Tuesdays of Texture: Shoddy workmanship
Posted on January 31, 2017
After last week’s illustration of the high craft of the stonemason, here is a much shoddier example of building work, from a bricked-up doorway in the town of St. Junien.
Tuesdays of Texture
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 25 – Textures
Posted on January 30, 2017
Textures of wood, stone and metal on this disused well-head in the medieval centre of the town of Loches.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 52 – Textures
Mundane? Postbox
Posted on January 30, 2017
A weatherbeaten postbox just outside the Tourist Information Office in the town of St Junien, in the Haute-Vienne département of France.
Mundane Monday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Repurpose
Posted on January 28, 2017
So, you take some gaffer tape and two bags that once contained potting compost, put them together and you have a pair of Beats for an alpaca.
Either that, or something to restrain the beast while it’s being shorn. Yes, that would probably be it.
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.
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