Photos, Photos, and Contest

I have been painstakingly been going through the thousands and thousands of photos that I took while in both the United Kingdom and the Middle East. I did not even realize that I was taking this many photos (I am truly my mothers daughter). I've also decided to enter a photo contest so VOILA!!! This post shall be my entry.

Todays theme is colors and boy did I get an array of those while I was abroad. Who knew that water could possibly be such a pure shade of Cerulean blue or the grass be made up of such a plethora of different greens.

Red

The artificial and violent red of graffiti stands out amongst the greens that make up the Wicklow Mountains outside of Dublin, Ireland. This was a on the path to a little creek that I had found while everyone else was buying stuff at a tourist shop in a small village. The only graffiti I had seen since we had left the actual city of Dublin, it stood out because it contrasted so well with the background of the constantly green Emerald Isle.

White

One of my favorite statues from the Tate Museum in London. A museum that could swallow you for days, as most of the museums in London are apt to do. Marble statues have always been a favorite of mine which explains why I am not too fond of modern art. A stone that can be so many different shades of white and ivory, is perfectly solid, and yet it has such a frail appearance in some statues, I can't help but love it.

Yellow

Relaxing in the nature that surrounds a Kibbutz outside of Haifa, Israel. We were just taking a tour of the Kibbutz after a nice time by the pool. These beautiful flowers just hung down from the tree right into our path. For a such a dry place, the Middle East has some of the most interesting and delicate flowers I have ever seen. I am not quite sure what kind of flower this was, all I know is that it was worth getting a little behind in the tour to take a picture of them.

Blue

 A lake in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. This was the most beautiful day to travel around the countryside near Dublin. The sun was beating down on us as we explored but that same harsh sun, made the beauty of the countryside come out 10 fold. In this photo, the lake is a dozen different shades of blue from Sapphire to Midnight. In real life, it is even more beautiful and has colors that can only exist in nature.

Green

This category was the hardest to pick for. I have over 1000 pictures of Ireland and Scotland combined, 99.9928% of which are mainly filled by the green highlands or grass that make up most of the region. Yet, I could not pass up this graffiti from outside Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives, near the Garden of Gethsemani. This was only the 2nd day we were in the region and already the Israel/Palestine conflict that we had studied so hard and so long was beginning to show itself to us in person. A cry for peace was a common theme that we saw around cities in both Israel and Palestine and continues to be something that I, myself, cry out for. Hopefully, these people can get there one day.

So random photos from the travels, but it is just so hard to try to explain it all to you. I'm still adjusting to being back and it is really hard. Maybe this is a better way to share my experiences with you. Pick a theme each day and then post. Hopefully this will give me a more consistent posting regimen.