Lens-Artists Challenge – This Made Me Smile
Posted on November 29, 2024
Lens-Artists Challenge: Gratitude
Posted on November 19, 2024
This week’s challenge is a bit of a toughie – as are most that whose title consists of an abstract noun.
Of course there is plenty for me to be grateful for – and I hope I am – but I was looking for a slightly different angle that doesn’t parade too much of my personal life.
Back in August, while on holiday in the UK, we went to a village cricket match in Yorkshire. There was nothing at stake apart from local pride, but I’m sure that the captain of the winning side expressed his gratitude to the person who handed him the trophy..
Monochrome madness: Leading lines
Posted on November 17, 2024
Leading lines – one of the most fundamental elements of photographic composition.
Rather than a conventional road disappearing into the distance or a wall ditto, I decided to approach this latest theme a little differently. This is an arrow slit that can be found in the fortified chateau of Guédelon, in central France;
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..
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