Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Posted on November 16, 2013
Here is another picture from Petra, showing the sandstone layers from which the monuments were carved. You can find more in this other post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
Posted on November 5, 2013
Somehow the bird adds to the sense of menace created by the looming stonework.
Taken in Chauvigny, a fortified medieval town in the Vienne department of France.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
Posted on October 12, 2013
A long exposure , the turn of a zoom lens and there you are rushing headlong into infinity.
Wine, from start to finish
Posted on October 9, 2013
A recent day’s wine-tasting around Bordeaux provided an opportunity to see the whole process of wine-making, from beginning to end.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated
Posted on September 30, 2013
With ‘Vivid’ settings or Photoshop, of course it’s possible to saturate any picture. But isn’t it better when Nature does the job for you?
Natural saturation
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines To Patterns
Posted on September 21, 2013
It’s often hard to say where lines become patterns. One answer could be ‘hotels’. The images in this post all feature hotels in either Abu Dhabi or Dubai.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Posted on September 16, 2013
There are cogent arguments both for and against zoos. But this picture, taken a few years ago, doesn’t do the pro lobby any favours.
Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV
Posted on September 8, 2013
This week’s Photo Challenge looks for an unusual point of view.
Our grandsons were blowing bubbles in our garden and one of them captured this image of the back of our house. It reminds me vaguely of some seventies prog-rock album cover.
Living In A Bubble
Surreal sandstone
Posted on August 31, 2013
I memorably spent my 60th birthday (last year) in Petra, thereby realising a lifelong ambition. I have all the standard touristy shots to prove it, and the overall experience more than lived up to my hopes and expectations.
However, while wandering around the ruins over the two days we spent there, I was especially struck by some of the rock formations. So, rather than bore you with the usual postcard pics, here are some of the almost surreal images I saw in the sandstone.
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