I like a photo, if we can use such a picture as a metaphor, as a door leading to further associations and hidden or not hidden messages. Looking to this balloon, I cannot decide: a symbol for my future or for some months, even years in my past life? What appears in YOUR brain / mind map / memory line?
title=”Balloon reflection” by Dirk Delbaere – click on the photo to enter his flickr galleries …
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another photo by Dirk Delbaere:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/holy-stork/
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Hi,
What a fantastic photo, just stunning.
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Reflections have their own slight distortions and that horizon will always be in front of us . . .
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For me it means something to do with the past. The black and white and the cartoon on the balloon remind me of the past.
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A masterpiece
I take my hat off
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one of the first trials to reach the Arctic / North Pole was made via balloon, he had his emergency landing too fast north of Denmark, I do not know if they have been rescued …
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Sailing off into the sunset on a happy journey (I see the subtle image of a person on the side of the balloon. He looks happy.)
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Just let it go and be at peace! Awesome photo
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Soaring gently!
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Oh frizztext, this is spectacular! I can’t take my eyes off it; it’s so dramatic, and I love the laughing man – a delightfully unexpected twist.
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it’s nice, if you can laugh if it goes down and down – once a friend made a gift to me on my birthday: a trip with a balloon – but I was too anxious to join: I feared to come down on a railway track or between electricity power cables or on troubled waters with no bridge in sight …
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Ah, if we only knew what’s really going on up there! I also enjoy metaphorical photos.
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There is something mystical or ephemeral about this photograph. Love it!
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yes, compare another BALLOON composition
– for sure quite a different message:
title=”Back To The Balloon Fiesta! by MikeJonesPhoto,
click on the picture to enter his Flickr-galleries
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or compare this message: a BUFFALO vs. BALLOONS …
title=”StandardBuffalo-don’t get too close!”
photo by Steven Ford / snowbasinbumps, on Flickr
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What a fabulous image!
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Exquistely floating and leaving it’s mark on the water ….
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As you know, I’m quite partial to metaphors! I feel like it belongs in a dream or a Tim Burton film.
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Fabulous shot! Speaks of the past definitely! The colourful ones (posted some myself a while back) are more evocative of the future 🙂
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the reflections of the white bird, dear Madhu,
are wonderful too!
http://theurgetowander.com/2012/05/13/reflections/
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For me it’s a bright future – the light in the upper corner, shining on the smiling face. Happy and excited.
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Beautiful! 🙂
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I view this balloon as a vehicle to lift me up and give me a broader perspective of life on earth~
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compare
title=”am18″ photo by cindratee, on Flickr
or visit the wordpress blog at
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Almost seems like something from a dream to me, Frizz…
that vast sea of possibility…
a little intimidating and yet a little exciting at the same time…
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Unbelievable!
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It appears to me as a symbol of my childhood, kind of my Jules Verne’s readings : ‘The Children of Captain Grant’ and ‘5 weeks in a balloon’. It’s pure joy and adventure for me, Frizz.
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I’ve noticed, Claudio, that you are often using the balloon fragment in your fiction compositions!
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Well, my friend. I think you could replace my psichologist! (And we could take photos as therapy :))))))
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hola Claudio,
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on your composition:
the tools to escape
(the balloons and also the horse)
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or the tool to defend:
the wall = protecting the city
(your farm?)
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your psi- and psychologist frizz!
title=”Another world / Otro mundo” photo by Claudio.Ar
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Thanks Dr. Frizz I feel better !!! *LOL*
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I always was too anxious to book a balloon travel:
photo by frizz, standing with feet on the ground …
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Me too. Without Neptune 🙂
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The balloon photo is very serene! Perhaps it represents the past because it is in black and white? The balloon with change scenery into a colorful future, I’m sure!
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Hi frizztext, following your comment about doing it again (you dared me to!) I just put up another photo challenge and would love you to join in! Pass it on, everyone’s welcome. xxx Ailsa http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/05/18/summer/
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congrats for starting a new photo challenge again!
here is what is in my mind, when I hear the word summer:
got not a single “LIKEs” for this till now …
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This is wonderful, Frizz! I love how this is set up and all the photos are amazing. Thank you for including me.
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your photo is great –
like an ART GRAPHIC
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Thank you. That first photo reminds me of an illustration from a book by Chris Van Allsburg…. Just a Dream. It has such a dreamlike quality to it.
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I enjoy your comments.
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