Friendship: Black & White Challenge

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I’ve been nominated by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist to participate in the 5 Photos / 5 Stories Black and White Photo Challenge. You must check her blog. She’s indeed a scientist, photographer and writer and a frequent flier. You will be delighted to travel with her through her photography and to learn easy and fun science’s experiments, that even you can do. And the icing on the cake is to hear what she has to say about all of that.

At the same time, I’ve been also nominated by Janet at Sustainabilitea to join the 5-day Black and White Challenge. I’m sure you will love to check her blog where she looks at life through her writings and photography. Janet makes stunning photos with her smart phone that makes people wonder why having a DSLR.

I’m combining the two nominations; this is my first post for the double 5-day challenge.

Here is my daughter with her BFFs (Best Friends Forever) having fun playing with haystack after an afternoon class of horse back riding.

NOW must I these three praise
Three women that have wrought
What joy is in my days:
One because no thought,
Nor those unpassing cares,
No, not in these fifteen
Many-times-troubled years,
Could ever come between
Mind and delighted mind;
And one because her hand
Had strength that could unbind
What none can understand,
What none can have and thrive,
Youth’s dreamy load, till she
So changed me that I live
Labouring in ecstasy.
And what of her that took
All till my youth was gone
With scarce a pitying look?
How could I praise that one?
When day begins to break
I count my good and bad,
Being wakeful for her sake,
Remembering what she had,
What eagle look still shows,
While up from my heart’s root
So great a sweetness flows
I shake from head to foot.

—William Butler Yeats

 

For day one, I’d like to invite my fellow photography buddy Michelle at This Melbourne Life to join me in this challenge.

The rules of the 5 Photos-5 Stories challenge are:
1) To post a photo every day for 5 days
2) To write a story to accompany your photo for 5 days (this can be fiction or non-fiction, a page, a paragraph or a poem)
3) To nominate a different person each day

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48 thoughts on “Friendship: Black & White Challenge”

    1. I’ll send all of them so that you can become my agent and make me famous, as well as filthy rich! Good deal?
      You’re still sleepy, as I can imagine, and surely too kind.
      Thank you, my dearest.

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  14. All of your entries for this challenge were fantastic, but this is my favorite. Your daughter and her friends look like models professionally photographed. Wonderful lifestyle shots.

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