Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt - September

We've reached the end of September, the weather here is definitely autumnal now, and it's time to wrap up the Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt organised by Mary-Lou at Patio Postcards. 

She gave us a list of twenty items and two alternatives to find and photograph between 1st June and 30th September and we've shared our progress each month. I barely got started in June, had a better July and just bagged the alternatives in August. 

September was always going to be prime scavenger-hunting time for me as we went on a cruise to Spain, Portugal and Morocco, day after day with a camera in my hand, so here are this month's finds:

1. The Rosiness of Red
Sampling the port at Croft's in Vila Nova de Gaia.

2. Stripes
The paving in Praça Dom Pedro IV, Lisbon.

3. A Framed View
Sunrise off Casablanca through our cabin porthole.

4. Wings
The 'Genio del Cristianismo' in Cádiz, Spain.

5. Pedal Power - See June

6. Glorious Green
Gardens in Vigo.

7. An Unexpected Reflection
The medieval Elvet Bridge in Durham at night.

8. A Pile Of...
Stone 'packing cases' forming a breakwater at Leixões.

9. Looks Smaller Than You
The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca (which is 210m tall).

11. Pretty in Pink - See July

12. Bells
We saw bells in church towers everywhere; these were all in Porto.
(Igreja dos Carmelitas, Torre dos Clérigos, Igreja de São José das Taipas, Igreja de Santo Ildefonso, Sé do Porto, Igreja de Santa Marinha)

14. A Trilogy of Three
Three of the four Fred. Olsen ships near Cádiz; we were on the fourth as all four ships met in the same port to celebrate 170 years of the company's involvement in shipping.

15. Out of the Blue
A helicopter in Cádiz.

17. Re-purposed
'The Bull's Head' by Pablo Picasso, made from a bicycle saddle and handlebars. This isn't my photo, but we did see this piece in the Picasso Museum in Málaga (where photography was not permitted).

Photo: Wall Street Journal

18. Currency: Coinage or Paper
This globe contains a collection of various currencies donated by the ship's passengers, which will be given to the RNLI.

19. Picture Postcard Perfect
There are so many photos I could have chosen here; this is Porto from the Ponte Dom Luis I. 

20. Mellow Yellow
The Ascensor da Bica, a funicular in Lisbon.

Fifteen out of twenty here, plus two from earlier months and both the alternatives mean that I almost completed the hunt this year. With a little more care and attention I might have managed the missing three (a field of plenty, equal portions and something that could be from a favourite book or film) but I'm out of time now.

Please hop over to Mary-Lou's blog and from there you can check out what my fellow scavenger hunters have been finding via the list of blog links.

Now, how long until the winter hunt starts...