At the heart of the Forbidden City
See the spectrum of this season’s favourite colours at Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reds and Greens!

See the spectrum of this season’s favourite colours at Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reds and Greens!
Find all kinds of horizontal and vertical this week at Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines!
Cardinal Guzman is the host this week on a Norwegian photography website’s challenge (www.akam.no) and has chosen the theme of Negative Space. Weather not permitting a large abundance of negative space in our corner of the globe at the moment, a backward glance through the archives brought forth two visions – both illustrate the two diametrically opposed sides of one city.
With the muted tones of a Turner painting, London through the fog and mist beckons the weary traveller. Discover more at Travel Theme: Soft.
A fascination with graffiti and architecture combines for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal – Urban. Talk about the changing face of the city in some circles and you’ll either be met with suspicious glares, get embroiled in a heated discussion about the lack of civic leaders’ adequate foresight or will be pleasantly surprised by the rehabilitation of a down and out neighbourhood. A vision, conception, the wrangling of red-tape and public consultation,the first scarily destructive steps taken towards revitalization – all these are but part of the protracted birthing pains leading up to the awakening of a unique community. Like a newborn child, the shell of this building only hints at what it could possibly become.