Shuttering Yukon's favorite photos

➽ A Spoonful Of Sugar ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ _________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - so here we go. lets do white on white, or high-key (yuck) however you can do this.

➽ A Forest ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ _____________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - Luc's mission: make a SQUARE image and imitate the IMPRESSIONISTIC style. I've used the filter "impressionistic" by PhotoScape - the effect is best seen in Original-Size

➽ Augschburg Style ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ __________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - Sami's mission: Maximalism And the actual challenge comes here. Instead of giving you any strict definition for maximalsim, I ask you to go out and seek your own interpretation! Go out from your house, out from your usual circles, and out of the box! Chat with other people, with your family members, friends or even with strangers. Then try to lead the discussion on to this topic of maximalism, and ask how they understand it. Or go into your imagination, go to your backyard, climb up to the attic, and bring out all your favourite tricks, props and toys. __________________________ ➽ An Augsburg mosaic made from more than 800 photos, created with AndreaMosaic ➽ On black is not enough - please have a look at the original size - klick here!! ➽ Original photo in PiP

➽ Transience ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - this week, your mission should you choose to accept it comes from Pappy in the challenge ideas thread.. As close as you can get. Get out your macro toys and cropping skills and make a photograph that gets as close as you can to an object without losing sight of what that object is. It might be fun to guess what the object is (if not really obvious) or is from in the comments and then have a reveal near the end of Sunday by the creator of the photograph. ________________________ ➽ O.k., I think you can see what it is - but, maybe you can guess which tree it's from?

➽ Soul Food To Go ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ _________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - your mission, should you choose to accept it is The Food of The Dead ... Ritual connections between food and the dead are ancient and cross many cultures. _________________________ ➽ On All Souls Day, on the 2nd of November, in the Bavarian-Swabia region it's a custom to bake "Seelen-Brezen" (Souls-Pretzels) from yeast dough. The time around the first of November was the beginning of the new year for our Celtic ancestors. In addition, the Celts believed that on this day the deceased would return to their earlier life for a day. This was no different in ancient Christian customs. Still a hundred years ago one could read in the books of the traditions that the people made preparations for this "return": In the evening, among other things, an additional place stetting was laid on the table and to satisfy the physical needs of the "poor souls" there were served "Seelen-Brezen". In some areas a loaf of bread was brought to the grave and a "Seelen-Breze" was placed on the grave cross. Even today there are still in many bakeries / confectioneries in Bavaria-Swabia "Seelen-Brezen" to buy. They are traditionally from yeast dough sprinkled with sugar or powdered sugar, or, more recently, lush marzipan-decorated chocolate pretzels ________________________ ➽ An Allerseelen, am 2. November, ist es in der Region Bayerisch-Schwaben Brauch, Seelen-Brezen aus Hefeteig zu backen Die Zeit um den ersten November herum war für unsere keltischen Vorfahren der Beginn des neuen Jahres. Außerdem glaubten die Kelten, dass an diesem Tag die Verstorbenen für einen Tag in ihr früheres Leben zurückkehren würden. Im alten christlichen Brauchtum war dies nicht anders. Noch vor hundert Jahren konnte man in Brauchtumsbüchern lesen, dass die Menschen für diese „Rückkehr“ Vorbereitungen trafen: Am Abend wurde, u.a. ein zusätzliches Gedeck aufgelegt und zur Befriedigung der leiblichen Bedürfnisse der "armen Seelen" servierte man ihnen „Seelenbrezen“ aus Hefeteig. In manchen Gegenden brachte man auch einen Laib Brot zum Grab und hängte eine „Seelenbreze“ an das Grabkreuz. Auch heute noch gibt es in vielen Bäckereien/Konditoreien in Bayerisch-Schwaben Seelen-Brezen zu kaufen. Sie sind traditionell aus Hefeteig, mit Zucker oder Puderzucker bestreut, oder, neuerdings, üppig mit Marzipan dekorierte Schokoladenbrezen.

➽ See these eyes ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - your mission, should you choose to accept it is.. CATS ________________________ I don't have my own cat, so I had to search for "strays", unfortunately not only the birds appear to have been forewarned but also the cats! So please - no dogs or other animals next week! ;-D

➽ Too shy ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ________________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - this weeks challenge, should you choose to accept it is BIRDS/BIRD - Living birds, not dead or ornaments. ________________________ ➽ Zoo Hellabrunn, Munich - Flamingo (see also PiPs)

➽The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - shoot something from 3 different angles. Convert the 3 pictures to monochrome (doesn't have to be B&W) and arrange them in a triptych _________________________ ➽ Triptych made by Picasa, Canvas texture from PhotoScape

➽ Sober ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ________________ ➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - beverage/s, drink/s