Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

Dunno what this ostrich was actually trying to say, but I’m pretty sure he meant it. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Can you see what it is yet? This is a ‘doctored’ detail – complete with shadows – of the roof of a villa at the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. To put it into context, here’s another image:    

Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth

“Warmth” certainly gives plenty of scope for interpretation. Below is one take on it: an image from a few years ago of a very small and very warm grandson surrounded by very warm colours in a children’s playground in Abu Dhabi (it was October: trust me, it was warm). For a completely different take on “warmth”, here is my contribution on this topic for…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow

To fit this week’s theme, another image from the inexhaustible fount of photographic possibilities that is Dubai Mall. This one is a lantern, or chandelier if you prefer. I placed the camera on the floor and hovered around it protectively while the exposure was made.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

Another image from Dubai Mall, this one of an ornamental pool on the way down to the underground car park (it’s Dubai, what do you expect?)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten

A discarded flower, perhaps given added poignancy by the fact that it had been a buttonhole worn at a wedding I attended last summer.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular

This is the very imposing (and very angular) exterior of St Mary’s Church in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

This is a picture I took a few years ago as part of my ‘homework’ assignment for a weekend photography course I was taking in Abu Dhabi. The course leader didn’t particularly care for it, but I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for it and it seems to fit this week’s brief. It’s a candle (well, duh) with a convex reflector…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent

Another picture from Dubai Mall, this time of a diver on a wall of water.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

Over at my other place, I’ve written about Leonard Cohen and this challenge seemed like a good opportunity to use this image of an impending rainstorm as an alternative cover for his first album. If you’re at all familiar with his work – especially the early years – you’ll know what I mean.