PhLB - Luc Boonen's photos

The sunday Challenge = 'Reasons to be Cheerful'. What makes you smile, what makes you happy, what makes you feel good? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday evening our yearly Christmas Truckrun was held. About a hundred truckers are gathering during daytime to eventually pick up mentally disabled people. In the evening they drive through a couple of villages honking their horns loud with permission.....;-) People gather to look and wave at the passengers, having their day of the year...... -----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = each one of us chooses a chrismas card with the wishes texts written in our own langage, and the card being photographed in a place that best represent chrismas spirit for the photographer -------------------------- You won't find much of a Xmas card, the feeling of being left outside in the rain predominates........ What a waste to end a beautiful site in this manner.....I'm sorry.......... --------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = make a SQUARE image and imitate the IMPRESSIONISTIC style. --------------------------------- " Loose short brushstrokes, to depict the light convincingly "....that's in my opinion one of the key points to imitate impressionism. I have a video on YouTube in this style, have a look if you like... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBGUASB7-U ---------------------------------

The sunday challenge = Panning shot --------------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = Maximalism, please share your own interpretation on maximalism.Think out of the box. ---------------------------------------------- Out of the box of my computer I created a pattern and postprocessed it in Photoshop. Within a square a maximum of stars, the red one emphasizes the basic form. A real challenge, out of the box. ---------------------------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = As close as you can get. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Really no time for a macro..... brrr ------------------------------------------------------------------

The sunday challenge = Bonfire Night...........Anything to do with bonfires, fireworks, Guy Fawkes, flames, baked potatoes. Although this is an English tradition, anyone from anywhere can make a shot of a flame or fire of some sort I think. :) ----------------------------------------------------------- The challenge came too early, 11 November we celebrate St. Martin's Day with the bonfire, so I had to create my own bonfire.... Press Z to feel the heat! ------------------------------------------------------ From the late 4th century to the late Middle Ages, much of Europe engaged in a period of fasting beginning on the day after St. Martin's Day, November 11. This fast period lasted 40 days, and was, therefore, called "Quadragesima Sancti Martini", which means in Latin "the forty days of St. Martin." At St. Martin's eve, people ate and drank very heartily for a last time before they started to fast. This period of fasting was later shortened and called "Advent" by the Church. In some parts of the Germany, Netherlands and Belgium, children make their own lantern and go door to door with the lantern, and sing St. Martin songs, in exchange for sweets. The feast coincides not only with the end of the Octave of All Saints, but with harvest-time, the time when newly-produced wine is ready for drinking, and the end of winter preparations, including the butchering of animals. Because of this, St. Martin's Feast is much like the American Thanksgiving (celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November) -- a celebration of the earth's bounty. Because it also comes before the penitential season of Advent, it is seen as a mini "carnivale", with all the feasting and bonfires. In many countries bonfires are built, and children carry lanterns in the streets after dark, singing songs for which they are rewarded with candy. In recent years, the processions that accompany those fires have been spread over almost a fortnight before Martinmas, but previously, the Rhine River valley, for example, would be literally lined with fires on the eve of Martinamas. --------------------------------------------------

The sunday challenge = do the geo-challenge again ! Use the random point generator www.geomidpoint.com/random set your co-ordinates and select 1 point. You can decide how far away you will be prepared to go in miles or kilometers. Go to the point and take a new photo ---------------------------- At 3 km....roundabout art or roundabout debris, very different opinions - a local artist redecorated this roundabout, at first it looked like a terrible accident, but now vegetation has taken over the place, it looks like ..., you tell me? ----------------------------

The Sunday Challenge = Seven heavenly virtues. In the Catholic catechism, the seven Christian virtues or heavenly virtues refers to the union of two sets of virtues: the four cardinal virtues, from ancient Greek philosophy, are prudence, justice, temperance (meaning restriction or restraint), and courage (or fortitude); and the three theological virtues, from the letters of Saint Paul of Tarsus, are faith, hope, and charity (or love). These were adopted by the Church Fathers as the seven virtues. Do one, or all, or any, process or not. -------------------------------------------------- Once given to prisoners, bread and water is the most minimal meal possible - the ultimate temperance