Lens-Artists PC: Playing favourites

Random but carefully selected favourites. It’s what I like doing on here anyhow: show you my favourites, people, animals, places, views, photographs. I delve into my photo folders and pick them like mushrooms.

This reminds me of “lexicons” from my school days. Some of us prepared a kind of questionnaire notebooks which were shared among the classmates who filled them in with their favourite colour, animal, friend, band, film etc etc.

I clearly remember when I gave mine to my mother to fill in as well. The question on the biggest fear she answered with: “Other people”. Suddenly spiders and snakes given by others failed in comparison.

Here are some perfectly harmless favourite moments in time. (Two captions include links that are hard to see.)

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  Favourite way to be: without a leash.

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  Favourite surprise: Yes, there are pinkish flamingos in Tuscany (in the winter).

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  Favourite kind of photo: the one that needs zero post-production.

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  Favourite vegetable: fancy-coloured Swiss chard. Normally I only see green and white ones.

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  Favourite mill on the Orbetello lagoon (where flamingos are).

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  Favourite recent decision: to follow the sign for Gavorrano. Pretty and full of doors.

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  Favourite view out of the window. (It’s the only one. We don’t have windows on the other side.)

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  Favourite humorous shopping window in Rome: “We are very open.” They also speak Italian very well and know where Piazza Navona is.

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  Favourite amore’s singer, Italian hiphopper. (And The Clash is his favourite band.)

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  Whereas mine is Pearl Jam, and he bought us VIP tickets for their last year’s Rome concert. My tenth.

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  Favourite pack members. No surprise, no doubt.

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  Favourite parents, in particular mom and dad. In Caldana.

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  Favourite mom’s occupation when she visits.

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  Favourite recent find. He reminds me of art drop-offs by Claudia McGill: https://claudiamcgilladvice.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/in-glass-jars-you-will-find-them/

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  Favourite beer: Union. The view is not bad either. Motovun, Istria, Croatia.

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  Favourite view from the door to my parents’ home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Apart from them, sister and bathtub, mountains are the thing I miss the most. Kamnik-Savinja Alps.

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  Favourite Ljubljana building: Stožice Arena. Concerts and basketball matches are held here and I haven’t been to any yet. Before it was built, I had this design on my wall.

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  Back to the lagoon in my Maremma: Favourite recent sighting. I suspected it was a statue for a moment. A heron?

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  Favourite meadow with Lago di Burano and the sea behind.

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  Favourite honey-scented bush: Spartium junceum, Spanish broom or weaver’s broom. I thank my biologist friend. I wonder if it’s the same as in Rapa Nui. Fabrizio will tell: https://awtytravels.com/2019/06/11/el-misterio-vive-rapa-nui-journal-part-iii-and-final/

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  Favourite photo taken with the recently borrowed Nikon D700. It was also the first I took.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti of pilotfishblog.com: Favorite Things