Tuesdays of Texture: Firepit
Posted on November 2, 2016
We’ve just spent a week in a holiday cottage in the still largely rural East Lothian region of Scotland. Although the weather wasn’t good enough (October? Scotland? I don’t think so) for us to use it, this firepit/barbecue area certainly offered a whole range of textures.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 13 – Face
Posted on November 1, 2016
Hard to believe that we’re now a quarter of the way through the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge (I think you’ll find that last week’s ‘Street’ was – correctly – tagged as Week 12) hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake.
This week’s subject is ‘Face’, and who doesn’t have lots of images to choose from to respond to that?
Taken a few years ago, this is one of my grandsons sufficiently intrigued by the camera pointing at him to pause briefly from splashing around in his Pirate Boat paddling pool to stare right down the lens, just like a pro.
Thursday Doors: Gargilesse (encore)
Posted on October 27, 2016
More doors from the picturesque village of Gargilesse this week. If there is a common thread to this batch, it’s that all these doors, rather than being pictured in isolation, as it were, are shown in the context of the houses to which they belong.
I’m intrigued as to why the plate on the right hand gatepost of this house reads “Old Fashion Jazz Band”:
I’m also intrigued as to the significance of the cut-out letter ‘M’ in this upper-story door. It can’t be the obvious, because that would be ‘H’ for hommes.
This building used to be a pottery, which probably explains the substantial artefact in front of the door:
Not exactly disabled access, this one:
or this:
Thursday Doors 27 October 2016
Macro Moments: Week 16
Posted on October 26, 2016
Earlier this year, a grasshopper strayed through our open door and before we released it back into the wild I took the opportunity to reel off a few pictures as it explored its temporary accomodation in an upturned glass.
Macro Moments: Week 16
Tuesdays of Texture: Mosaic
Posted on October 25, 2016
At first glance, this wall in Venice looks to be covered in graffiti. However, a closer look reveals that what we actually have here are mosaics:
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 12 – Street
Posted on October 24, 2016
Week 12 of the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake has the topic of ‘Street’.
The genre of ‘street photography’ isn’t really my thing. However, this is probably my favourite street view: the road that runs through our hamlet of ‘Tranquility Base’. In the rush hour.
(Confession time: I’ve used this image before, in a post on my other site. Although, to judge from the stats, you won’t have seen it.)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Shine
Posted on October 23, 2016
Plenty of sunshine reflecting off the lovingly polished chrome of Terry’s Triumph (includes free image of photographer at work).
Toadstool or Mushroom?
Posted on October 21, 2016
For the latest iteration of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – It’s All About Nature – I’ve chosen this toadstool (or is it a mushroom?) that I found growing by the side of the road near Chansigaud. In real life, it’s a creamy colour, but the monochrome brings out the texture (note especially the jagged edges) very well, I think.
Thursday Doors: Gargilesse
Posted on October 20, 2016
Not far from Nohant (assuming that your coach driver doesn’t get lost, like ours did – and not for the first time that day) is the picturesque village of Gargilesse, where George Sand had a smaller house, which was subsequently home to her daughter and husband for many years.
As well as a medieval church – of which this is the side door – with a remarkably frescoed crypt, the village also has a fair few, more interesting, doors.
There are doors in there somewhere, trust me:
These are rather easier to see. The first one is my favourite of this batch:
More from Gargilesse next week.
Thursday Doors 20 October 2016
Macro Moments Week 15: Thistle
Posted on October 19, 2016
‘Fall’ (which is to say ‘autumn’) is the theme for Musin’ with Susan’s Macro Moments Challenge this week.
It’s certainly getting to that time of year when the seedheads have done their work, as on this thistle in our garden (where it obviously has no right to be…)
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