Tuesday Photo Challenge: Decay
Posted on January 30, 2018
For Frank’s theme for this week of ‘decay’, here is an image of part of the heavily-weathered inscription on a gravestone to be found in the old burial ground opposite St Mary’s church in Beverley, Yorkshire.
Time and the elements have worn down the lettering into something almost abstract, although it is still possible to make out some of the wording.
The staircase
Posted on January 26, 2018
While visiting the restored medieval abbey of Noirlac last year, I was struck by this almost abstract composition of a curving staircase and austere stone walls. Another homage to M C Escher and suitable for Cee’s Black & White subject of ‘Walls’ this week.
Thursday Doors: Bordeaux (3)
Posted on January 25, 2018
This week, a final selection of doors from Bordeaux. After a surfeit of blue doors in Week 1, I managed to avoid that colour completely last week, but there’s just too many (both absolutely and proportionately) to abstain for a third week, so here are some more (open) blue doors:
I promise that this is absolutely the last blue door in this selection:
See, here’s a green(ish) one:
And this one is nowhere near blue:
Some might argue, not without justification, that this isn’t even a door. It’s certainly an entrance though: to a car park. There are doors: it’s just that you can’t see them.
Thursday Doors 25 January 2018
Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations
Posted on January 25, 2018
This display of rockery plants at the annual flower show in nearby Magnac-Laval shows not only a variety of species but also reveals that each individual plant is subtly different from all the others.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Old
Posted on January 23, 2018
This week, Frank at Dutch Goes The Photo! has returned to the theme of ‘Old’.
As this year is, of course, the centenary of the end of World War I, this image seems appropriate. It is a French Army helmet of the period, now housed in the Museum at the Chateau des Ducs in Nantes.
Hot Dinners
Posted on January 19, 2018
In the schoolroom of the living museum of rural life at nearby Montrol-Sénard you can still see these cooking pots, in which the pupils would bring their lunches from home, sitting them on top of the stove to keep warm.
Thursday Doors: Bordeaux (2)
Posted on January 18, 2018
More doors from the Quai Louis XVIII in Bordeaux – and this week not a blue one to be seen.
Although green is quite popular too:
This restaurant was a little bit different, but still had the typical arch over the door, nicely echoed in the window:
Rather tattier, but conforming to the general pattern:
But this one is a bit of a mould-breaker:
As is this discreet example:
But here is this week’s favourite:
Thursday Doors 18 January 2018
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
Posted on January 18, 2018
This weathered sign can be found in the nearby open-air memorial of Oradour-sur Glane, a village where over 600 inhabitants – mostly women and children – were massacred by German troops in June 1944.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Delicious
Posted on January 16, 2018
The freshly-caught sea bass on display at the Rialto fish market in Venice looked absolutely delicious.
Roman right-angle
Posted on January 12, 2018
At the Roman site of Cassinomagus, archaeologists have excavated the steps that surrounded and led down to the fountain or spring that would have provided the settlement with most of its fresh water. This is a detail of one corner.
Top Posts & Pages
theonlyD800inthehameau 