PhLB - Luc Boonen's photos

The Sunday Challenge = Your interpretation of an individual song or piece of music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My alltime favorite Van Morrison created this song, a poem that's tells the story how he got inspired by certain artists: Radio played a crucial role In-the-days-before-rock-n-roll . At YouTube: In the days before rock and roll At Soundcloud: In-the-days-before-rock-n-roll ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am down on my knees At those wireless knobs Telefunken, Telefunken And I'm searching for Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Athlone, Budapest, AFN, Hilversum, Helvetia In the days before rock 'n' roll In the music fragment you can hear the typical tuning-nois between 5":05 and 5":15 The song lists singers who influenced the youthful Van Morrison including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elvis, Fats, Sonny, Lightning and above all Ray Charles, the high priest. He also refers to Radio Luxembourg to which thousands of British and Irish teenagers in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s would tune in to on their primitive radios, despite the poor reception, because it played the pop music they wanted to hear. Irish poet Paul Durcan, who co-wrote this song, provides the spoken vocals on this track. In 1988 Durcan wrote: "Myself, if I was Minister for Education, I'd bring in a new curriculum in the morning and top of my list would be Kavanagh and Morrison. All of Kavanagh and Morrison - not my selection or Saint Augustine's selection or Barry McGuigan's selection or Dean Martin's selection but the entire oeuvre and let the audience pick out what they like and what they don't like."

The Sunday Challenge = "Anything else to see? All blurred" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try large on black, to decide. Toggle F11 to get the full experience.

The Sunday Challenge = Speed -------------------------------------------- At first I shot some images with my camera moving around a light in our room (at ISO200/ 1”3/ f22), then mixed some layers together, turned the colours into blue and red, finally I couldn't prevent the plane turning up at high speed

The sunday challenge = Ageing a striking resemblence between skin and sweets, even more over the years ------------------------------------------- It appears there are some appropriate proverbs and quotes - the older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune (Irish proverb) - the older the violin, the sweeter the tune (Hank Thompson) - the older the berry, the sweeter the juice - the older the grapes, the sweeter the wine (Janis Joplin)

The Sunday Challenge = Twisted --------------------------------------------- Sorry, this weekend I've been out. No opportunity to post earlier. Thx for your visit

The Sunday Challenge = Grunge/ not pretty . This weeks challenge comes from Amazingstoker in the suggest a challenge thread -----------------------------------------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = showcase various lamps or other methods of lighting. Be Creative New Photographs this week please ------------------------------------------- "Glow" is an annual light festival in the city of Eindhoven. This construction was made to honor the light bulb, an excellent background for this weeks challenge. Couldn’t find an old fashioned bulb, everything is LED now.

The sunday challenge = Moon, anything to do with the moon. And be creative. -----------------------------------------

Your Challenge This Week: Abstract On Black (new image this week please) -------------------------------------------------------------------- You might think there is nothing to see, but this one comes out ONLY on black, press F11 and then click on the image