Holding Up
Posted on January 27, 2017
Regular visitors to this blog may already know that our house was a major renovation project – which is why its working title is ‘Brokedown Palace’.
The first job our builders had to do was to stop the front wall from falling off. Eventually they worked their way round to the back, where they just had to stop it falling down.
Fortunately, they managed that too:
Thursday Doors: Thiers (4th Time Around)
Posted on January 26, 2017
I know we’ve already had three helpings of doors from Thiers but that particular seam hasn’t been fully worked out just yet, so here are a few second round draft picks.
And I didn’t even follow this road down the hill…
Thursday Doors 26 January 2017
Macro Moments: Week 28 – Snails
Posted on January 25, 2017
Three baby snails carefully collected onto a single leaf by my grandsons:
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/500 at ƒ8, ISO 400. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Tuesdays of Texture: Look Up
Posted on January 24, 2017
Take a moment to look up as you enter St Mary’s church in Beverley and you’ll see some intricate carving – as well as some pretty scary faces.
Tuesdays of Texture
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 24 – Light
Posted on January 24, 2017
This week the challenge is to provide an image using light (wouldn’t be much of an image without it, I have to say) but not sunlight.
This photograph was taken from a boat making an evening cruise along the Corniche in Abu Dhabi, just before we left there and moved to France. It was well after sunset, so all the light is man-made.
I used to work on the 23rd Floor of the left hand tower of the featured building. My office had a glass exterior wall, so the view was quite spectacular.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 24 – Light
Mundane? Shop Window
Posted on January 23, 2017
A butcher’s window display that I spotted in one of the narrow streets of the San Polo neighbourhood of Venice. The big hand-written sign ‘Oggi c’e il capretto’ means ‘Today we have kid [as in kid goat]’ and there it is, hanging right in the middle.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
Posted on January 21, 2017
The symmetrical curves of the arches in this cloister of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi are the epitome of ‘graceful’.
‘The Bus Came By..’
Posted on January 20, 2017
To be perfectly honest, as a general rule I don’t find ‘public transport’ a particularly interesting subject for photography. However, as this subject has come round again in Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge it gives me an opportunity to post this picture, taken in downtown Sydney.
As an image, I admit it doesn’t really have much to offer, but if you happen to be a Deadhead it raises a smile, assuming that you are familiar with the lyrics of the Grateful Dead’s second-set improvisational vehicle (sic), ‘The Other One’:
Escapin’ through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That’s when it all began
Thursday Doors: Burano
Posted on January 19, 2017
Things have stayed pretty local as regards Thursday Doors over the past few weeks, so just for a change, somewhere a little more exotic – and colourful – this time.
There are two principal islands in the Venetian Lagoon: Murano, which is famous for its glass-making and Burano, something of an artists’ hangout and probably best known for its brightly-painted houses.
which of course means colourful door surrounds, even on the more decrepit examples:
Albeit that there’s a reassuring drabness about this example:
Although this must be the hands-down winner – Charlie Chaplin and all:
Thursday Doors 19 January 2017
Macro Moments: Week 27 – Caterpillar
Posted on January 18, 2017
We spotted this exotic-looking caterpillar in our room at the hotel on the nature reserve of Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
Macro Moments Week 27
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