Lens-Artists Challenge: In the details
Posted on November 11, 2024
This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge is a slightly unusual but very interesting one. We are asked to provide three images of a subject, showing progressively more detail.
To begin with, here is a conventional shot of the huge neo-gothic cathedral of Albi. It is massive: the walls are about twenty feet thick at the base. Begun in the 15th century, is is still the largest brick-built edifice in the world.
The main door is on the left, through the portico which is just visible in the bottom corner of the above image. Closer to, it looks like this:
That’s impressive enough in itself, with the human figures conveying an idea of the scale, but when you get to the actual doorway itself, you find it surmounted by this amazingly complex stonework.
(It occurs to me that it would be perfectly possible to continue the process of increasing detail by zooming in to some of that elaborate carving, like an almost endless set of Russian dolls.)
Cellpic Sunday: On a country walk
Posted on November 10, 2024
A walk along a country lane yesterday yielded this spectacular cloudscape.
Lens-Artists Challenge – Silence
Posted on November 4, 2024
This week’s theme of ‘silnce’ is an interesting one: how to convey the idea of silence through an image.
It seemed to me that silence could be conflated with tranquility and restfulness, and somehow that led me to this image of part of the foreshore in the fishing village of Pittenweem on the east coast of Scotland. With all potential distractions cropped away, it feels quite meditative – almost like a Zen garden.
Leading lines, anyone?
Posted on November 3, 2024
A little 30-minute constitutional last Friday morning led us down a narrow and rarely used country road with pastureland on each side.. The low autumn sun cast long shadows and the tractor tyre tracks at the entrance to this field produced enough leading lines to make anybody happy.
Monochrome Madness: The Demon Drink
Posted on October 30, 2024
Lens-Artists: There is a crack in everything
Posted on October 29, 2024
Look at this abandoned house on the main street of the nearby village of Rancon: the paintwork is cracked, the glass is cracked, the plaster is cracked, the wall itself is cracked…
Cellpic Sunday: Late bloomer
Posted on October 28, 2024
It’s been warmer than usual so far this autumn, which may explain why, even at the end of October, some flowers are blooming and clearly still have more to offer..
Lens-Artists Challenge: Intentional Motion
Posted on October 22, 2024
It’s almost counter-intuitive to move your camera intentionally when taking a photograph, but the effect can be quite arresting.
When I got my first proper DSLR we were living in an apartment in the centre of Abu Dhabi city. I took a couple of photography courses and this is the result of one of the exercises that was set.
With the camera on a tripod sitting on the apartment’s terrace, I aimed it at the night view, which was of a busy road with high rise buildings at the far end.. The effect was achieved with a long(ish) exposure, during which I slowly rotated the zoom lens. Weird.
Cellpic Sunday: My first espresso martini
Posted on October 21, 2024
I don’t often drink cocktails nowadays, but recently I tried an espresso martini for the first time. I don’t think it’ll be the last.
Monochrome Madness: Sidestep
Posted on October 19, 2024
Sometimes it’s necessary to look from a different angle at something mundane in order to find an interesting image. Last week I posted a very mundane image of the side wall of a multi-story car park. Its one redeeming feature was a partially visible spiral fire-escape.
For Monochrome Madness this week, where the topic is ‘Steps or stairs’, I cropped out all the mundanity and flipped the steps through 90 degrees to produce what I think is a far more arresting photo.
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