A photographic challenge - nested
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (341947)
Rockingham, Australia
March 3, 2021 6:07am CST
My husband belongs to several photographic Facebook sites. One has a weekly challenge. This week, the challenge is ‘nested’. The explanation given was ‘similar objects of graduated sizes, placed or stored one inside the other. But the topic can be interpreted any way the photographer wants.
With this in mind, I remembered a set of wooden Baboushka dolls I had. These are also known as Russian or nesting dolls. Mine is a set of five and each fits inside the next in size until you are left with just one doll.
The other item I remembered belonged to my mother. It would have come from an Asian country and consists of a perfumed flower enclosed in a decorative container. Even after all these years, the aroma is quite strong, I guess because the container is always kept closed.
While not particularly inventive, perhaps one or the other of these items will suffice if Vince can’t come up with anything better.
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@Juliaacv (51525)
• Canada
3 Mar 21
I believe that my Gramma had a little decorative container with a flower in it like your mother had.
My own mother had an authentic set of nesting dolls from the Ukraine, but they looked differently as I believe that they all had the same painting on the front of them.
I have a couple of sets of casserole dishes and mixing bowls that fit into each other like that.
I wonder how they come up with the ideas for their photography challenges.
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@JudyEv (341947)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 21
The dolls are typical of Eastern European countries I think.
@RebeccasFarm (90381)
• Arvada, Colorado
6 Mar 21
I am in love with those nesting dolls Judy always have been
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@RebeccasFarm (90381)
• Arvada, Colorado
7 Mar 21
@JudyEv I do not have any no sadly
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@jobelbojel (36023)
• Philippines
5 Mar 21
The name Baboushka dolls is alien to me. Now I know the name of this Russian dolls.
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@jobelbojel (36023)
• Philippines
6 Mar 21
@JudyEv yes, same thing. I only know it as Russian dolls.
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@LindaOHio (181498)
• United States
4 Mar 21
Very nice photos. I think the Baboushka dolls are a good choice.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
3 Mar 21
well you said nested and I went a completely different way. Now I have to sit on these eggs til they hatch!
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@JudyEv (341947)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar 21
@DocAndersen I hope you are having a quacking good time.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
4 Mar 21
@JudyEv truly so do I, its been two days so far. I feel like a mama duck!
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@DaddyEvil (137580)
• United States
3 Mar 21
Both items are quite nice.
We have a set of the Russian dolls but the smallest one is the size of a grain of rice. I'm not sure where Pretty put them after we moved. I don't think she sent them to the thrift shop.
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@DaddyEvil (137580)
• United States
4 Mar 21
@JudyEv I'm not sure. Either three or five. I haven't seen it in a couple of years.
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@wolfgirl569 (108037)
• Marion, Ohio
4 Mar 21
@JudyEv That would work also. Especially pots of different sizes.
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