At least the flowers are bio-degradable
Posted on November 4, 2016
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge for this week is ‘Things Made Out Of Plastic’.
This rather poignant image of some dead flowers dumped into a plastic bin-bag was taken during a walk to the next hamlet.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Made Out Of Plastic
Thursday Doors: St Andrews
Posted on November 3, 2016
In a previous existence, we lived in Scotland for twenty years and it’s always good to return, as we did recently for a week’s holiday.
One of our favourite places is St Andrews – home of golf and also Scotland’s oldest University (established between 1410 and 1413) . We know it pretty well – not least because our daughter went to school there – but never tire of it. This is one of the gates to her alma mater, St Leonard’s:
The town centre is very compact and there are plenty of solid old stone buildings to admire – together with their characterful doors:
Some of the architecture is not only old but comparatively unusual, like this stone porch:
Not so unusual, but still attractive is this old half-spiral staircase:
The overall impression is one of solidity:
More from St Andrews next week.
Thursday Doors 3 November 2016
Macro Moments Week 17: Berries
Posted on November 2, 2016
Early morning raindrops add interest to this bunch of bright red berries.
D800 with 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/90 at f4, ISO 140. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
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).
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