#CosPhoChal – Page 6 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Portals

Dale offers the prompt “portals” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Also linked to Thursday Doors.

This tunnel leads further into some castle.

An old door in a castle. It was probably not the same castle as the first photo.

This door, wall and railing came from somewhere. Considering that I was a tourist when I took this, I suspect there’s a castle nearby.

At the Shoreline

Dale offers the prompt “at the shoreline” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Some of our friends visited us last week. We took them to the Atlantic Ocean.

Here are a few photos of the beach.

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Royal Terns facing into the wind which was strong that day

Beach sand with water and footprints

The ocean with a sailboat, swimmers in the distance and stuff that washed in from the sea on the shore

Old Buildings

Dale offers the prompt “old buildings” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

From the Charles Bridge in Prague looking at an old church

At the Prague Castle there is the St. Vitus Cathedral

Here is another view of St. Vitus Cathedral in the distance across from the Vitava River

From Ground Level

Dale offers the prompt “from ground level” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The prompt includes views looking down on the ground.

Here are some photos looking down on beach sand.

Tracks in the sand

Even more tracks. Someone must have tossed crumbs to those birds.

A bigger perspective of that beach

Black and White

Dale offers the prompt “black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Decorations on the exterior of a building, naturally black and white (more or less)

Leaves, formerly rather green, but this is what they look like after the computer ate the color.

I just started using Gimp 2.10. I don’t know what I’m doing. This is what happened when I ran “Desaturate” under the “Colors” menu.

Compass Points

Dale offers the prompt “compass points” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I offered two possibly north facing photos, but I am not sure.

Compass Point: East (based on the rising Sun)

Compass Point: West (based on this wild sunset)

Compass Point: South (based on the Mediterranean Sea being to the East of Jaffa, Israel

Royal Terns — Compass Point: North (more or less) because these Royal Terns are facing the Atlantic Ocean and I’m trying to get close enough with my phone from behind

Compas Point: Probably North since this bridge was crossing the Salzach River in Austra

From Underneath

Dale offers the prompt “from underneath” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Underneath a nesting pigeon

Church — Underneath a church ceiling

Underneath a cloudy sunrise

Close Up

Dale offers the prompt “close up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Close up of the bark on a tree

More bark, probably the same tree

Guess what this is

A Cold Start

Dale offers the prompt, “a cold start”, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Here are some pictures of chilly weather from winters-past.

A park in Northbrook, Illinois, after a snowfall

Another view of that park

The snow coming down is all over the place

The Best of the Rest

Dale offers us the challenge this week to post whatever we consider our best photographs of this past year.

I took these last summer, but I had no reason to post them.

Thank you for the the prompts this year, Dale!

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Charles Bridge of Prague

Chesky Krumlov castle along a back trail leading where I never found out

St. Moritz Sea in Switzerland