Cellpic Sunday: Lift your gaze

I wonder how many busy and distracted travellers on the concourse of King’s Cross Station in London take the time to lift their gaze to admire the dramatic ceiling.

Cellpic Sunday 8 September 2024

Lens-Artists Challenge: Cabbages

What could be more mundane than a cabbage? Even a red one?

These red cabbages, cut into halves or quarters, were on sale at the Saturday market in the city of Perigueux. Opened up like this, it’s possible to appreciate the complex layering of the leaves.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Common Object

Reach for the sky

Another dramatic image of the ceiling of Beverley Minster.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns & Vertical Lines

Just Another Broken Heart…

Well, a fallen rose petal anyway.

(a late submission for Bushboy’s Last On The Card challenge)

Last on the card August 2024

Dizzying

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week calls for images of squares and/or rectangles.

This trompe l’oeil image is, in fact, a section of a tiled floor in Beverley Minster. The 3D effect is quite something.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: squares or rectangles

Lens-Artists Challenge: Cool colours

This is a detail of a variety of golden fern – or so the internet tells me. That’s definitely a cool shade of green, though.

(Sorry, but I cannot bring myself to spell ‘colour’ without the ‘u’.)

Lens-Artists Challenge: cool colours

Cellpic Sunday: Dullsville

Well at least they’re honest folk in Beverley…

Cellpic Sunday 25 August 2024

Monochrome Madness: At the beach

Not all dogs are afraid of water. This pooch is frolicking very happily at the beach of Watson’s Bay, near Sydney.

Monochrome Madness: At the beach

From the shadows

Great to see that Cee is feeling well enough to resurrect some of her challenges – they’ve been greatly missed. More importantly, so has Cee herself: welcome back.

This is a flower we’ve had growing in one of our raised beds for a long time. I was particularly attracted by the long shadows, which give some extra depth to the image.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: A single flower

Lens-Artists Challenge: sense of scale

The Minster dominates the skyline of the Yorkshire town of Beverley. It’s not a cathedral – although I’ve been in smaller churches that are counted as such. However it is, apparently, the largest parish church in England. I’m not surprised.

The vaulted ceiling of the nave reaches 65 feet above floor level (the nave itself is over 170 feet long). I think this image conveys a sense of the scale of the building. I captured it by dint of setting the timer on my iPhone, (using the Snap Pro app), placing it on the floor and beating a hasty retreat to get out of shot.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Sense of scale