Macro Moments: Week 34 – Bobbin Winder
Posted on March 15, 2017
This week, another close-up of part of the mechanism of our vintage Singer sewing machine. This is a detail of the bobbin winder. It looks to be in pretty good shape for something that’s exactly a hundred years old this year.
Macro Moments Week 34
Tuesdays of Texture: Pineapple
Posted on March 14, 2017
This is what I believe is known in common parlance as the rough end of a pineapple:
Mundane? Or should that be mundrain?
Posted on March 13, 2017
I spotted this ornate water spout and drain cover in the old part of the small French port of Honfleur:
Mundane Mondays #100
C is for Ceiling
Posted on March 10, 2017
The fresco on the ceiling of the Collègiale church in St Junien is very faded, so you’re not missing much by seeing it only in monochrome:
Thursday Doors: Confolens (2)
Posted on March 9, 2017
As promised last week, another instalment of doors from Confolens, this time featuring ones that have had at least some care and attention within living memory.
Starting with these white ones:
Bonus points for a door within a door?
This one, with the attractive ironwork, is the former residence of a local physician:
A closer look at the plaque above the door (no need for a translation) suggests that he was a good man:
This house is unoccupied, although doesn’t seem to have been for too long:
Next week, how about some gates for a change?
Thursday Doors 9 March 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wish
Posted on March 9, 2017
“And you: what’s your dream?”
This graffito was spotted on a wall in the city of Limoges.
Tuesdays of Texture: Coin
Posted on March 7, 2017
On a wet afternoon last week I was roaming the house with my macro lens and got this close-up image, which revealed the interesting texture of the central inset.
We must have picked up this Jordanian half-dinar coin when we visited Petra, almost five years ago.
Don’t get too excited: it’s worth about 70 US cents, or £0.65.
Tuesdays of Texture
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 30 – In The Distance
Posted on March 7, 2017
The Charente river, in western France, is lined with impressive chateaux, of which this is one of the prime examples:
Mundane? Webs
Posted on March 6, 2017
A sure sign that a building is unoccupied is to look for spiders’ webs. It doesn’t take long for the spiders to reclaim their territory, as in this window in the medieval back streets of Confolens. To judge from the old stickers, this particular place was last owned or run by a motor mechanic (although obviously not a medieval one).
Mundane Mondays
B is for Bear – and Bathroom
Posted on March 3, 2017
Looks like we’ll be going through the alphabet over the next few months with Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. Naturally enough, we start with A or B, so as a special introductory offer here are two Bs for the price of one.
I freely admit that it was a little unsettling the first time I went into this bathroom at a hotel in Paris to be confronted by a Polar Bear. Fortunately, it was only an image on the door of the shower cubicle and I should have been forewarned because I’d already seen one on the wall over the bed.
And that’s really weird.
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