Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame
Posted on August 27, 2016
Two frames for the price of one in this photograph, taken from the entrance of one of the tombs at Petra, looking through an archway to the rows of seats in the theatre beyond.
Monochrome Mistletoe
Posted on August 26, 2016
The subject for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Trees. Here’s an image of some mistletoe-laden oak trees in a nearby lane. Tilting the camera so that the trees appear diagonally adds a little drama to the image, I think.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Trees
52 Weeks Photography Challenge: Week 3 – Self-Portrait
Posted on August 25, 2016
Week 3 of the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge being hosted by thegirlthatdreamsawake calls for a self-portrait.
Oh. This is not a topic I care for. At all.
In fact, I find it hard to think of anything worse, or anything I’m less interested in as a photographer. And don’t even get me started on selfie sticks, which I’ve railed against elsewhere.
However, since I like to see things through once I’ve started them, I’ll go along with it and hope for better things in Week 4.
So, courtesy of Apple’s Photo Booth app, here’s something:
Nothing to see here: move on.
Thursday Doors: Thiers – doors without number
Posted on August 25, 2016
Thiers is a major town in the Auvergne region of France. It has a well-preserved medieval centre and is widely known as the nation’s knife capital. I mean that in a good way: it is the centre of the knife (and, more broadly, the cutlery) industry. Just like it says here:
As I discovered on a recent visit, it is also quite possibly the French motherlode for interesting doors, both ancient and modern. In fact, I spotted so many irresistible portals that I’ve had to split them into three posts for sharing here; so, odd numbers, even numbers and, this week, neither. Doors without number indeed.
I particularly like the pastel tones and composition of this one (plus it’s an unusual doorway):
Just for a change, a pair of cellar doors; haven’t seen any of these for quite a few years:
There’s even a door where another door used to be:
Thursday Doors 25 August 2016
Tuesdays of Texture: Paper
Posted on August 24, 2016
The Moulin du Gôt is an historic working paper-mill near St Leonard de Noblat, in the Limousin region. Paper is still made there using traditional methods and from some unusual primary materials – not just wood and linen, but various vegetal matter (leeks, for example). Some of the papers they produce are used to make lampshades with fascinating textures:
Macro Moments: Week 10
Posted on August 24, 2016
For this week’s open macro challenge, I’ve chosen a photograph I took last Monday evening at a spéctacle of birds of prey, which took place in the ruins of the medieval castle at Saint-Germain-de-Confolens, a very pretty village about twenty minutes drive from here.. The very strong sunlight helped to produce strong contrast and some interesting backlit effects, as in the case of this owl.
NikonD800 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens at 200mm. 1/500sec. ISO100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom. Image resized in Photoshop
Macro Moments: Week 10
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
Posted on August 20, 2016
In the desert outside Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, anything green is a rare commodity.
Thursday Doors: Mortemart
Posted on August 18, 2016
Mortemart, about a twenty-minute drive from here at Tranquility Base, is listed as being among the most beautiful villages in France, according to the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France. It’s all a matter of individual taste, of course, and personally I don’t think it’s a patch on Montrol-Sénard, which is another five minutes up the road and has made many appearances on this blog, and not just on the theme of doors.
However, it does have a few interesting doors, including this one, my particular favourite. Who can resist a ‘two-tone’ example that also boasts a ‘door within a door’?
or a long disused one like this:
Or even this more prosaic example:
Thursday Doors 18 August 2016
Macro Moments: Week 9
Posted on August 18, 2016
This week, Sue at Musin’ with Susan, as her latest Macro Moments Challenge, asked for an image of an inanimate object. Here are the heads of three safety matches. This was taken as part of an assignment on a weekend Macro photography course I took just after I became the proud owner of my Macro lens.
As you can probably tell by looking at the metadata below the image, I was still struggling to get to grips with it. Plus ça change.
NikonD300. Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro lens. 2 secs at f36; ISO200. Edited in Lightroom
And yes, I did use a tripod.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 2 – Food
Posted on August 17, 2016
This year we are inundated with blackberries and there are plenty more to come. These may not be quite at the ‘food’ stage yet, but they soon will be:
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