309 Explore

"Twenty years from now,

you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do,

than by the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover!"

- Mark Twain -

Our weekend beginns tomorrow - a big one;-) We will travel and explore 3 days.
So I wish you a wonderful bright weekend today!!!

308 Simply joy

See more photos from this serial: Janine. L. Thun

307 Spring into

306 Surreal Monday: Ancestral

This could have been me, 10 000 years ago;-) Wish you a funny week!

305 Blue hour

304 There can be only one

I wish you a wonder-ful weekend!!

303 Charlestonfeelings

302 Baywatch

301 Lemonfeelings

Found this lovely one in the Butterflygarden at Singapore Airport.

300 Celebration

Yes, this is the day of my 300th photo, time flies...
To celebrate this day I show you one of my new triptych, designed for a website. The text means: together deep diving without water.

299 Surreal Monday: Aquaplantdreams

298 Botanical dream

Yesterday I went to my beloved Botanical Garden "planten un blomen" and played with 50mm, 1/8. How I love this lens!!

297 Associated

296 Lost

I wish you a wonderful and extraordinary weekend with hearty experiences!!
Remember to make your entry in my birthdaysurvey;-)

295 The peanutman

294 Chatoyant

How I loved the beauty of the Balinese Flora & Fauna. All the flowering around makes me smile. You have to klick on the photo to see the whole beauty of the dragonfly wings.

"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour." William Blake

293 Concentrated

HiHo,
we had wonderful sunny days last week and eastern. all the winter-depressions are forgotten;-) Viva spring!! Have a nice short-week!

292 Surreal Monday: Quasi-moodo

291 Happy easter!

Found in Ubud:-)

290 Get the flower-power

I wish you a wonder-wonder-wonder-ful weekend!

289 High above

I fell in love with these temple umbrellas:-) Can´t get enough of watching them, this is not a problem, you could see them at every corner, every roof, even on a bridge like this one. At least I bought a yellow-golden one. Now he is here with me and is happily awaiting crazy foto-sessions;)

288 Traveling jeweller

287 Fishermens heavenly catch

Kuta Beach, Bali

286 Buddha

285 Surreal Monday: Wiggly giggly

There are a few questions from you today and I will answer right now.
Normally I do a long session with model or customers. They change outfit and clothes three or four times and always show another face, another fragment of themselves and I play with these parts. Thats what I like to find out and to show, many different faces of only one person.
For example, this man, is also this and this and so on. Only one man in only one session.
This woman is also this and this and this and so on. Only one woman with different faces.
So I normally work one time with a model or customer and I get a lot of different photos and scenes. And I do plan this sessions.
Like this Surreal Monday model above. You know him from a few mondays. These photos are only from one planned session for my Surreal Monday theme. You can see most of the photos from this session here. So I have planned what you see. Camera on the tripod, first lying on the floor, than sitting on the chair and in a few seconds photoshop did the rest;-)

284 Bowman

It was a very exhausting day. We were walking for hours in the heat without any shadow. While sunset we sat down at the beach and I only make photos while sitting. No, I could´nt stand up and even if the motif demands for it!
And than: Lovely Bowman walked through the scene and did it!

283 Gamecock

One runs free and one is in the cage - thats life...

282 A new love...

A new object for portraits had been found;-) I could observe them for hours, there is so much to learn about relaxing and social spirit...
Monkey Forest (Wanara Wana) Ubud

I wish you a wonder-wonder-ful weekend!!

281 Coconutman

As a portrait-photographer it was very hard for me watching those wonderful balinese faces without shooting them. It´s tricky to do it unwatched in a crowd. These wonderful old man had a little souvenir shop in the middle of nowhere. So I took my heart and ask him for a photo. He was very astonished, but then he smiled and took his artwork coconuts and posed for me. Oh what a lucky girl I was;-)

280 Rangda and Barong

Rangda

Barong

Rangda presents the bad, while the Barong presents the good. There is no end of these everlasting battle between them, nobody could win. Very interesting aspect. First photo was a Rangda-Statue I have found in the streets of Kuta. Second photo was from a traditional dance show which tells the Rangda-Barong-Story.