Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
These weekly photo “challenges” are generally a fairly easy way to generate a post. But this week the theme generated ideas for selecting pictures but not much for generating prose.
Mulling this existential conundrum (not that it’s really either) on a flight from Pittsburgh to Boston this afternoon helped Blonde gain some insight into the difficulty of the assignment. Neither Blonde nor Brunette is ever “lost” in the details but instead we are often lost because of a failure to attend to details.
Example: Next week we’re setting off on a trip to Dubai and then Thailand. Somehow when we booked this back in August we planned our trip like we wanted to plan meals when we were kids. “Let’s have pizza, brownies, chocolate milk and fudge for dinner because we like all of them”. Do they make sense together? No, they’re disgusting together. Is Thailand next door to Dubai? No, but they both sound like fun.
It was only this weekend that we literally looked at a map in Brunette’s home and went “Wow, look, Dubai and Thailand are nowhere near each other! No wonder that’s a 9 hour flight to Thailand”! We pondered our cluelessness then Brunette said “Oh well, at least we’re doing it the right way. We’re going to Thailand first which is the farthest and making our way back through Dubai”.
Blonde said “No we aren’t. We’re starting in Dubai then going to Thailand”.
A moment’s thought then Brunette’s concluding remark on the matter; “Well that ‘s the best way to do it to adjust to the time differences”.
Then we laughed at our stupidity and went online booked another trip for this coming summer. We did not look at a map (it’s all in Spain so how far off can we be?), barely looked at a calendar and can’t wait to go wherever it is.
Now, does this sound like a pair of sisters who get lost in details or lost because they neglect details? So we ask for your understanding in combining text and pictures that really don’t belong together.
It’s the best we can do.
At least it’s the best we’re going to do.
BTW: If you double click on the first photo then you can see them larger, in all of their glory!
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- He (?) has nice details but “lost”? Maybe a bug is lost in them.
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- A plant made up of details
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- Flowers on Marco Island photographed with the MarbleCam app that creates faux details.
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- Tree roots on Palomino Island in Puerto Rico – maybe a fish is lost in them.
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- You could get lost in the details here but somehow the artist apparently didn’t.
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- If God is truly in the details then he must be in the ceiling of La Sagrada Familia.
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- Grasses along a path on Menorca where we were lost – should count!
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- Bali, the land of attention to detail.
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- Details blurred in the clear water of the Ionian Sea.
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- A sunset missing only the detail of sun
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- More like lost in plain sight – Blonde’s cat challenging the right of a visitor to use her (the cat’s) bathtub/water fountain.
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- Gelato lids in Rocambolesc in Girona.
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- Castellers building a human pyramid. If they don’t get the details right someone can end up dead. We have not been asked to join a team.
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- Someone detail oriented built these stone walls on the island of Menorca.
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- This is actually about being found in the details! Dali’s picture of Lincoln with Dali’s wife/muse/fellow wackjob Gala in the center of the picture.
Nice work, Blonde! Some of my favorite photography time is when I get up close to something, finding beauty in something that I’d otherwise walk past without noticing.
I like my pictures so much better ever since I got my zoom lens. It’s a huge pain to carry around but it captures so much more and seems to produce most of the shots I end up liking the best – probably because it captures a lot of detail. See how I got back to the point – sort of? Thanks for stopping by!
Very nice photos. I have always enjoyed photos of grasses. Around here they are a little more subdued than the one from Menorca, which I really enjoyed:=)
Thank you- I always like high grasses – even when I’m lost in them!
Blonde very inspiring the way you organise your trips! And the focus of your lens does not miss details!
Thank you – I’ve been having fun photographing Dubai and Thailand on this trip but I dropped my zoom lens in Dubai and now my camera won’t fire with it on. I’m quite distressed about that!