Weekly Photo Challenge: All-Time Favo(u)rites
Posted on May 31, 2018
Although there are plenty of other photo challenges out there, generously hosted by individual bloggers, the end of the WordPress Weekly Challenge – for reasons best known to themselves and, I suspect, a mystery to most of the rest of us – does feel like the end of an era.
For this final instalment, we’ve been invited to share our all-time favourites (I cannot bring myself to omit the ‘u’ that actually belongs there).
It’s hard to choose, though. The most-liked – by others – of my images are displayed on the home page of this blog in any case.
However, my very first post on this blog, back in August 2013, was a response to a WordPress Weekly Challenge. This is another edit of that image:
Surely, though, while retrospection has its place it’s better to look forward, so I’ll leave you – in terms of this challenge, at any rate – with another flower, but one with it’s – albeit brief – life ahead of it. The picture was taken just a couple of weeks ago.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Height
Posted on May 29, 2018
The medieval Abbaye de la Reau has been extensively renovated in recent years. It has to be said, though, that not much has been done to the 15th-century Tour de Défense (built after the original Abbaye was burnt down by the English: so a bit late then) whose roof collapsed long ago.
The Tour actually isn’t a particularly tall structure (just two stories), although the sense of height is – well, heightened – when you point a camera straight up at the sky.
Wild Flower Monochrome
Posted on May 25, 2018
It’s that time again…
Cee’s Black & White Challenge Theme this week is ‘flowers’, so here is an example from a mix of bee-friendly wild flowers that we sowed last year in one of our raised beds. In real life, it was an attractive shade of magenta, but the monochrome highlights the textures.
Thursday Doors: Encore Cahors (4)
Posted on May 24, 2018
The waiting is over….here’s another selection of the doors of Cahors, beginning with two gloriously tatty sets of double doors:
And another, in rather better condition (includes free reflection of author: you’re welcome).
And some single doors, in various stages of neglect:
More next week, then we’ll break off for a new destination.
Thursday Doors 24 May 2018
Weekly Photo Challenge: Twisted
Posted on May 24, 2018
The rope twisted into a knot leads the eye in to this detail of a wooden dhow that I spotted in the Bateen area of Abu Dhabi city. The traditional boat is contrasted with the modern office blocks in the background.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Ring
Posted on May 22, 2018
Frank’s theme for this week is ‘Ring’.
I’m glad about that, because I’ve been waiting a long time to post this – one of the oldest images in my digital photo library. It shows the weir on the River Avon as it flows through the city of Bath, in south-west England and I was attracted by the unusual design of concentric circles.
I suppose you could say that it’s a ring from around (the) Bath [drops microphone, exits stage left]
Clock Watching
Posted on May 18, 2018
For this week’s Black & White Photo Challenge, Cee has asked for an image of anything that ends in ‘ock’.
I do have a picture of the large black rooster from the farm just up the road, but making the post title fit the brief and at the same time observe propriety was too problematic.
Instead, here is an entirely respectable photograph taken from inside the clock tower of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. If you’re wondering why a museum should have a clock tower, in this case it’s because the building used to be a railway station.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Something ending in ‘ock’
Thursday Doors: Eglise de St Pierre, Limoges
Posted on May 17, 2018
Now, I know you’re all desperate for another set of doors from Cahors – and you will get them soon. However, if only to heighten that delicious sense of anticipation, this week a one-off set of images from the church of St Pierre in the city of Limoges.
I came across this serendipitously, on our way to a quilting and photography exhibition in a building on the opposite side of the eponymous Place, but I thought it was worth pulling out my old iPhone and capturing this set of freshly-painted church doors:
Back to Cahors next week. Maybe.
Thursday Doors 17 May 2018
Weekly Photo Challenge: Liquid
Posted on May 16, 2018
With an exposure of only 1/2000 of a second, this detail of a water feature in Sydney hardly looks liquid at all.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Shine
Posted on May 15, 2018
A few years ago, we happened to be in the Place Collégiale, in the town of Le Dorat, just as workmen were starting to mark out some parking bays with a lot of these metal discs. As they were brand new, they had a terrific shine on them, producing some very interesting reflections of the surrounding buildings.
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