"PAIRINGS" -- HAF Photo Challenge Poll

[hermes2015]

I'm sorry Hermes...I forgot to do the background stuff. Please forgive me

Thanks for the info, but you will still have to drink six Bloody Marys for your sin.

[hermes2015]

... Tried to use a flash, but it didn't turn out that good)

I usually hate using flash - prefer available light.

[Lark]

Thank you to everybody who voted for my photos. The mare and foal sculptures are in a grove of trees at the Irish National Stud, and are formed from driftwood.

As for my other photos, #2 is a netsuke depicting a pair of Go players in the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford. #7 is a companionable pair of young horses, again at the Irish National Stud. The leaping dog sculpture (#12) is from a temporary exhibit at RHS Wisley, a spectacular garden operated by the Royal Horticultural Society in Surrey. #22 is a pair of box turtles who live with their friends in a garden on Key West in Florida.

Thank you to Papasito Bruno for running the challenge, and for the lovely hand-knitted sweater and the splendid potato peeler.

For the next photo challenge, I've chosen the theme "A Piece of History." Anything historical can be the subject, including for instance buildings, monuments and statues, historical clothing, art, etc., etc.

I'll be posting a thread for this soon, or will ask Recusant to do so.

[Magdalena]

Congratulations, Lark. 

[Magdalena]

I'm sorry Hermes...I forgot to do the background stuff. Please forgive me

Thanks for the info, but you will still have to drink six Bloody Marys for your sin.

I didn't participate, may I please be punished as well.

[Magdalena]

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This picture was also taken in the city of Comayagua in Honduras. Picture of my wife and mother-in law waling back to my mother-in laws house after a morning trip to the local market. I really like this photograph, it's one of a dozen or so that I snapped while they were walking in front of me that morning. I like the similarity in they way they walked, the angle of their heads, even the way they swing their arms.
Almost as if the same person walking alongside their future or past self

I voted for this one. It reminded me of my happy childhood in El Salvador.

[hermes2015]

I'm sorry Hermes...I forgot to do the background stuff. Please forgive me

Thanks for the info, but you will still have to drink six Bloody Marys for your sin.

I didn't participate, may I please be punished as well.

Oh very well, if you want to be masochistic. Eight Bloody Marys, young lady.

[Lark]

Congratulations, Lark. 

Thank you, Magdalena. 

Also, I meant to say in my previous post that my favourite photo was hermes2015's seagulls.

[hermes2015]

Congratulations, Lark. 

Thank you, Magdalena. 

Also, I meant to say in my previous post that my favourite photo was hermes2015's seagulls.

Thank you for the kind words, Lark.

Your suggestion for the new theme is very good.

[Dragonia]

Yes, Lark, it's a great theme for next time! I'm very excited to see what kind of pics get turned in!

[Sandra Craft]

For the next photo challenge, I've chosen the theme "A Piece of History." Anything historical can be the subject, including for instance buildings, monuments and statues, historical clothing, art, etc., etc.

I'll be posting a thread for this soon, or will ask Recusant to do so.

Cool, I actually have some of those.  Should we send submissions to you, or are you still sorting that out?

[Recusant]

Cool, I actually have some of those.  Should we send submissions to you, or are you still sorting that out?

I'll be handling the logistics for Lark, so please send me your entries. 

Might as well give the subjects for my photos while I'm here.

#2

A pair of butterflies working on the next generation. Unfortunately I don't know the species they were perpetuating. They look like they could possibly be Torquatas Swallowtail, but it's hard to say, since the undersides of their wings aren't visible in the photo.

#8

The "Glasshouse" at RHS Garden Wisley, just south of the M25 in Surrey, UK.

#13

Royal coat of arms of Great Britain, on the front of a steam locomotive at the National Railway Museum York.

#18

Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, in Washington state in the US.

#23

Lorenzo the "Flying Frenchman" works with 6 of his 12 Camargue horses at the Olympia Horse Show in London.