Category: photo challenge

At first, I thought perhaps it would be a kind of long vacation or sabbatical spending my time abroad. More or less, living in a foreign country makes some difficulties as well as joy of life in new environment, not only by a different language I used to use but from a bunch of small differences in customs. In other words, longer time in a foreign country, more chances to find something different proportionally. 

However reality is always a bit different. Everyday life sometimes means a piled up bored things, such like taking out the garbage or claiming on insurance, with a small happiness. Of course it is enough for everyone. Even if you need to add some exceptional things to do, finding better mask for instance, this year, still the life is enough interesting. Just all I need is a vacation in any way. 

慣れ親しんだ場所とは異なる異国に住むというのは、ある意味長いバカンスのようでいて少し異なる。目の前にどんなに新鮮味のあるワクワクすることがあっても、バカンスは必要なのだ。日常をほんのひととき忘れるために。

A contribution to A Photo a Week Challenge: Vacation Memories by Nancy Merrill Photography.

I don’t find anything nostalgic on those two photos. There was no ferris wheel in my home town where I spent my time when I was a child, nor I have no good memories about it. Just I find myself taking similar picture anywhere, anytime. Empty thing might be also a part of nostalgia.

A contribution to A Photo a Week Challenge: Nostalgic by Nancy Merrill Photography.

すっかりバカンスシーズンの真っ只中になって、いつでも誰かが何かを求めて賑わっている旧市街を除けば、普段の街は何だか静かになってきた。 ようやく晴れて熱くなった車の小さなトランク一杯に5人分の荷物をパズルのように詰め込む様子を見ながら、その家の家族はどこにゆくのだろうと想像し、ようやく解決したトラブルの確認メールに付け足したように「良いバカンスを」という挨拶を互いに送り合いながら、次週の仕事の心配をする。今年の夏がどこかいつもと違って、冬にでも幽閉されたような気分になるのは、おそらくは気のせいでしかない。

Nothing has changed. Everybody’s on vacation and the town is going to be quiet. Only the old town is still crowded by roving people who is perhaps getting lost between past and now. Something is different, as if I were locked away in a tower somewhere, but nothing has changed.

A contribution to A Photo a Week Challenge: Tower by Nancy Merrill Photography.

I’m on a very short vacation at west Brittany just for walking in a drizzle to forget business days. Though I find the rainbow here and there more than 10 times a year but I couldn’t this time. A picture at the bottom was taken 1 month ago.

A contribution to A Photo a Week Challenge: Rainbow by Nancy Merrill Photography.

It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth.

Beryl Markham, West with the Night

Honestly saying, I’m not good at insects. Exactly saying, I used to catch bugs in a forest when I was a child and still like to look at those bustling but I feel something uncomfortable. It’s not so easy to explain what it is.

子供の頃は虫を追いかけたりしたものだが、大人になってどういう訳か虫というものに妙な違和感のようなものを覚えるのである。

A contribution to A Photo a Week Challenge: Insects by Nancy Merrill Photography.