea, yes of course it had to be a Somerset Cream Tea, and look what was wandering and calling around the garden. It is many years since I have seen a peacock, it made my day. I thought the contrast of the hard grey stone wall and the soft electric blue feathers in this picture (one of many!) would be just right for this part of the challenge.

Dark
Sweet Peas say summer to me, I like their delicate soft petals and colours and the way they grow entwined together, needing to be picked to encourage more to follow. When I saw these fabulous dark blackcurrant colours in my florist I just had to have them on my windowsill! Their perfume was every bit as wonderful to breathe as the flower was to look at.

I am linking up with Scavenger Hunt Sunday again. It is such a fun challenge, but this week seemed a little more difficult for me. I had to go to my library for one of the pictures. All my pictures are SOOC, the most I have done is a little cropping.

1. Architecture
2. Rimmed with Light
3. Toes or Feet
4. This is My Favorite
5. Shade (s)

Architecture

This is my library picture.
Hampton Court Palace is truly beautiful. As you look up and up you see so many of these beautiful chimneys. The Tudor’s built chimneys because coal rather than wood, was being used as fuel so you needed a chimney to take the smoke away from the rooms. The chimney stacks were often clustered in groups, and the individual chimney columns were curved or twisted, and decorated with patterns of different-coloured bricks. Why build boring straight stacks, brick was so expensive, lets show our wealth and build splendid chimney stacks!

Rimmed with light.

I have had difficulty with this part of the challenge this week, but at the farm today I saw this.

Toes or Feet

These ‘feet’ belongs to Daisy, a four year old Saddleback pig who lives at a very lovely working farm in Somerset. I think she looks as though she is wearing heels, what do you think?

This is my favourite…Gin

Bombay Blue, perfect with tonic, ice and a slice.

Shade(s)

I love how Triggers eyelashes are shading his eye from me.

This was a great challenge for me. Today we went to a working farm especially to help me complete it. We had a wonderful afternoon in the sun. I think we saw one gate with a no entry sign, the rest of the place was there for you to wander around. The animals were all friendly, well, except for one grumpy horse and there were plenty of places to wash your hands after touching them. I have some fabulous photos to share another day.