Tuesday Photo Challenge: Forces
Posted on March 6, 2018
This week, Frank at Dutch Goes The Photo! wants to see an image that shows ‘forces’.
Well, there are certainly powerful forces at work in this detail from a truly remarkable wall-hanging that can be found in the Cité International de la Tapisserie, in Aubusson.
Bottles
Posted on March 2, 2018
Cee’s challenge this week is to post an image of something – anything – that contains a double letter.
I spotted these old wine bottles standing on the floor next to a bed in the sleeping quarters at the restored Abbaye de la Reau.
Somehow, the post-processing produced an effect like a still life painting, which I find attractive.
Thursday Doors: Confolens – Finale (2)
Posted on March 1, 2018
And these really are the last shots of doors in Confolens that I have.
Finally, a rather different perspective. At what point did they finally realise that there was nobody home?
Thursday Doors 1 March 2018
Weekly Photo Challenge: Out of this world
Posted on March 1, 2018
In modern times, the power of religion is much diluted. However, it is important to remember that at one time the grandeur of great cathedrals – now often faded – was designed to impress a superstitious and almost certainly illiterate populace.
Both the architecture and the decor were intended to provide an idea of the glories of the life hereafter: literally out of this world.
Even now, the twin domes of the cathedral of Cahors can still impress even the most determinedly secular of observers.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Hills
Posted on February 27, 2018
Frank’s theme for the Tuesday Photo Challenge this week is ‘hills’. The automatic response to this would be to post a landscape, I suppose. However, here’s a little hill (one of many) in the centre of the town of Sarlat in the Dordogne that just makes you want to climb it – even if it’s only as far as that Pizzeria.
The old staircase
Posted on February 23, 2018
This ancient and very worn staircase can be found on the Pont Valentre in the town of Cahors, in southern France.
Amazingly, worn as it is and with no handrail, it is not roped off in any way to prevent public access. It would take a brave or foolhardy soul to climb it, though, however impressive the views over the River Lot might be from the top.
Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face In The Crowd
Posted on February 22, 2018
This anonymous dog-walker, lost in his own thoughts but with his faithful pet loyally tagging along, may not even have noticed the exceptionally blue sea on a perfect autumn day at St Andrews harbour – nor all the other people with their dogs that surrounded him: at a respectful, privacy-preserving, distance, of course.
Thursday Doors: Confolens – Finale (1)
Posted on February 22, 2018
Just as I was getting worried that my supply of doors was nearing exhaustion (and then what will I do on Thursdays?), I came across some overlooked doors from – you guessed it – Confolens. Enough for this week and next, by when I hope to have topped up my supplies from other locations.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the bottom of this particular barrel, all of which were taken at the town’s highest point, within the medieval fortifications, from where you can look over the whole metropolis.
QED:
The next two examples are set into the old walls:
While this is in a restored building just inside the main gate:
Finally, a couple of splendidly tatty doors of considerable age:
Thursday Doors 22 February 2018
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Shape
Posted on February 21, 2018
I was intrigued by the unusual shapes of this piece of sculpture that I saw, rather improbably, in the Tapestry Museum in Aubusson.
Cold Wheels
Posted on February 16, 2018
Like much of France, it’s been cold and we’ve had some snow recently. As a result, these old cartwheels (and birdbath) that sit at the back of our house were looking pretty chilled last week – and not in a good way.
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