*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.08.10 ***

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More pics of the Mushrooms of Seville. Interested to know which of these two you prefer.

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The second shot without doubt. The mushroom, which is the subject, dominates the shot, and the people are nice and small enough not to distract.

The couple in the first shot distract, and seem a bit distorted for some reason.

Hereford

It is still incredibly hot and humid here in Northern Italy. So I have not got much enthusiasm to go out and about taking pictures. So here are some more from my holiday in the UK.

I wanted to see the Hereford "Mappa Mundi", the largest surviving medieval map of the world. I discovered its existence in a book by an Italian art historian, some months ago. My wife wanted a Marks and Sparks, which Google Maps helpfully told me was present in Hereford, so the the trip to Hereford was approved. The Hereford Map would not be much good to navigate with as it is more symbolic than an accurate representation of the world. Jerusalem is at the centre of the world, and we can see the usual collection of fantastic animals, that I saw in Bobbio a few weeks ago. It dates from 1300. The Cathedral was a nice surprise too.

Pretty cool encounter.

Beehive

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Keeping the kids amused
We got a week-long visit from our niece and her 3 young kids last week. The challenge was to find hikes in the mountains that were challenging enough to keep the kids interested while avoiding that helicopter ride to the hospital.
Scrambling up to the waterfalls at Riedingtal fitted the bill nicely and indeed, we all survived.

A stone wall along the way. They not as common in Austria as they are in the UK

The two young ones ran up this dried up river bed to the side of the route, got to the top then just disappeared,... oops !

King of the tree stump in the land of the misty mountains

The waterfalls in the distance

OK, let’s scramble up there

Looking back while a brief shaft of light shined through the clouds

On the way back

A shot taken by her older brother with my camera, he showed quite an interest in photography and got my old Nikon D90 as a take home gift.
12 MP will have to do for now 😊

Winner.

Fab, fab, fab, so are the rest.

Fascinating street shot. Chess had a little renaissance after The Queen's Gambit TV series.

Too bad the heads and faces are cut off, but shot is good.

After Rain

Last weekend saw prodigious rainfall in SW Scotland, but when the sun finally madeit through...

Away visiting friends this week so please excuse any lack of participation.

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Great series and so many good shots. Thanks for the tour.

Amusing blurb and fascinating to see the Mappa Mundi.

These are gorgeous , especially the last :-)

Very intriguing. Shimmer adds to great interest.

The 3 humans are an important element here. As a photo rather than a document, I'd feature them more by cropping off the whole right side. But I like it anyway.