Where’s Helena?

Don’t worry I didn’t put on a striped top and hide in a crowd for a photo!  Although it would be kind of fun.

But I am away on another work trip – running a workshop on planning for an election commission.  But where?  can you guess from these clues?

I transited through Nairobi airport and then saw this out the window on my final flight

 

It is 34 C (93 F) outside so I am very pleased to have aircon on all the time.   This is where I am staying.

We bought these at the morning market, most are grown locally

 

I can’t share photos from out and about in town because you have to have a permit to take photos and it is enforced, so not worth the risk.

Final clue – I’m in the newest nation state.  Any one know or prepared to guess where I am? 

Answer on Wednesday when I share my look up look down.

PhotoArt Friday creates timetravel

As soon as I read Bonnie’s challenge for this week ‘collage’ I was transported back to my Art class at around the age of 12 or 13 when we created a large collage, using fabrics and other media, from an image that we had drawn – mine was a large elephant. 

So I went with that idea and rather than draw an image I googled free colouring in pictures and chose one that had lots of distinct shapes that I could ‘cut out’ and fill.  I used a range of texturally interesting  photos that I had collected a couple of years ago for a class.  Much easier than my school experience but the process of cutting out the patters for each stage was still frustratingly dull.

 

The cat is covered if 2 images of carpet; the flower pot is the sea.  I added a bevel effect to some layers for variety.  It does remind me of the elephant collage and was a fun process

I then decided to play with using a simple shape and filling with some photos – I used images I’d taken of the spring flowers in my garden to fill a bunch of heart shaped balloons – another fun image

looking forward to seeing how others approach the idea of a collage in PhotoArt Friday. 

Look up look down inside

I stayed inside for my snaps this week.  The up is the word on top of my display unit – its been a well used word since I could talk !  and the down is my Easter collection in one of the spaces in the same display unit

Still enjoying the added perspective each week of looking up and looking down and seeing what others are doing with this meme

March in numbers

April already, maybe Spring weather will turn up soon too!

Joining in with Julie’s month in numbers again

No April fools items in here – always tricky reading anything on 1st April.