Lens-Artists Challenge Faces #263

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People, Animals, Faces
Menschen, Tiere, Gesichter

It is a first for us to take part in a photo challenge. Actually, we refused, thinking that this is only something for those who can’t think of anything to blog about. But now we are one of them and that’s why you can find us here.
“You never stop learning” says Selma 🙂 “and you can see how others express a topic.“

Es ist für uns eine Premiere an einer Foto-Challenge teilzunehmen. Eigentlich lehnten wir das ab in der Meinung, dies sei nur etwas für jene, denen nichts einfällt, worüber sie bloggen könnten. Genau zu jenen gehören wir jetzt auch und deswegen findet ihr uns hier.
“Man lernt nie aus” meint Selma 🙂 “und kann schauen, wie andere ein Thema ausdrücken.”

It all started with the faces of the birds. Dina wanted to immortalise her feathered friends, well, as far as a blogpost eternity promises. Here they are, from cheeky to wise, the span we also find in humans.

Alles begann mit den Gesichtern der Vögel. Dina wollte ihre gefiederten Freunde verewigen, naja, so weit eine Blogpost Ewigkeit verspricht. Hier sind sie von kokett bis weise, die Spannweite, die wir auch bei Menschen finden.

Even more than clothes, faces make people. A face is a unique identifier, whether it is a king or a beggar. However, we do not have a beggar in our collection, as they are extremely rare in our village.

Mehr noch als Kleider machen Gesichter Leute. Ein Gesicht ist ein einmaliges Erkennungszeichen, ob beim König oder Bettler. Allerdings haben wir keinen Bettler in unserer Sammlung, da diese in unserem Dorf äußerst selten sind.

These are Dina’s other friends, the big seals. You see, Dina is a Selkie, which, unlike most people, these marine mammals notice immediately and pose for her with joy.

Und dies sind Dinas andere Freunde, die großen Robben. Dina ist nämlich ein Selkie, was diese Meeressäuger im Gegensatz zu den meisten Menschen sofort merken und mit Freude für sie posieren.

These are acquaintances of us big and small, Masterchen, his little sister and who not all. And a rarity, a photo of Dina! These faces say as much as words, we think, even with mouth and nose protection.

Dies sind Bekannte von uns groß und klein, Masterchen, sein Schwesterlein und wer nicht alles. Dabei eine Seltenheit, ein Foto von Dina! Diese Gesichter sagen genauso viel wie Worte finden wir, selbst mit Mund- und Nasenschutz.

Okay, this is our debut in this illustrious photo group. We hope that you won’t make long faces now and we’ll see you here again soon.

Okay, dies ist unser Einstand in diese erlauchte Fotogruppe. Wir hoffen, dass ihr jetzt keine langen Gesichter macht und verbleiben bis demnächst mal wieder hier

The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Many thanks to John for the fun challenge! You can find his invitation here

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© text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers & Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea 2023

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    • Liebe Uschi, lieber Herbert,
      habt herzlichen Dank fürs Kommentieren. Unsere Modelle waren auch wunderschön.
      Mit ganz lieben Grüßen vom sonnigen Meer nach Frankfurt
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thank you VERY much, dear Ute 🙏 🙏
      We are happy that you like Dina’s pictures. We got the idea sailing our canoes on the sea on this wonderful sunny day. It’s the sea-air that inspired us.
      Wishing you all the very best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thank you very much, dear Pete.
      Dina went out every day in the spring to meet the owls. Fortunately they were hunting not far from where we live, just a few steps to walk.
      With love from the sunny coast. We were out on the sea with our canoes. It was gorgeous. We are sure you had a wonderful walk with Ollie.
      Keep well and happy
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thank you very much 🙏 🙏
      Faces is topic we like and as Hanne is the official photographer here she the chances to take interesting photographs. She has a whole file of portraits of famous people. And we always like to have an cheeky or interesting text with the photographs as nearly every great photographer does since Weegee (Arthur Fellig).
      We wonder how the reactions are of our participation in this challenge.
      All the best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  8. Fab Four of Cley,
    You have assembled here a rare and exquisite array of Hanne’s work. I am thrilled to see each one. I went through the post, reading as I went along and then returned to linger at each shot.
    We are always happy to see a post from any and all 4 of you, but this is something special!
    Have a great week – and use any excuse, anytime to give us one of your posts.
    GP

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    • Oh, thank you very, very much, our dear friend GP 🙏 🙏
      Now you got to know all our friends, well, except the king 😉 He is beyond …
      We wish you a great week as well. Ours started with going out to sea with our canoes in lovely sunshine every day. Tomorrow we’ll explore some creeks we have never been in before. These are our little adventure.
      Keep well and happy
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  10. Lovely lovely photos as usual, Dina. And I like how you said this “Actually, we refused, thinking that this is only something for those who can’t think of anything to blog about.” There are indeed so many people who seem to not have a life outside of the many blogging challenges. I don’t understand how some can post 5, 6, or more blog entries every day. Writing a post is time-consuming! And I wonder what those bloggers have going on in their real lives that gives so much time to posting? I do worry about some of them, but of course that is not any of my concern. Excellent post today with so many excellent images and commentary. My best to all the Fab Four of Cley.

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    • Dear Babsje
      We absolutely agree with you. People who blog every day or several times daily are not only having no life outside the blogosphere but the quality of their posts is low. Quantity is more important than quality for those bloggers. We don’t visit such blogs any more. It’s a waste of time. And you can see they are mostly visited by people who blog without much sense as well. To write a decent post takes time to think about it, for research and combining text and pictures.
      Thank you very much. All the best and I hope your eye-problems are solved soon
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • You are so correct when you write “To write a decent post takes time to think about it, for research and combining text and pictures.” Also, I agree about the unfortunate preponderance of quantity over quality. I do, however, visit some of those blogs because there are some bloggers who are recovering from serious illness and some from serious accidents where recovery necessitates being homebound rather than out in the world. And there are people grieving the loss of a spouse or partner or beloved family member, and so they need the comfort of connection that they think they can get from the blogosphere. But I don’t understand the compulsion that drives the others to over-posting. And also thank you for your well wishes for my eyesight, much appreciated. All my best to the Fab Four of Cley.

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    • Dear Babsje
      You mention bloggers with serious illnesses. We think there are not so many around. But this reminds us of Tad Williams’s great novel “Otherland”. We read that many years ago and were taken by it. It’s about seriously ill youngsters meeting in different virtual realities.
      All the best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Habe herzlichen Dank, liebe Greta. Ja, auf die Augen kommt es an bei solchen Portraits.
      Toll, dass dir Dinas Bilder gefallen.
      Habe einen feinen Mittwoch wünschen dir
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thanks a lot, dear Jacqui.
      Yes, with such portraits of people it’s important not to smooth out the faces too much when editing. It’s the lines that matter.
      All the best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  16. Amazing photos! I iike the birds and the seals best. The King I have seen before but they are good captures of him too. The humans are also so well captured. So i hope you will join in with this lens artists challenge again

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    • Good morning, dear Anne,
      well, we have a look if we’ll join this lens artists challenge again but we suppose it could well be. It makes blogging quite easy with a given topic. We had fun combining the pictures with a text – actually to write an entertaining text was quite a challenge this time.
      We wish you a happy rest of the week
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Dear Steve,
      we were a bit tired of blogging. Especially our dear Master was contemplating giving up blogging. He couldn’t find a reason why we should blog. All this came up that after he was pushed by his editor to write another book. That’s finished now and immediately his editor tried to talk him in writing another one. That made him contemplate why going on writing and blogging as well. He could comfortably sit in our garden house reading with a drink or enjoy doing nothing. This lens artist photo challenge was something new for us coming exactly at the right time. We enjoyed it and it was a challenge for our Master to write a text for these galleries, not the normal routine.
      This is one reason. Another reason is that we sometimes don’t find something interesting to blog about. Well, so we didn’t blog and waited for an inspiration. Now the group gives an inspiration. It’s like writing an article for a magazine and provide photos to it. The topic is given. So we don’t do what we are always used to do. We all four had the feeling we need a new challenge that is fun. Of course, it has to be fun because we don’t need to blog. There are so much more activities we like.
      Thanks for asking this question. This is what we like that you are questioned sometimes when blogging.
      All the best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  18. Ein absolut fantastischer Einstand in diese Fotogruppe. Ich kann meine Bewunderung fuer diese Fotos kaum in Worte fassen, liebe Dina! Wie schoen, dass Du Dich entschlossen hast, an dieser Fotochallenge teilzunehmen.
    Loebe Gruesse, auch an die restlichen 3/4 der Fab Four,
    Pit
    P.S.: Hier ist es etwas kuehler als die Tage zuvor, und wir haben sogar ein paar Tropfen Regen – aber leider noch nicht einmal genug, um den Boden durchgehend feucht zu machen. Leider ist der Hurrikan Harold zu weit suedlich an Land gegangen. Daher bekommen wir hier keinen Regen, sondern nur starken Wind mit.

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    • Lieber Pit,
      ich habe mich total gefreut als ich deinen lieben Kommentar las. Vielen Dank dafür!
      Es war eine spontane Idee mit der Fotochallenge und vielleicht machen wir weiter. Jetzt fahren wir zu Blakeney, der Nachbarort wo wir unsere Kanus liegen haben. Hier war der Sommer nass und relativ kühl und wir genießen die kurze Unterbrechung mit Sonne und wärmere Temperaturen und paddeln morgens in die Creeks. Habt ihr ein Fluss or Flüsse in der Nähe? Auch wenn man nicht gut zu Fuß oder Knieproblemen hat, lässt es gut paddeln. Sei ganz lieb gegrüßt, ihr zwei von uns vier.

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    • Guten Morgen, lieber Pit,
      toll, dass dir unser Beitrag gefällt.
      Hier hatten wir wunderschönes Wetter, so dass wir jeden Morgen mit unseren Kanus hinaus paddelten. Da wir ‘wimps’ sind, blieben wir jedoch heute zu Hause, weil wir nur 22 Grad C haben und es ist leicht bedeckt. Dafür liegt Heckeschneiden an.
      Wir drücken fest die Daumen, dass ihr etwas Regen bekommt.
      Mit ganz lieben Grüßen von Norfolk nach Texas
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Hallo Dina,
      leider haben wir hier keinen “paddelbaren” Fluss oder See in der Naehe. Darueberhinaus trocknen hier mittlerweile auch die Fluesse und Baeche aus. Wir habe zur Zeit “water restrictions stage 4 (critical)”: ganz schlimm!
      Mary kann zur Zeit uebrigens gar nicht unternehmen – nicht wegen ihres neuen Knies, sondern weil es ihr ganz allgemein schlecht geht. Sie hat sich eine Blasenentzuendung eingefangen, die sie sehr mitnimmt. Dazu spinnt ihr Herzschlag in den letzten paar Tagen – rauf und runter, trotz Medikamenten. Am Sonntag waren wir im “emergency room” hier im Krankenhaus, und sie haben sie gruendlich durchgecheckt und dabei die Infektion festgestellt. Morgen hat sie einen Nachfolgetermin beim Hausarzt. Haltet mal die Daumen. Sie ist richtig schwach.
      Liebe Gruesse aus einem extrem trockenen Fredricksburg. Macht’s gut,
      Pit

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    • Lieber Pit,
      Wir sind bestürzt über diese alarmierenden Nachricht. Wir halten die Daumen und wünschen Mary von Herzen alles liebe. Möge sie ganz schnell wieder auf die Beine kommen. 🤞🏻🌿🤞🏻Die Trockenheit in Texas ist sehr beängstigend. 😔
      Haltet uns bitte auf dem laufenden. Toi, toi, liebe Mary 🥰 passt du gut auf dich auf, lieber Pit. 🥰

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    • Danke, Ihr Lieben, fuer’s Daumen Halten. Heute Morgen scheint es mir, als ob es (ganz) langsam aufwaerts geht. Mary war “lebendiger” als in den letzten Tagen. Hoffentlich geht es so weiter. Ich werde berichten.
      Das mit unserer Trockenheit ist wirklich sehr schlimm. Es soll fuer die naechsten Tage um die 38 Grad bleiben, und nur am Montag koennte es etwas [minimal] Regen geben, und danach eine “Abkuehlung” auf 33 Grad, ehe es dann wieder aufwaerts geht mit den Temperaturen.
      Liebe Gruesse, und macht’s gut im kleinen Dorf am grossen Meer,
      Pit

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    • Weiterhin gute Besserung für Mary.
      Wir haben hier angenehmes Wetter und ein wenig Regen ist auch in Anmarsch.
      Dann wünschen wir euch ein höchst angenehmes Wochenende
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  20. What a beautiful collection of faces. Every time I see Dina’s photos, I’m awed by their mastery. The superb sharp focus and the ability to capture the very best of her subject – human or animal or bird (or seal) shows how skilful Dina is.

    I’m so glad I have a large screen iMac on which to view them (as my eyesight leaves a lot to be desired, despite strong glasses).

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  24. Mir gefällt dieser wunderbare Mix an Gesichtern ausgezeichnet. Vor allem auch, weil die Fotos bestechend schön sind, geradezu makellos.
    Beneidenswert!
    Ich schaue gerne in Gesichter von Menschen und Tieren – sie erzählen ohne Worte von tausend und einer Nacht. :–)
    Einen lieben Gruss,
    Brigitte

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    • Liebe Brigitte,
      danke für deinen lieben Kommentar. Wir finden Gesichter auch sehr spannend. Sehr schön, wie du es ausdrücktest, ‘sie erzählen ohne Worte von tausend und einer Nacht’. Das gefällt uns sehr 👍
      Ganz liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Danke, liebe Martina,
      heute Morgen war es etwas kühler, da es bedeckt war, weswegen wir nicht wie die letzten Tage mit unseren Kanus hinausgefahren sind und stattdessen eine Hecke von unserem Grundstück schnitten. Dann wurde es sonnig und warm und schwitzend beendeten wir die Arbeit.
      Dir wünschen wir eine wunderbare Restwoche voller Sonnenschein und guter Laune.
      Ganz liebe Grüße von uns
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Ich sehe, dass ihr doch noch einige Arbeiten erledigen könnt, was bei uns mit 36 Grad am Schatten für uns nicht mehr möglich ist, ausser wir würden um 6.00 morgens beginnen!! Gute Laune wünsche ich auch euch 🤣

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    • Habe ganz herzlichen Dank für deinen Kommentar.
      Dina fotografierte das Vögelchen an einer Stelle bei uns, wo Vögel mit Netzen gefangen, gewogen und beringt werden, bzw. wo Ringe von bereits beringten Vögel eingelesen werden.
      Mit lieben Grüßen vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  29. Well what a lovely surprise to find the Fab Four participating in our challenge! Of course Dina’s images are outstanding, especially the beautiful birds. I also was drawn to the little boy in the midst of the people images. And of course I remember the post about Hanne and the seals which were a perfect fit for the week. We hope you’ll continue to find interesting subjects to tempt you all to join us for future posts. Wishing you a lovely rest of the week.

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    • Good morning, dear Tina,
      thank you very much for your kind words.
      In the summertime Dina likes to photograph the birds around here and during the winter the grey seals at Blakeney Point.
      We’ll have a look if there are topics for your photo challenge we can contribute. The problem is that for us photo and text are equally important. We don’t see our blog as a photoblog it’s more like a magazine with pictures and text. But we’ll see …
      Keep well and happy
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Dear Thorsaurus
      Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma love this little white seal. They visited it every day last season. Now they are looking forward to the new season starting around the end of October.
      Thanks for liking Dina’s pictures.
      Wishing you a happy rest of this week
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Gaaaanz herzlichen Dank, liebe Vera. Schön, dass Hanne-Dinas Fotos Freude ins Herz zaubern konnten. Das sollten sie auch.
      Herzliche Grüße vom Meer
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  32. So viele schöne Fotos! Erst wollte ich schreiben:”Oh, da sieht ein Vögelchen besonders süß aus!”, aber dafür sind es einfach am Ende zu viele Fotos, mit Menschen und Tieren. Der aus dem Fenster sehenden Pfarrer sieht sehr nett aus.

    “Mehr noch als Kleider machen Gesichter Leute. Ein Gesicht ist ein einmaliges Erkennungszeichen, ob beim König oder Bettler. Allerdings haben wir keinen Bettler in unserer Sammlung, da diese in unserem Dorf äußerst selten sind. ”
    Könige und Prinzen kommen öfter vor.

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    • Unser Pfarrer ist ein Kunstbeflissener. Er ist ein großer Förderer der Künste hier und seine Frau, die neben ihn aus dem Fenster schaut, ist Konzertpianistin.
      In der Tat, Könige & Prinzen haben wir hier weitaus öfter als Bettler, obwohl wir Bettler fotogener finden.
      Danke fürs Kommentieren
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  33. Dina has a remarkable ability to capture the essence of the subjects she portrays. Her portraits bring out unique personalities and tells us a compelling story about their lives of humans and the amazing creatures that share our world.

    A wonderful way to engage in a photo challenge. Sending much love and many hugs to my dear friends, The Fab Four of Cley.

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    • Dear Rebecca
      thank you very much for your kind words 🙏🙏
      With hugs 🤗🤗 an love 🥰🥰 from us flying across the bid waters to our dear friends in Vancouver
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  34. I am delighted to find your always beautiful and interesting photos and thoughts here, Dina and Klausbernd! Glad you found a theme worth participating in, and hopefully you will find other opportunities as well. Love the birds and the seals, but all your portraits are mastered with excellence.

    I know it is mainly a photo challenge, but many participants write just as much text as well. I have been ready to give it up many times, because blogging takes a lot of time. Life has been tough on me and my family the last years, so I haven’t been able to put that much effort into my posts as I used to. Nowadays I find it is the friendships made here that matters most to me. Still I hope my posts are not that bad. They keep me going and redirect my thoughts in a more positive direction. Thank you for being out there, all of you. ♥♥♥♥

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    • Dear Ann-Christine
      your posts are not bad at all! We always like to look at your pictures and reading and enjoying your texts.
      We hope that your and your family’s situation will soon turn to the better. We keep our fingers crossed and Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma send their healing fairy magig 💫✨✨🌟✨✨💫
      With lots of love
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Dear Ann-Christine
      I think this lens artists challenge would even be better if the participants would criticise each other, especially negative critique, so that we could learn from each other.
      We are just working on the new challenge about primary colours, which is “my topic’ as I wrote quite a lot of books about it and made some films about red, black and white for the German TV – but that’s many years ago. Funnily enough my editor just asked me if I would like to take part in a multimedia project about colours writing all the texts. I haven’t decided yet as I am retired and enjoy being lazy.
      Wisching you all the best
      Klausbernd 🙂

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    • Yes, critique should be delivered nicely – and if it were possible to choose critique for our followers, that would be good. Far from everyone wants critique though.
      I know about lazy.. I have turned to a bit of that since retiring. I must really feel for it if I have to work…Good luck on deciding!
      ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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  35. Wunderbar! So schöne Augen auf wunderbaren Fotos!!
    Wir haben das Thema Augenblick auch einmal gewählt und in Verbindung gebracht mit dem zeitlichen Augenblick.

    Liebe Grüße,
    Syntaxia

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    • Guten Morgen, liebe Syntaxia,
      habe herzlichen Dank für dein Lob. Da geben wir dir völlig recht, die Augen geben einem Foto Lebendigkeit. Sie wurden oft als Fenster der Seele betitelt.
      Wir wünschen dir ein höchst erfreuliches Wochenende.
      Liebe Grüße
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thank you very much, dear Charlotte 🙏🙏
      Dina recently photographed Iestyn Davis, Craig Ogden, Hanna Hipp, Liv Redpath and the English Chamber Orchestra. We got to know them all at several performances in our church (which is famous for music performances).
      All the best and keep well and happy
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • This has to do with our vicar’s wife being a concert pianist, with our cathedral-like empty church, and all the celebrities living in our village and around here.
      Hanne-Dina is known for her photography often asked for taking pictures of the artists.

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  37. Wunderschöne Fotos – vielen Dank.
    Ich habe es genossen, diesen Menschen in aller Ruhe ins Gesicht zu schauen, ohne dass man schnell aneinander vorbei huschte oder es peinlich wurde, weil man sich “anstarrt”. Auch dafür vielen Dank.
    Herzliche Sonntagsgrüße
    Belana Hermine

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    • Guten Morgen, liebe Belana Hermine,
      ein toller Aspekt, den du ansprichst. Das war uns nie zuvor so recht bewusst geworden, dass man bei Portraits den abgebildeten Personen so lange man möchte in die Augen schauen kann. Danke!
      Wir haben gerade ein langes Wochenende, am Montag ist Bank Holiday, ich glaube das letzte vor Weihnachten, und da sind ‘Kind und Kegel’ unterwegs. Wir bleiben deswegen gemütlich zu Hause.
      Mit lieben Grüßen vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  38. Beautiful series of photos, and I too believe that Dina is a selkie ~ those smiles and posing for the camera is something special. Also the bird photos are beautiful, I especially like the opening shot… and also Prince Charles is very well done 🙂 Cheers to a great weekend ahead.

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    • Thank you very much, dear Randall.
      Dina loves to photograph portraits of all beings with skin, feathers and fur.
      Wishing you a wonderful weekend as well
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  39. How did I miss this amazing post. Dina’s photography is excellent, both animal and human faces. In the opening bird grouping, you can read the birds’ expressions. And it only gets better from there. What a wonderful way to start my morning.

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    • Hi Anne
      thank you VERY much for your kind words.
      Dina is very much into photographing portraits right now. She has a project to photograph everybody who wants to in our village and exhibit her pictures in our church which is a perfect venue for such exhibitions.
      All the best, happy weekend
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Thank you very much, dear Amy.
      We think that our dear Dina is best when photographing portraits of animals and people.
      Wishing you an easy weekend
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    • Dear Egidio,
      thanks a lot for liking Dina’s photography.
      This challenge came just at the right time for us. The last two topics were ideal for us.
      Keep well, happy and healthy
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  43. This is superb, my friends! I don’t know where to start – but I’ll start with the Gannet. I hoped to see one in Iceland but I didn’t. I’ve always wanted to see one. Your photos of these photogenic creatures could not be better. And your seal photos are equally brilliant – they have so much life! It’s clear that you have an understanding of them that stretches beyond the species barrier. You did something clever with the photos of Prince Charles – his lapel flower and pocket handkerchief switched sides! 😉 It’s wonderful the way you put people at ease when you make portraits – everyone looks natural, relaxed, and happy. Bravo!

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