Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi
Posted on August 31, 2018
Last week in response to Cee’s Black & White theme of sculpture I posted an image of some statuary from the Basilica San Marco. This week’s topic is glass and here is another image from a religious edifice, in this case the mind-bogglingly beautiful Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Thursday Doors: Asnieres-sur-Blour (2)
Posted on August 30, 2018
Another set of doors from the nearby village of Asnières-sur-Blour.
This may be only a small door, but it has character to spare:

The next three images are all of the same building:



I suspect that this door doesn’t get much use:

Although these definitely do:

Thursday Doors 30 August 2018
Basilica San Marco, Venice
Posted on August 24, 2018
These carvings atop the Basilica San Marco in Venice are clearly not the originals, but there is plenty of intricate detail to appreciate, especially in monochrome:

Thursday Doors: Asnieres-sur-Blour
Posted on August 23, 2018
The village of Asnières-sur-Blour is yet another of those little rural communities that can be found within a fifteen-minute drive of Tranquility Base.
I was there last week, primarily to take photographs of old tractors (you can only envy me) for a project I’m working on currently. However, as so often happens, the doors proved a lot more interesting than the agricultural machinery, as we’ll see here over the next couple of weeks.
Just to confirm where we are:

Doors like these – on buildings used to accommodate farm animals – are a common local feature and similar ones have appeared here before:


Just across the road from those old things is a new house (well, the cladding at least is new) but with this older door in it:

It’s not always possible to get up close and personal with the doors you might want to capture for posterity, so finally for this week here are a couple of images snatched through a fence:


Thursday Doors 23 August 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Scene
Posted on August 21, 2018
This was the scene that would confront me when I stood at night on the balcony of our apartment in Abu Dhabi.
It’s a lot quieter here.
(For the aficionados: 1.6 seconds at ƒ11, ISO400)

Bridge over the Vienne at Chabanais
Posted on August 17, 2018
The ironwork of the main road bridge across the River Vienne in Chabanais is perfectly mirrored in the water on an exceptionally clear, still and sunny day.

Thursday Doors: Beverley (again)
Posted on August 16, 2018
After last week’s little tour of the village of Cherry Burton, we are back in the nearby market town of Beverley again for a few more interesting doors.
And none more interesting than this – North Bar, the last remaining of the medieval gates to the walled town. To give an idea of scale, you could easily step through that door within a door. Of course, they don’t close it at nights anymore. Just as well: the implications for traffic would be horrendous.

Just outside the North Bar there are a number of very grand old houses, with equally grand doors:


Thursday Doors 16 August 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Toys
Posted on August 14, 2018
My grandson picks out a tune (kind of…) on the new toy keyboard that he’s just got for Christmas.

Thursday Doors: Cherry Burton
Posted on August 9, 2018
Cherry Burton is a small village just outside Beverley, in East Yorkshire. My daughter and her family live there.
It’s far enough away from town to have something of a rural feel, although there are modern developments on either side of the road that runs through the centre of the village, where the oldest buildings, and most interesting doors, are to be found.
Any village with an ounce of self-respect needs a Village Hall:

The oldest residential buildings have a late Georgian/early Victorian feel to them:


Although there are some interesting exceptions:

And finally, for something completely different, here’s my son-in-law’s parents’ garden shed:

Thursday Doors 9 August 2018
The Street Where I Live
Posted on August 2, 2018
The irrepressible Fandango challenged us to post an image of the street we live on – and why not?
Strictly speaking, we don’t live on any street at all, as our house is set back about a hundred feet (on the left) from this major expressway, along which up to three tractors an hour have been known to pass, at speeds approaching 30 mph.
And yet I persist in referring to this place as Tranquility Base.





