Le monde en couleurs

crazy orange daylilies are back! ----- Asus Zenfone

One of my bookshelves. This is for HaarFager He'll know why when/if he sees this shot. ----- Asus Zenfone

Armed Forces Day , known also as the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Święto Wojska Polskiego ), is a national holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in Poland, commemorating the anniversary of the 1920 victory over Soviet Russia at the Battle of Warsaw during the Polish–Soviet War. ... Armed Forces Day is celebrated throughout Poland, with military parades, commemorations for active personnel, veterans, and the dead. As the day coincides with the religious Day of the Assumption, church masses across the country reflect on the memory of Poland's military dead. The Battle of Warsaw 1920. The Defeat of the Empire of Evil : The Battle of Warsaw in 1920 was not only a culminating moment of the Polish-Bolshevik war but also one of the decisive events in the history of Europe and the world. The British diplomat Lord Edgar Vincent D’Abernon, an eyewitness to those events, claimed in his book The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World that the Poles had saved the Western civilization from the fanatical tyranny of the Soviet. Unfortunately, the European nations are not aware of this historical fact. I took this shot depicting members of the Representative Honor Guard Regiment of the Polish Armed Forces (and the regimental military band) in August 2015 at Pęcice but I think it fits today celebrations quite well. ----- Mamiya 645 AF + Kodak Portra 160 + Tetenal Colortec

My grapes will turn pink and sweet in September. Provided starlings won't rob them first. ----- Samsung NX10

It is not much of a shot but there is a story there. It looks like my tenants (Eurasian collared doves living on my garden) played a prank on me. You see, last Friday (on the World Photography Day) I went out onto my south second floor terrace to check upon those magnolia seeds No big change there, not worth documenting. Then I looked a bit up and just in front of me I saw this! A nest placed on a magnolia branch, less than 2 meters from me. Obviously nobody was home. The family moved out, but I can observe them almost every day when the three of them sit at the balustrade of my upper balcony and the parents feed the little one (it is a bit smaller than the adults). Now how come that I didn't spot them earlier when they occupied the nest? How did they disguise? No idea! Do doves laugh? They must have been laughing seeing me so near and not noticing them. ----- Samsung NX10

Heatwave, drought... Everybody around is complaining. My neighbors try to save their gardens and they fail. I am not. I didn't water my garden even once this year. You see, in several past years my neighbors raised their properties areas and that why I am flooded every time when heavy rains come. Their water (and fertilizers) come down to my garden. Plants in my private jungle are thriving now. Revenge is so sweet! ----- Asus Zenfone

Calluna vulgaris 'Alicia' I took this shot today in a local grocery / convenience store. I felt tempted to buy a pot with lovely white little flowers but I knew that I couldn't bring them home. You see, ever since I was a little kid I was told by my Mom that heather was bad luck. She learned it in September 1939 when she was ten years old. Summer 1939 was beautiful. Hot and sunny. Heather thrived. My grandparents house was full of heather. All shades of pink and purple. Then on September 1, 1939 the Second World War begun. My Grandma threw away all flowers and banned all those that were there from being brought back ever. I think that the cultivar that was on sale today is named 'Alicia'. My Mom's name is Alicja / Alice too. ----- Asus Zenfone

I am browsing my digital archives again. I am finding things and memories of my 'digital past'. This one is from a year when I was into ceilings ;) ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

I am browsing my digital archives again. It looks like I was into ceilings for much longer than I thought ;) ----- Samsung Digimax Pro 815

looking up (at Hotel Savoy in Łódź, Poland) ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Marta's colorful tiles unpacked, put into display frames and waiting to be hanged on the walls of Fotomato - my favorite small restaurant and pizzeria in Łódź, Poland. Long, very long time ago... I never intended to publish this (documentary) shot but it is a good example of how one evolves. What I shoot now is so different ;o ----- Olympus C-8080WZ

Decoration of a wall over the bar counter at Fotomato - once my favorite little restaurant and pizzeria in Łódź. I do not remember the name of the artist who authored it but I was told that he had been a student / acquaintance of Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro - renown Polish avant-garde artists (a painter and a sculptor) in the 1950s. I used to photograph this wall a lot as it looked very different depending on the time of day and light (natural coming from windows or artificial from above). I hope that they didn't demolish this beautiful piece of art when they renovated the building some years ago. Artists who apparently rent the place now are as far detached from unism and constructivism art as they can be. ----- Olympus C-8080WZ