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Seabirds over the rainbow

This week, at Taraji Blue, we are focussing  a little closer to home and are focussing on photographs taken in our own backyard – Yorkshire. I wanted to kick start this week’s theme with this image…
A rainbow appears during our RSPB seabird cruise along the coast of East Yorkshire. Hundreds of seabirds fly in front of the rainbow – Gannets, Puffins and Aucks fly constantly around the boat. Cameras whirr and children chatter excitedly as raincoats are removed and the sun makes a brief appearance.

RSPB cruises commence again this spring from Bridlington Harbour. They’re well worth checking out. Visit the RSPB website for further information http://www.rspb.org.uk
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Lazy brunches, long lunches and starlight dinners

Isn’t this what France is all about? Lazy brunches, long lunches of french onion soup and crepes, and dinner served on the cobbles. The outside cafes and restaurants of Saumur were a delight – not only for the food they served up, but also to wander between.

This photo ends our week long celebration of France here on Taraji Blue. I hope you enjoyed the pictures and experiences we shared. We welcome any comments and feedback.

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Shards at Mont Blanc

We’ve called this photo ‘Ancient Eruption’.  It features massive spears of rock which rise into the sky near Mont Blanc, France. I share this to continue our French theme this week here on Taraji Blue.

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Castles in the sky

To continue our French theme this week, I am sharing this image of Saumur Castle. I love its position, not only high above the city it’s also elevated above a number of walkways from where you can obtain an unusual perspective on this wonderful building.

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Like a sore thumb

Three sunflowers in bloom stand out in a field of decaying sunflowers

I could not celebrate France without sharing this photo. It features three lonely sunflowers in a field of companions who have passed on. We’d missed the sunflower season and were accustomed to seeing row upon row of dead flowers in the field. That’s why these three caught my eye. I love the colour in the sea of black, and their triumph in the face of adversity.

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I Live Alone

A lonesome farm building in the Loire Valley, France
A lonesome farm building in the Loire Valley, France, captured in wide angle.
I really love the soil patterns and the way they lead they eye to the abandoned old building.
I wonder who lived there? When and why they left?
It must have been quite a lonely life. It’s a good job that the tree is there to offer the house some company.
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A ladder, some stars and a torch at midnight

This week we’re continuing to celebrate France on Taraji Blue. This image was taken in the Loire Valley in the middle of a field of sunflowers. Armed with a ladder, torch and bug spray we set out at midnight to see if we could capture the silhouette of the flowers against the starry sky.

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Where did everyone go?

Sunflowers look out over a vacant field

This week on Taraji Blue we’re going all French. We’ll be sharing photos daily from this beautiful country. In this photo, sunflowers gaze across an empty field, seemingly mourning the loss of their friends. We were lucky to find a field of sunflowers – we’d arrived a little late into their season and most had already been harvested.

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Malfunctioning iceberg

A abstract of the weird, alien iceberg landed off Renbugten in Greenland

We saw many beautiful icebergs in Greenland, hundreds of them. Immense in size, colour and shape, they dotted the landscape like sheep dot English hillsides. Whilst I loved the majestic nature of the large smooth icebergs, I was also drawn to those which were less characteristically beautiful – like this one above.

This iceberg was sitting just off the shore line in very shallow water. We took the opportunity to sail around the berg to inspect it further. Age old blue ice mingled with clear newly formed ice and black debris. The jagged nature of the iceberg was courtesy of the motion of the waves – it’s likely that the iceberg would have twisted and rolled in the waters, each time exposing new ice to the skies and seas, thus continually reshaping and reforming the berg.

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Sing for your supper

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In China, songbirds are kept in bamboo cages. Their owners take them for walks and hang the bird cages off tree branches. They will often cluster the cages together so the birds can be introduced. This wee bird was hanging on a tree outside the walls of the Forbidden City, his owner was sitting peacefully nearby.

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