Lens-Artists PC: Four or five elements?

Amy sets this week’s Lens-Artists theme as the five elements “based on the Chinese theory of the composition of the world”. The four elements that I have known all my life need to step back and be reconsidered. Blogging is eye-opening.

Sun, water, air, earth – that’s how I’d define the elements. Or is it fire instead of sun? No, this is how the zodiac signs are divided. Hmm…

Anyway, according to the Chinese, today we take fire, earth and water, eliminate air, and add wood and metal.

If you ask the first Slovenian rapper Ali En, the elements are sun, water, air, freedom, or as it nicely rhymes in my language: “sonce, voda, zrak, svoboda“. Here are two stanzas (in free speedy translation by me) from his cover of Night Fever from 1999:

We are all such garbage, 
what's up with all the drugs?
We can consider ourselves lucky 
that we haven't caught anything yet.
I'm a swine and so are you 
and the planet is mad at us more and more.
SUN WATER AIR FREEDOM
the old gentleman is expected to die.
The baby is suffocating
the nature is suffocating
mom has got cancer
and the water is no good.
And if we ask the big boss in his easy chair
what will happen
he doesn't give a fuck
as long as his firm is working.

Let the firm work
Let the firm make good business.
Let the firm never get into a crisis.
Don't bullshit me.
I'm not from here.

Be patient, it really is a cover of Night Fever. Let it develop.

In the meantime, ten photos with various combinations of the elements from here and there, Tuscany and Slovenia.

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  Water and earth are battling: intermittent Lake Cerknica in Slovenia.

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  Add wood and metal (at least I suppose there is some metal on that boat). Both photos taken with Nikon D700. See if you see any difference from now on.

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  Another metal boat on the Ljubljanica river with some wood watching on. At Livada restaurant.

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  Not fire, just seeming so. Sunsets on the Orbetello lagoon tend to be spectacular. Wood in the shape of pine trees.

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  Back when we still had an open fireplace. Don’t put a wooden crate on the fire like this. It was pretty intense.

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  This wood seems to be burnt where it goes into the ground. These are for a new parking structure nearby. Trees watching on again. Earth underneath as it tends to be.

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  Hehe. Wood with some metal. Sis and I used to be not drummers but drumstick catchers. You know, after a gig. These are from Faith No More, Biohazard, Beastie Boys or possibly Pearl Jam? We never kept score. The view from my parents’ home in Ljubljana.

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  To end, three from around here: the earth in April with wood around.

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  The next field last June with some metal poles. This year we are nowhere near this yield.

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  Orange flowers, orange metal in the shape of a train, and an almost orange dog who protests that he’s not an element.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Amy at THE WORLD IS A BOOK…: Five Elements