Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt

It's been a few years since I participated in a Photography Scavenger Hunt, but Amy at Snap Scrap Repeat has set one this year and I decided to take join in. There are 30 prompts, which are being followed by ten scrapbooking challenges to get those photos onto pages.

We've just got back from a cruise, or rather two back-to-back cruises, firstly to Iceland and then Around Britain, and I was aiming to get all the prompts covered while we were away. I toyed with sharing the photos here in chronological order, but that got too tricky, so here they are in the order that the prompts were originally posted:

1. Love - The red traffic lights in central Akureyri are heart-shaped.

2. Reflection - A sculpture called Spegilsmynd (Reflection) by Hans Pauli Olsen, outside the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands in Tórshavn.

3. Wings - A bee visiting the foxgloves in Akureyri's Botanical Gardens.

4. Colourful - A shrine atop Skúlahóll (Skúli's Hill) on Viðey Island.

5. Sun - Approaching totality of the solar eclipse.

6. Bloom - A display in Akureyri; I've never seen ornamental cabbages so big.

7. Looking up - the hillside above Ísafjörður.

8. Stripes - Skólavörðustígur or Rainbow Street in Reykjavík.

9. Path - Another rainbow path, this time in Seyðisfjörður.

10. Travel - On a cruise ship, or a smaller boat?

11. Bridge - We sailed from Rosyth, so this one had to be the iconic Forth Bridge.

12. Shadow - In the shadow of the moon, totality of the solar eclipse.

13. Home - Our 'home' for these three weeks was the cruise ship Balmoral.

14. Clouds - It was cloudy for totality, but the clouds then parted to give us a dramatic sky.

15. Treat - A marshmallow ice cream in Seyðisfjörður, certainly a treat at 900ISK (about £5.50) each. 

16. Entrance - The gangway onto our ship.

17. Wild - Icelandic ponies

18. Celebrate - Winning the evening quiz.

19. Wood - A sculpture outside the Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum in Reykjavík.

20. Furry Friend - Souvenir teddy bears.

21. Looking Down - as a tender docked alongside the ship in Guernsey.

22. Pattern - The paving outside Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavík.

23. Evening Light - Sunset after we sailed from Guernsey.

24. Glass - A window in Akureyrarkirkja.

25. Stone - A monument to Skúli Magnússon, "the father of Reykjavík".

26. Arch - A whalebone arch in Jónsgarður (Jon's Garden), the oldest park in Ísafjörður.

27. Play - One of the music recitals, with Caroline Clipsham at the piano.

28. Close-up - A hydrangea in Carreg Dhu Gardens, St Mary, Isles of Scilly.

29. Sit - A bench with a wreath in Reykjavík.

30. Water - Strokkur, a geyser, erupting in Iceland.

So, all done in a few weeks. Most are literal depictions of the prompt, and a few are more figurative. Some photos could even have fitted more than one of the prompts. Now I'm itching to start on the albums for this holiday. There will be two, keeping the cruises separate, but more on that in due course.