I was inspired by Mathai‘s photograph of corn to look for something to capture inside the home. I couldn’t believe that I managed to leave these alone for so long.
Since the beginning of my working life, I collected match boxes from restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels. Whenever I remembered, wherever I happened to be, I asked for one and placed it in my pocket. I still don’t know why I started this – but on this rainy Friday evening – I’m so glad I did.
The children saw me take them out of the spaghetti jars. Now that they know what they are, I’m worried they would play with them, so I removed every single matchstick from all the boxes. What you see here is less than half!
Hers is what I will do for fun. The next post will be photographs of the boxes of all the restaurant, cafes etc; and the following one will be of hotels. I will put the names of all the places, including the city and country.
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hehe! looking forward to the pics! 😉
try this, “another motocross race tomorrow at 1pm”
i hope they don’t serve the same greasy shawerma they had last week
Do you smoke? I hope not! I like the match heads with white and blue, kind of unique 🙂
Loved the first shot! Lots of depth!
Nice shots ! I like the colored matches. EAT+SLEEP is perfect for this weather 🙂
and thanks for the honorable mention, I’m flattered 😀
Its the ‘matches’ season i guess! 🙂 yes i go for the first one too. and surprised to see the varied pleasant coloured match heads!
and a big WOW! for the impressive collection of boxes! 🙂
— sadia
One done another to go.
— Adrenaline
Thanks. Unfortunately I’m busy today! NExt time inshallah.
I didn’t try the food last time – but that cold drink came at the right time 🙂
— Akbar
I’vel also seen pink! A london restaurant.
— Marzouk
Thank you. Hope you can use it as a desktop wallpaper 🙂
— Mathai
Thank you and well deserved. I meant what I said. That photo was inspiring. Keep it up.
— onlooker
Thanks 🙂 Enjoy…
The first picture is very eye-catching. 🙂
Thanks MacaholiQ8
I collect matchboxes too!! Lovely photos by the way
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