Cellpic Sunday: Lift your gaze
Posted on September 8, 2024
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.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Cabbages
Posted on September 8, 2024
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.

Reach for the sky
Posted on September 7, 2024
Another dramatic image of the ceiling of Beverley Minster.

Just Another Broken Heart…
Posted on September 6, 2024
Well, a fallen rose petal anyway.
(a late submission for Bushboy’s Last On The Card challenge)

Dizzying
Posted on August 28, 2024
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.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Cool colours
Posted on August 27, 2024
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
Posted on August 25, 2024
Monochrome Madness: At the beach
Posted on August 21, 2024
Not all dogs are afraid of water. This pooch is frolicking very happily at the beach of Watson’s Bay, near Sydney.

From the shadows
Posted on August 21, 2024
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.

Lens-Artists Challenge: sense of scale
Posted on August 19, 2024
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.






