Lens-Artists PC: Playing favourites

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Written by Manja Maksimovič

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.)

  • Favourite way to be: without a leash.
  • Favourite surprise: Yes, there are pinkish flamingos in Tuscany (in the winter).
  • Favourite kind of photo: the one that needs zero post-production.
  • Favourite vegetable: fancy-coloured Swiss chard. Normally I only see green and white ones.
  • Favourite mill on the Orbetello lagoon (where flamingos are).
  • Favourite recent decision: to follow the sign for Gavorrano. Pretty and full of doors.
  • Favourite view out of the window. (It’s the only one. We don’t have windows on the other side.)
  • Favourite humorous shopping window in Rome: “We are very open.” They also speak Italian very well and know where Piazza Navona is.
  • Favourite amore’s singer, Italian hiphopper. (And The Clash is his favourite band.)
  • Whereas mine is Pearl Jam, and he bought us VIP tickets for their last year’s Rome concert. My tenth.
  • Favourite pack members. No surprise, no doubt.
  • Favourite parents, in particular mom and dad. In Caldana.
  • Favourite mom’s occupation when she visits.
  • 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/
  • Favourite beer: Union. The view is not bad either. Motovun, Istria, Croatia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Back to the lagoon in my Maremma: Favourite recent sighting. I suspected it was a statue for a moment. A heron?
  • Favourite meadow with Lago di Burano and the sea behind.
  • 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/
  • 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

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    1. Thank you, Sabine. Invasive! 😮 Here they let it grow right next to the flamingo lagoon and our supermarket. It’s practically a nature reserve. I wonder if it’s considered invasive over here as well. I love its scent so much.

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  6. Thanks for including me. And I love your Swiss chard photo – you captured its flamboyance. We get the colored versions very often in our grocery store and I always buy them in preference to any of the plain ones, like you say!

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    1. You’re welcome, Claudia. 🙂 I still keep passing this fellow almost daily. Flowers around him keep changing but it’s still right where you left him. 😉 I must say that the taste of this chard was indeed different from what I’m used to. I have not see this fancy one around since.

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      1. I think the friendship you’ve built up is the object of his presence in your life. ! And the act of observing and continuity. As for chard, I’ve noticed their different personalities too. I never ate it until the last ten years and now I’m a fan. Any color of it!

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  9. Hi, Manja. What a great collection! I love your sense of humor too. One of my favorites is your shot of your dog at the top of the post. You can tell he’s contemplating where to run first!

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    1. Thank you, Patti. 🙂 I’ve been a bit worried about all sorts of things: hunters, boar, other dogs, wolves, tourists (he likes to jump on them), so I don’t let him run as often as I’d like to. This photo has it!

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  11. I don’t know where to start. Pink flamingos – good as any place to start. Never knew they were in Tuscany. It had to be a zoo?
    So envious of your Mum and Dad’s mountain view. So relaxing looking at those white peaks!And the Croatian view is not bad either. You sure get around!

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    1. Thank you, Amanda. 🙂 Well, I hop from here to there and back a lot, Croatia was an exception (even though it’s very close to Piran on the coast in Slovenia). But I haven’t been to Asia at all, for example. Let alone Australia. 🙂 No, it’s not a zoo, but a nature reserve. They like the shallow lagoon and return every year. That mountain view depends on visibility. It’s not nearly always like this.

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      1. So the flamingos fly in and out. How wonderful! I have only seen them in Singapore zoo. Still envious of the mountains, however they come. I guess that is why I visit Norway a lot….

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    1. Thank you, Leya. But you must mean bloom, not broom. 😉 I see now that it’s an invasive plant, didn’t know. Today I was on a walk and saw them everywhere. I guess it doesn’t come north to you.

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