Cellpic Sunday: All The Angles
Posted on February 2, 2025
This is our local ‘salle polyvalente’ – in effect, the village hall. It’s where it ‘all’ (such as it is) happens: long lunches, aerobic classes, meetings, exhibitions – you name it.
It’s obviously a comparatively modern construct and utilitarian by design. Yet it was only last week that it struck me, while we were making our regular Sunday pilgrimage to the recycling point, how angular and geometric it is.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Complementary Colours
Posted on January 27, 2025
I’d like to think that I have a reasonable grasp of the theory behind complementary colours. The problem is that the world doesn’t necessarily adhere to the principle and often seems quite happy to juxtapose any old clashing shades with nary a thought about the aesthetics of the matter.
Orange and blue are certainly complementary, and when the setting sun hits the underside of clouds, the vibrant orange glow it can produce sits very well against the still-blue sky. Crop out any earthbound distractions and you could get yourself a bit of abstract art.
Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it…
Cellpic Sunday: Rusty Shutter
Posted on January 27, 2025
A day late due to ‘production difficulties’ (sc. idleness and ineptitude on my part, plus my struggles with the new and ‘improved’ (ha!) WordPress UI.
Although the popular, almost romantic, image of French window shutters is pristine. brightly coloured and freshly painted volets, more prosaically they’re at least as likely to be metal and rusting. This one, on an abandoned house in the village of Rancon, is a particularly….er, ‘fine’ example.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Shoot from above
Posted on January 23, 2025
Sometimes (or should that be ‘many times and oft’?) these old bones either can’t or – more likely – can’t be bothered to hunker down and take an eye-level photo of something at or near ground level. That at least is my excuse for just snapping this flower from above. Its bright colours made it really stand out from its surroundings.
Lens-artists Challenge: Resilience
Posted on January 14, 2025
In the parched desert outside the city of Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, some hardy bushes can demonstrate the resilience to cling to life even in the harshest of conditions.
Cellpic Sunday: Poinsettia
Posted on January 12, 2025
With the festive season over, our poinsettia was starting to shed its leaves all over the floor, so it had to be expelled from the house. Its temporary new home is the back step, where it got very wet from the almost constant rain that fell last week.
Monochrome Madness: Places of Worship
Posted on January 10, 2025
This is a detail of the carving over the east door of the Collegiale in Le Dorat – a massive church, although neither abbey nor cathedral. The presence of the small statue – no doubt of a saint – and its contrast with the curves of the repeated arches adds interest to the image.
Cellpic Sunday: Incongruous Pink
Posted on January 5, 2025
The French countryside is pretty rugged, especially in the winter, and any signs of human habitation or exploitation are usually no more than utilitarian and predominantly in shades of brown or green.
Accordingly, it was a little unusual to find that this nearby farm gate was secured with a tie in two shades of pink.
Last On The Card December 2024
Posted on January 2, 2025
I took this photo as the sun set on New Year’s Eve. Darkness is falling on 2024 but high in the sky an aeroplane is heading south, to a hopefully brighter future.
Cellpic Sunday: Christmas Fayre
Posted on December 29, 2024
The ‘superette’ in our local village is pretty well stocked with fresh and prepared food, the more so at this time of yea. This is the display of some of their Christmas specials from this year, including such local….er, delicacies as veal sweetbread vol-au-vents and beef tongue in sauce.
We’re French, but not that French, so we stuck to roast beef…
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