Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast

A study in contrasts: the big outdoors versus little people.

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21 thoughts on “Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast”

Amazing photos! The first photo looks like a scene from Gulliver’s Travels. (When Gulliver lands in Brobdingnag and is found by a farmer who is 72 feet tall .) Great idea to show the contrast between the big outdoors and little people!

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 9:26 am said:

Thanks Theresa. We did feel Lilliputian standing underneath those big plants. We do not have plants like that at home, but Gilly Gee correctly identified them as gunnera.

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I love gunnera! great photos for the contrast challenge!

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 8:04 am said:

So is that what it is? We were calling it “giant rhubarb”, for lack of a better name. I should have known a UK person could identify it for me. The first photo was taken at the Blarney castle gardens.

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Wow – it’s like Chinese landscape paintings!

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 8:03 am said:

I hadn’t thought of that but I guess it is.

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Wow! If gunnera is another name for Rhubarb…well I never saw rhubarb that big. I visited Blarney Castle some years ago, but don’t recall those things. Of course, they could have been planted after my time there, or maybe I just didn’t get to that spot 🙂
I especially like the picture of you at the foot of that HUGE rock.

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 2:05 pm said:

Thanks Ann.

Well it’s not rhubarb at all, but the leaves are similar. Thanks to Gilly Gee for identifying it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnera

This planting was in the castle gardens, a bit of a walk away from the touristy part of Blarney. I doubt that most people know it’s there. I found that garden while wandering away from Blarney Castle, in an attempt to get some photos away from the awful crowds.

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- Ann Marquette on March 16, 2012 at 2:27 pm said:
  
  Interesting. Thanks for the link for the explanation of Gunnera. I will check it out.
  No we didn’t get to that part of the Castle property, so no wonder we missed it.

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 2:02 pm said:

Thanks for stopping by FT. Wonderful photo on your blog – the contrast of the clouds just blew me away.

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Beautiful pictures, that shade of green looks very familiar!

elisa

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Huffygirl on March 16, 2012 at 3:50 pm said:

I bet it does. Thanks for stopping by.

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It would be hard to tell how big the background was if the people weren’t there!

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Huffygirl on March 17, 2012 at 8:46 am said:

Yes, I was surprised myself. I’ve seen Sugar Loaf rock many times, but really did not realize how big it was until I saw that picture of me next to it.

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