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:
Tuesdays of Texture: Statuary
Posted on August 16, 2016
A fortuitous angle of light source helps to bring out the textures of these statuettes, which are located up on a wall of a side chapel in the cathedral of Limoges:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun
Posted on August 13, 2016
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 1 – Black & White
Posted on August 12, 2016
The Girl That Dreams Awake is hosting a brand new weekly challenge which I thought I’d try and play along with.
I’m intrigued to see what topics lie ahead for future weeks, but for Week 1 it’s Black & White, so here is another image of Terry’s Triumph to add to the ones that I posted recently in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:
Metropolitain
Posted on August 12, 2016
At a fête des fleurs in Magnac-Laval earlier this year, I couldn’t help noticing the shadow thrown by the back of this old chair, which presumably began life (quite a long time ago) somewhere on the Paris Metro. The weatherbeaten textures suit monochrome quite well.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any Seating, Including Tables and Chairs
Thursday Doors: Le Dorat
Posted on August 11, 2016
With a name like that, this town about thirtty minutes drive from here is surely crying out to be included in Thursday Doors.
Le Dorat is probably best known for its medieval church: the Collegiale, whose stonework is mightily impressive:
…and not just on the outside:
There remain some other relics of earlier times, including a good section of fortified wall, as well as this impressive towered main gate:
Outside the old and very compact centre of the town, however, there are plenty of examples of more recent and typical rural architecture:
Thursday Doors 11 August 2016
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