Several thoughts came to mind when we saw this particular photo challenge. After some consideration, we ended up going back to a subject that we did a post on not that long ago, Native American dancers. Obviously the photograph is from pre-digital days, so the quality is probably not what you’re used to for most of our posts, but that doesn’t make it any less poignant as far as we’re concerned. Their dance combines nature, history, culture in a rhythmically mesmerizing swirl that is truly hypnotizing.
We were nominated by fellow blogger, ProjectRelish, for a seven-day photo challenge, so we will be posting one of our nature pictures every day for the next seven days.
For day 5, we decided to turn our attention towards the beach and Cabo San Lucas. Since it is snowing here in Colorado today, the images are even more enticing to us; we wish were sitting on the beach sipping a Mai Tai. We decided to use a sunset picture, but we had a hard time choosing. We’ve included a couple of other pictures that we considered as well. What do you think, did we make the right choice?
Sunset in Cabo
Rules: Post one nature photo and nominate someone else for seven consecutive days.
Nominating Polianthus, whose site has wonderful photography and stories of gardening and food.
Here are a couple of the other images that we considered:
The Arch at Cabo San LucasThe Arch in Black and White
We were nominated by fellow blogger, ProjectRelish, for a seven-day photo challenge, so we will be posting one of our nature pictures every day for the next seven days.
Narrowing down nature photographs has turned out to be harder than we imagined. Between hiking here in Colorado, visiting Yellowstone so many times, and travelling to various places that we’ve loved, choosing a mere seven pictures is a daunting task. For day 4, we decided to use a picture of Krishna’s Butter Ball, which is a balancing rock in Mahabalipuram outside of Chennai, India. According to Hindu mythology, the rock is attributed to Lord Krishna’s insatiable appetite for butter and, as a child, he would sneak butter from his mother’s butter jar. The rock is supposed to be the remnants of the butter that he would steal. Sometimes you capture an image that is a perfect moment in time, this is an image of something that seems to defy nature. Legend has it that kings have tried to use elephants to pull it down the hill to no avail. It has survived tsunamis, earthquakes, and the ravages of time, but continues to seem to defy the laws of physics and remain balanced in place.
Krishna’s Butter BallTaking Away Some of the Mystery
Rules: Post one nature photo and nominate someone else for seven consecutive days.
Nominating TheGreyEye, who has an incredible site with wonderful photographs and stories of travels from all around the world.
