Ese’ s Weekly Shoot&Quote Challenge – Happiness

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Being constantly on the road last week I wasn’t able to post a new prompt but this week things are hopefully getting back to normal again.

Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Happiness;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 18 – HAPPINESS

Do you know I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it’s only that I’m not able to express it…And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God’s sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! /F.Dostoyevsky/

Yes, there’s so much that makes us happy…

…either it is beauty all around…

…something heart has been longing for…

…or freedom and the whole wide world at our feet…

Do you know what makes you happy?

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Memories

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. I am sorry I have fallen behind with my comments. I enjoyed every single one of your entries, just with the load of work right now I haven’ t been able properly to leave footprints of my impressions on your posts. 

Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Memories;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 17 – MEMORIES

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. /Corrie Ten Boom/  So, I travelled back through the years to my favourite places…yes, maybe looking back to be able to keep looking forward…

Though I really feel at home in Burgas, Bulgaria, being up in the Rhodope mountains always takes my breath away

My bella Firenze, bella Italia…even on a grey winter day

Being near the ocean is always an adventure – usually rather unpredictable one, like up there – in Porto, Portugal

And then there’ s always the road to where it all began – Kuldīga, Latvia

Many moons ago…already/still/again happy!

What crosses your mind when you walk down the memory lane?

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 16 – SILENCE

The pause – that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. /M.Twain/ 

The moment before, during or after…expected or not…

These were mine; now it’s all up to your interpretations…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Direction

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Direction;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 15 – DIRECTION

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

And there are so many of them – probable and possible ones.

If on the way up…

…I keep getting stuck,

… the best decision is just to take some time…

…and never give up!

What about you and the directions you have taken or never would?

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intangible

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intangible;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 14 – INTANGIBLE

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope and Wonder. The choice to be a fool is yours. /V.Nazarian/

I can’ t wait to see your interpretations…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Spread

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. My apologies for not giving the proper attention to the challenge previous week – packing before traveling and traveling itself made everything else slightly difficult.

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Spread;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 13 – SPREAD

I am no angel but I have spread my wings a bit. /M.West/ And therefore seen a bit of this and that…

And now – it’s all up to your interpretation!

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt.

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 12 – INTRICATE

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity. /D.Rittner/

I walked down the memory lane… My own history, kind of…through different countries…

…Austria…

…Latvia…

…France…

…Bulgaria.

I am curious to find out what you will come up with…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Obsession

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt.

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Obsession;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 10 – OBSESSION

I only have one obsession – not to be boring. /M.Hazanavicius/

And there’s so much in that one obsession…

…discovering new things that take one’s breath away…

…learning and developing…

…sounds of music…

…finding inner peace…

…spending time with loved ones who make the world turn 🙂

What is your relationship with obsession?

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Ugly

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt.

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Ugly;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 9 – UGLY

The world is as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. /F.Locker-Lampson/
It always depends on how we look at everything and what we see, doesn’t it?

The footprints human beings have left behind

It is all about perception…

What you see is what you get?

Hanging wires have the power to spoil the most beautiful sunset

I am curious to see your interpretations…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Vibrations

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt.
And…I will be sending a few of you a free copy of my book, Butterfly Thy Name, each week, in due course – when it’s finished!

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:
– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Vibrations;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 8 – VIBRATIONS

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. /A.Camus/
All those vibrations that resonate deeply within – their sources out there are so different…

The past…

…music…

…nature…

…love…

And now it’s all about you feeling vibrations…