This week’s photo challenge is Threes.
The Challenger wants us to tell a story with a series of three pictures.
I don’t have a story to tell.
I am going to tell you three fairy tales:
The first tale in true colors. . . . . . . . . .
Then the fairy tale is repeated as if it were a painting . . . . .
Last of all, the fairy tale is retold in black and white, making it more surreal.
You may say that I am cheating as I am just showing the same image of Trakai castle in the Baltics over and over.
Please forgive this blogger, as he is running out of stories 🙂
Gorgeous! Well done!!! Cher xo
Hi Cher, many thanks for the kind words!
Never mind, Michael – it’s a GREAT castle!
This is one of the most romantic castle I have visited. Regards, Michael
Every picture tells a story.
So, three pictures tell three stories! Thank you 🙂
Very nicely done and I know you’ll never run out of stories!
Hi Rosh, you are right, I will dig deeper into my archive and revive my mood of telling stories!
I love it when you add stories to your photos. Being without internet for a month has prevented me from complimenting you on your Mongolian photos. Well done!
If you are running out of stories it must be time to go on another trip.
many thanks for reading my posts and commenting once you have access to the internet again. This year has been exceptionally busy and I haven’t made any trip yet!
I do prefer the one with the true colours. The blue of the sea really brings it to life.
Yes, the color one is more picturesque. Thanks, Colline!
Cleverly done.
Thank you, beluga53!
I like your tales, rather creative.
It was just my lazy way of taking part in the challenge – sometimes you don’t want to spend time to think more deeply or dig through the photo archive. Regards, Michael
These are cute little houses . Where are they?
The castle is the Trakai Castle, Lithuania in the Baltics. Regards, Michael
I understand the feeling! Where was this photo taken?
Hi, the photo was taken at Trakai Castle, Lithuania in the Baltics. Regards, Michael
Lovely concept, and photo!
del
Hi del, I was just lazy, wanting to do the minimum work for this challenge. Regards, Michael
But you thought of it, then did it!
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That’s true, I was fortunate to stumble on this idea!
But a lovely subject it is Michael!
Thank you, Tina – your posts have always impressed me 🙂
Three digital stories about myself: http://elementaryposters.com/2014/02/24/dolly/ Challenging you to tell them! 😉
You work is brilliant. I dare not rise to your challenge 🙂
Come on! Give your brains some over time … 😀 😀 😀
My brain needs some rest 🙂
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Well maybe that’s the castle after the ‘happily ever after,’ where rapunzel, Cinderella and Snow White have afternoon tea to take a break from their own domesticated castle lives. Beautiful photos!
This could well be the castle!
I don’t believe you are running out of stories, it would be very sad! Thanks for your fairy tale!
I was running out of ideas for a three photo series. At first, I even interpreted wrongly to mean showing pictures of three of a kind in them. Regards, Michael
Forgiven!
Thank you 🙂
Beautiful images. I’ve only been to Trakai in winter – although we were lucky to have beautiful blue skies like you did.
I like the white clouds too. The castle was just romantic! Glad that you were there too!
I think your take on the ‘Three’ challenge is very clever and I love these photos in their different formats. Looks like a beautiful fairy tale! I’ve yet to come up with my take on the challenge, later today I hope 🙂
Hi Sherri, I was just lazy, trying to avoid going through my archive during the weekend. I thought it would be quite convenient if I just show one image in different formats. Hope you will take on this challenge with ease and success 🙂
Well, why not? You did a great job! Many thanks Michael, I’m working on it 😉
Look forward to reading your post!
Thank you 🙂
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Ha, funny 😀
Thank you 🙂
I am glad that Lithuania receives some visitors 🙂
It deserves more visitors. Regards, Michael
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Your picture book story made me think how in youth we see everything in such vivid colours – or sometimes through rose tined glasses, when we’re young but our memories later fade or our life experience will alter our perception over time:
Full colour treatment: (“Listen Fred, it’s a stunning place, you could just picture yourself riding out into battle with Prince Arthur and his merry knights”).
Then, in middle years we tend to be a little jaded and fed up, so we are apt to become more critical.
Natural colour treatment: (“when we went to visit that so-called fairy tale castle in the Baltics, a roof tile fell off and nearly flattened your aunt; shoddy medieval workmanship, that’s what I call it but the tourist brochure insisted it was Gothic and full of old-world charm.”)
In old age, we start to view things that happened a long time ago as if they happened today, forgetting everything we did this morning quite cheerfully.
Black and white treatment: “Now when your aunt and I visited that castle in the Baltics, I was only half-way through knitting your father’s swimming trunks. What did you say, dear? Oh, I have no idea what happened to your aunt! Don’t be ridiculous, I never left her standing at the station, did I? Oh dear…where was I? Oh yes, your father hated wearing them, itchy and scratchy woolly things he called them and used to make such a fuss in front of those Baltic girls from our holiday campsite…but believe me, dear, he’d have hated it even more had I not finished knitting them!”)
Hi, your writings are so creative – they should have accompanied my 3 photos!
Yes, we have gone through three phases, a phase with vivid colors when details do matter.
Then, we become more philosophical and artistic, we would rather like to see things as objects / subjects of Arts.
In our third phase, we remember things as if they were in a B&W TV series. The colors don’t matter anymore, we are more concerned with the meaning, the style, the texture and the meaning behind them.
You have the gist of my images! Have a great day 🙂
That was clever and creative. Even when they showed the same basic photo, the treatments made a lot of difference in perception.
Glad that you like the different presentations, they are supposed to evocate different moods!
I enjoyed your picture(s), and as long as you’re taking pictures, I think there will always be stories!
I will take more photos, sometimes I have to go back to my archive. Regards, Michael
I will say that you’re not running out of stories. Presenting the same thing, from many angles and perspectives, is key to many visual arts development. It shows you all the possibilities of one object. Just as we’ve read hundreds of fairy tales that are pretty much the same but unique in their own way, we can never see too many angles form one scene.
Hi Mr. Scade, You are correct. I was only running out of stories that day for Threes. I was trying to present the castle in different formats. Your comment is appreciated ! Regards, Michael
Love this…. Different color with lovely caption
Glad that you like them. Regards, Michael
Thank you so much 🙂
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Very interesting angle on the challenge – brilliant .. I suppose you use Photoshop!!!!
Hi Viveka, I am an IT dummy. I am using a free download software known as FastStone which is a lot more user friendly!
I will check out FastStone – I use a free program too … PhotoEscape, I tried Photoshop for trail week and I could see it did anything differnt to what PhotoEscape does.
I’m like you a happy amateur so I really think Photoshop is vasted on my talent.
It seems PhotoEscape is more powerful but I will stick to the devil I know!
Michael, I had a try with FastStone and PhotoEscape is better – but I’m sticking with the devil I know too.
Anything new about that fire????
I also believe PhotoEscape is better but will stick to my devil!