Ailsa (http://wheresmybackpack.wordpress.com) proposed Summer for her photo challenge last week and I was inspired to look long and hard for the right photo to submit. There were no summery images in the war album of photos taken when my father was serving in the Middle East, during the northern winter! So I had to resort to my own recent photos. Now, coincidentally, here’s that summer theme again on this week’s WordPress photo challenge. But I don’t feel disappointed because I have a photo I’ve looked at many times and wondered what theme I could use it for – and low and behold, coincidentally again, Ailsa has put out a new challenge… for Street Markets.
I love it, Trish, a glimpse of street markets in a faraway time and place, just gorgeous. xxx Ailsa
Thanks, and thank you for reading my mind about this theme.
Haha, you’re welcome. 😉
A treasure of a photoTrish….thank-you for sharing
Thank you for seeing it as a treasure!
wonderful shot of a time gone by
Wonderful entry! Love all the vintage details – the weighing scale and their attire!
Thanks. I’m really happy that people like these shots.
Thanks Madhu. I like the scale too; it took me a while to understand that it’s handheld. And I love the dates stacked so tightly. (At least, I think they’re dates.)
What an intriguing photo! Love that you can still “see” the street color even though B&W.
The B&W really enhances the drama to it
Thanks Anne. I agree about the colour; with black and white we can imagine any colours we want. It makes us think a bit harder.
Thanks Jo. I agree. It’s possibly dramatic to us because it’s not our world, like watching a 1940’s movie.
What an interesting photo this is! I also think he’s selling dates. I wondered at first if they were mussels but quickly ruled that out since any seafood would be on ice. I wonder how long it took to stack them so neatly?
I’m glad you like it, Laura. This photo challenge reminded me of a street market in Lyon which I went to often but I have no photos of it. There’s nothing like it here where I live. Did you take photos of French street markets? They’d be relevant to your food blog…
I love the nostalgia of this picture. It reminds me of the brown, dusty and smelly books I used to devour when I was about ten. Stories about adventure, when tourism was still not a word in the dictionary. When people had to travel for long months on camel’s back, trains, boats and caravans and were writing diaries about their discoveries to bring back home scientific observation.
Oh, wow, thanks very much. Your words are as descriptive as the image.
What a perfect image for this theme!!
Thanks. And thanks for all your comments. I like them.
I did take photos of the street markets in Paris but they didn’t turn out very well. I’m grateful for the few good ones I do have.
This is such a wonderful photo, and from so long ago. Fascinating indeed.
I’m glad you like this one. This is the type of photo I prefer to submit to the photo challenge – something of interest from a war zone without the war being visible.
Trish, I am sooo hoping your dad’s albums have a photo of musicians from a bygone era for this week’s challenge. xxx Ailsa http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/06/01/rhythm/
That’s a market shot that I really wish I made.
Thanks. I’m glad it has inspired you. I think it’s the absence of colour that makes it worth looking at more than once.