Leya is asking us for the year 2018 in review and following my blog change I wish to reflect on my last year’s blog and choose some of my favourite moments, because what else are photos if not captured moments for (relative) eternity?
I had fun going through my previous blog to select some of the posts and photos that I’d like you to see (again), but when I got around setting up this post, I got frustrated with technicalities. I don’t like this new editor and my new theme has much fewer options than I’m used to.
So if my regular visitor is not familiar with any of the photos or a newcomer finds it interesting and wishes to see more, you can find the links in the two lists below with descriptions of the photos. (ADD-IT: Before the links were in dark green in captions but they were almost invisible so I deleted them.)
Another thing, peculiar to this theme, is that captions are only visible if you look at the post normally but if you open a photo in the gallery, they disappear. And this doesn’t make me happy at all.
My laziness is legendary and if I choose to break it, then at least my work should be worth it and visible. 😀
By pure chance (really) the first half of the photos is from Slovenia where I lived for 40+ years, and the second from Italy where I live now.
Slovenian moments include:
- the blank screen in the woods which everyone of us should fill as we please,
- flooded Podpeč Lake near Ljubljana in December,
- pensive bunny on the windowsill above my parents’ garden,
- a fully atypical basketball action scene (they had a trampoline),
- angels spotted at the concert of Brina up on the Ljubljana Castle,
- Savica waterfall,
- happy female dog wishing to play with our bestia,
- grapes from my other parents’ garden in Piran on the coast,
- a pastel sea scene,
- and the last one in the first half, a peculiar Celje castle scene featuring man, woman, view and snack.
The ten Italian scenes are as follows:
- ibis in the Maremma field,
- chard on the first snow in five years,
- all the colours,
- my seven book favourites,
- certain Honey above Orvieto,
- a door in San Galgano Abbey (with the link leading to my selection of 2018 Thursday Doors),
- an arch in Rome,
- pretty Massa Marittima,
- a boat on land by the lake,
- and finally, my bestia on TV, a photo from the last movie post on my old blog with flash reviews of almost 70 films and series.
These twenty glimpses are good representatives of my life. I dare say it’s colourful, abundant and peaceful. Let it stay this way. Always welcome to share it with me.
For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Leya of To See A World in a Grain of Sand…: Photographic review of 2018
Lovely. I wish u equally successful 2019.
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Thank you, Bojana. ❤
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Reblogged this on Mexi Movie the Third (closed) and commented:
Reblogging this on my previous blog to see if there are any followers still unaware that I’ve moved. Welcome!
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Lepo! Hude fotke. 💚
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Klu Klu! ❤ Grazie!
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Great gallery, Manja – still my merrymaker! I love them all, but have a favorite – out of space off the chard. Wish you a happy, colourful 2019!
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Thank you, Leya! 😀 That chard was indeed peculiar and I haven’t seen any like this since. Let’s be merry!
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Let´s!
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Sigh… this is one of my favourite shots from our time with you. Banana Joe is making an appearance too 🙂
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Thanks, Norm. I like the one of you equally but couldn’t include both of you. 😉 And oh yes, he certainly goes around! 🙂
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These are great photos. I’m viewing on my phone and I don’t see the captions at all. If I go into the gallery I see the photo details but no caption 🙁
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Ahhh, this is not good news. Please, Dan, can you do me a favour? Can you view one post before this one, the one for Thursday Doors, and tell me if you can see the captions there at all? In that post they are white and visible, at least on my phone. Thank you, I’m glad you like the photos.
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I haven’t gotten to that one but I saw the captions on the four-from-the-corner post.
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Then it should be fine, unless you open the photos in the gallery, then the captions fully disappear, I’m afraid. I hate that. Thanks for having a look.
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Lovely, beautiful, amazing — depending on the photo.
I’ve got two problems here — one, where is subscribe by email? and two, are you giving up captions?
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Thanks, Joey, good to see you here. I’ve got more than two problems with this theme, but I hate to change it now that it’s all set.
The option to subscribe does exist though, under each post after the comments, people are using it yet. As for the captions – they are visible but only when you don’t open the gallery to view the photos. In this case they disappear. 😦 In this post captions are all links to posts on my previous blog, that’s why they are dark green, as I explain above in the post. So you can still click them to be transported to the post even though they are barely visible. In other posts captions are white and visible fine until you view the photos in the gallery. I hate it too but haven’t found where to fix this if at all.
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In the meantime I have deleted the dark green captions because they were useless. Now the links to individual posts with these photos are in the two (Slovenian and Italian) lists.
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Reblogged this on Janet's Thread 2.
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How stunning!! I love this gallery of 2018 review. Thank you for sharing💖
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Thank you so much, Amy, thank you for visiting and welcome to my new blog!
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Wonderful pictures, and this post serves as an excellent intro to your previous work, a kind of index. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you, Mikels, this is a nice thing to say and hear. Always welcome back.
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The images are truly gorgeous. PS I don’t like the new editor. At all. Way too minimalist. Happy New Year!
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Thank you, Cheryl, I’m glad you came to have a look. And one to you!
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It’s amazing, isn’t it?!? To imagine you enjoyed all that in one year. Many magnificent images here, but my absolute favorite was the pastel seem with the sailboat 😍⛵️. Happy Happy Joy Joy In 2019.
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Yeahhh, Lisa found my new blog! ❤ I'm so glad! And of course you'll like the sailboat the most. 😉 Much love and joy and only good kind of waves and wind in 2019!
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