Thursday Doors: Honfleur
Posted on December 15, 2016
Honfleur is a small port in north-west France, at the mouth of the Seine. Now dwarfed by its neighbour Le Havre, back in the Middle Ages it was a key European trading entrepôt.
We made a detour on our route back from Zeebrugge to home to have a look. Unfortunately, it was the middle of a long bank holiday weekend so, despite it being the end of October, the harbour area was very crowded.
In the back streets, though, and more specifically in the rather menacingly named Rue de la Prison, I came across some interesting old doors, the first one with a highly topical question posed outside:
And finally, with a welcome splash of colour:
Thursday Doors 15 December 2016
Macro Moments: Week 22 – Poppy
Posted on December 14, 2016
I didn’t even notice the wasp until I’d downloaded this close-up image of a poppy onto my desk-top:
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 48mm. 1/125 at f8, ISO 100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments Week 22
Tuesdays of Texture: Weathered Sandstone
Posted on December 13, 2016
This piece of sandstone down by Circular Quay in Sydney is not only a lovely colour but has also weathered very attractively.
Tuesdays of Texture Week 51
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 19 – View
Posted on December 13, 2016
Have I got views for you. So many to choose from, but here’s a view – taken on a lovely calm, sunny day at the end of October this year – of the harbour at St Andrews in Scotland:
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 19 – View
Mundane? Bus Stop
Posted on December 12, 2016
This bus stop was actually adjacent to the watchman’s hut that I featured last week. It’s ‘just’ a bus stop, but I liked the symmetry, the angularity of the shadows and the warm glow of the morning sun through the plastic walls.
Weekly Photo Challenge: New Horizon
Posted on December 10, 2016
The first time we visited Muscat, in Oman, we went on a sunset cruise, so this was a new horizon for us at the time.
Treasure Chest
Posted on December 9, 2016
A few weeks ago, I was taking photographs of various items about the house as a response to a macro challenge hosted by Susan at Musion’ With Susan. The idea was to use a macro lens for non-macro subjects.
One of my chosen subjects was this highly decorated wooden chest that we bought while living in Abu Dhabi, and which now sits on top of one of our bookcases. The wood is black and the metalwork is silver (silver-coloured, that is), so it wasn’t a great stretch to edit it as a monochrome image.
It is definitely made by hand, so fits the brief for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Thursday Doors: Haddington Part 2
Posted on December 8, 2016
As foreshadowed last week, some of the shop and other commercial doors that can be found in the East Lothian market town of Haddington
This one’s hard to miss:
And I particularly like this door set into the corner of the building:
An old building that’s seen rather better days. I derive no reassurance whatsoever from the message on the door:
A rather more modern – although still dated – shopfront:
The local estate agencies don’t stint themselves when it comes to imposing doorways:
Thursday Doors 8 December 2016
Tuesdays of Texture: Abra
Posted on December 6, 2016
By far the best way to cross from one side of Dubai Creek to the other is on one of the little passenger boats called abras (think motorised gondolas). This one was tied up on the Deira side.
Tuesdays of Texture
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 18 – Freedom
Posted on December 5, 2016
This week’s theme of ‘Freedom’ is encapsulated, I think, in this image of my grandson on a zipline in the play area of the Beecraigs Country Park just outside Linlithgow in Scotland. He was happy to be doing it and I was happy that my attempt at a panning shot, blurring the background (a little), kind of worked.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 18 – Freedom
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