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
Mundane? The Watchman’s Hut
Posted on December 5, 2016
Another entry for Mundane Mondays hosted by PhoTrablogger. I took this photograph a few years ago in Abu Dhabi. At the entrancee to a building site on one of the back roads close to where we lived, this otherwise nondescript hut had been cobbled together from odd pieces of plywood and corrugated iron. They obviously didn’t do Portakabins.
Mundane Monday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relax
Posted on December 5, 2016
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