DPS's Weekly Assignment: Landscape

This week's assignment (May 18 - June 1) was landscape, and not just any landscape, but one with the foreground in focus.

The assignment was fun! I visited several scenic places in the neighbourhood and found interesting landscapes with neat foregrounds. Choosing the entry picture was the hard part.

In the end I chose the one below for the entry: Green fields

Green Fields

Other candidates for the entry were:

Dandelion Fields

Rapeseed Fields

Besides the fields, I also took pictures of Lake Pühajärv (The Holy Lake), which is our home lake close to Villa Ottilia.

Today it was pretty windy and it was very obvious that the summer is not yet here. Perhaps in two weeks' time, but not yet.

So I tried to capture the desolate feeling of an empty beach on a windy day with these pictures.

Empty slide waiting for children to come and play

The weather changes quickly from sunny to cloudy

The cafeteria waits for clients to enjoy the view

DPS's Weekly Assignment: sadness

The assignment 11th to 25th of May was sadness.

And here is my entry:

An old woman watching the time go by in a window. It has been taken in the small border town of Valga, Estonia.

Valga itself is quite a sad town - people are poor, the town has little to offer to its citizens. Young people are moving to bigger cities. The old remain, as they have nowhere to go.