jillballau: April 2025

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Peculiar Pics - A Compendium

I recently participated in the April AtoZ Blogging Challenge where I shared photos from our last year of travels. My topic was Peculiar Pics.

As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

Following are links to my 26 posts:

A is for Arches and Anchors

B is for Bells and Bookshops

C is for Cocktails and Coca-Cola

D is for Dogs and Danger

E is for Entertainment

F is for Fruit and Fingerposts

G is for Green and Gold

H is for Hearts

I is for Ice Cream and Italian

J is for Jogging and Joy

K is for Knockers and a Kookaburra

L is for Lights, Lamps and Lanterns

M is for Multicolour and Murals

N is for Numbers

O is for Orange and Omnibuses

P is for Photographers and Posers

Q is for Quotes

R is for Red

S is for Swirls and Spirals

T is for Threes and Trees

U is for Unique, Unorthodox and Upclose

V is for Vertical

W is for Water and Wine

X is for Xes

Y is for Yellow

Z is for Zoom

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - Z is for Zoom

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

There was a professional photographer on board one of our recent cruises who gave a series of lectures on creating better pictures. I was one of his eager students who took particular notice of his advice to Zoom In and take more closeup images.

I now find myself with a gallery of these "in-your-face" images.

One of the locals - Regents Canal, London, England

Carpet - More OTT Decor - Regent Seven Seas Splendor

I relieved them of a hot pink hat - Cassis, France

Herbs in herbalist's shop - Tangier, Morocco

Traditional hats - Tangier, Morocco

Huge feet on Sarcophogus - Cadiz, Spain

View of seat back on tour bus - Bordeaux, France

A Delish Appetiser - Tomato Soup on a Regent ship

I didn't need this tool to cut through the tender steak - Seven Seas Splendor

Detail on Monument - Place des Quinconces, Bordeaux, France

Yet more of the Splendor bling

Blooming in June - London, England

Supporting the deceased - Westminster Abbey, London, England

Thoughtless tourist - Goyder River Crossing, Arnhem Land, Australia

Future handbag - Murwangi, Arnhem Land, Australia

Busy hands - Ramingining, Arnhem Land, Australia

Rock Painting - Borradaile, Arnhem Land, Australia

Scallops - Seven Spirit Bay, Arnhem Land

Holy Water Font- Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

Messina, Sicily

Chalk Art outside Cologne Cathedral - Germany

Garden bed - Wurzberg, Germany

Souvenir shop - Passau, Germany

Pointer - St Stephens Cathedral, Passau, Germany

Looking down - St Pauls Church, Passau, Germany

Temperature check - Budapest, Hungary

Drip - Soraku'en Garden, Kobe, Japan

Bug landing - Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England

You can stop viewing now. I have reached the end of this challenge
Outside Dubrovnik, Croatia

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - Y is for Yellow

Scrolling through earlier posts in this challenge I realise that I am drawn to images that are bright and colourful. I am devoting yet another post to a rather loud colour - yellow.