Saturday, June 13, 2015

Fairy tale

9 comments:

La Nightingail said...

Fairy Tale? So, um, a young girl leaves her charming cottage, walks through a tunnel, and exits into a maze of nightmarish characters and ends up in a very weird-looking place? Maybe I'm unfamiliar with the tale being told?

Mike Brubaker said...

Most artistic. Your shading accentuates the mysterious quality. The giant stone heads put ordinary garden gnomes to shame.

Sean Bentley said...

These were taken at a rather creepy and run-down theme park in Perugia, Italy. I wasn't thinking of a particular or known story, but certainly the elements that these stories hold, of entering another world, fear and mystery, isolation, and the surreal (such as towns populated by animals), allow one to make up strange new narratives for these shots.

Nancy said...

I love your second photo! Beautiful though it is, the poor child probably has no notion of what awaits him/her on the other side. Of course, sleeping can be like that if we have strange dreams.

Brett Payne said...

Great photos. I think we've all been to those run down theme parks that are well past their "use by" date.

Wendy said...

The little cottage has a bit of that "Hansel and Gretel" feel to it. And we all know what was going on there!

Alex Daw said...

What took you to Perugia? I've always wanted to do a language course there.

Little Nell said...

Enchanting!

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