This week’s challenge: Juxtaposition.
I’ve kept that picture in store forever, not finding the right moment to take it out. How odd that Michelle uses a picture of hers taken at the very same place in Cambodia, Tuol Sleng Prison. I guess it’s not so innocent that beauty shows up in places of great sorrow and horror.
[Fr] Je garde cette photo de côté depuis un long moment, n’ayant pas trouvé l’instant approprié pour la montrer. Étrange donc de voir que la photo que Michelle poste pour illustrer le challenge photo du jour ait été prise au même endroit, dans la prison de Tuol Sleng au Cambodge. Je crois qu’il n’est pas anodin alors que la beauté essaie de prendre le pas sur la tristesse et l’horreur vécues à un tel endroit.
[Es] He guardado ésta foto desde mucho tiempo, no sabía cuándo iba a poder mostrarla. Que raro entonces que Michelle use una foto suya tomada en el mismo lugar – la prisión de Tuol Sleng en Camboya – para illustrar el reto foto de la semana. Sin embargo, no me parece tan sorprendiente que belleza intente borrar toda la tristeza y el horror vivido en un lugar como ése.
Other interesting mixes found on the web:
Weekly Photo Challenge – Filimages
Weekly Photo Challenge – JGTravels
Weekly Photo Challenge – Cyan Skies
Weekly Photo Challenge – Mittened Hands
Weekly Photo Challenge – Max510’s Blog
and the usual hundreds other players on the Dailypost page!
Happy, Beautiful week-end to all!
Les Petits Pas de Juls 
Stunning photo that illustrated the theme. Thank you.
thank you for stopping by and letting me know what you thought!
Oh Juls, this is one of my favorites of your photos. So much to say with no words needed. Beautifully captured
Oh Tina, I’m so flattered when you or Jeff tell me those kind words!
Magnifique photo…quel contraste et quelle…histoire !!!!
Bisous
ouaip… c’est un de ces endroits pas fáciles á visiter…
Perfect! It has such a stark feel, with the flower being the one bright spot in an otherwise somber scene.
« perfect »?!!! thank you so much!
Really great interpretation !
thank you so much!
Well, it was worth the wait!
That flower seems so delicately placed, with such a prayerful attitude – as if to atone for the harshness of the environment.
it completely does; when you know that visitors can’t get through the bars and wouldn’t have been able to do it, you wonder even more… and it gives the whole scene such a peaceful air in spite of everything
What a beautiful photo! I love the small beauty of the flower against the stark emptiness of everything else.
janet
yes, it was very powerful and delicate at the same time
La froideur du métal, la beauté fragile d’une fleur. La parfaite juxtaposition avec une jolie lumière en plus. Bravo !
Merci!!!!
great picture.
thanks! 😉
Powerful capture…with that hinge of sadness but also beauty very present.
thanks! beauty emanated from the whole scene in spite of the sadness in the atmosphere; it relieved a bit our shaken hearts
Ce’st jolie…
Merci!
Excellent take on the theme….
😀 Thanks!
Merci pour la dédicace ! 😉
my pleasure to share!