Rosebud
Posted on June 23, 2016
Usually, the point about flowers is the colour, but this monochrome image of a rosebud (taken at Chédigny) highlights the intricately furled petals.
Thursday Doors: Chaniers
Posted on June 23, 2016
Just outside the town of Chaniers, in the Charente region, is a distillery where they make Pineau Charentes (a fortified wine: a sort of French equivalent of sherry and very delicious) housed in a 16th century chateau. I particularly liked the irony of this very old, weatherbeaten and characterful door, with multiple bolts, locks and latches, being situated next to an open gate that you could, quite literally, drive a bus through.
And here’s another redundant door a little further along the same wall:
Thursday Doors 23 June 2016
Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 30 – After
Posted on June 22, 2016
After a hard day’s playing, what could be better than to snuggle under the quilts that grandma made and take a snooze?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve
Posted on June 18, 2016
The dramatic curve of the entrance to the Manarat Al Saadiyat exhibition centre on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi seems like a suitable entry for this week’s Photo Challenge.
Playing in cars
Posted on June 17, 2016
What tw0 year-old wouldn’t enjoy playing in a proper grown-up car? Under supervision, of course.
Thursday Doors: Port d’Enveaux
Posted on June 16, 2016
The only way to see this colourful door and shutters is to be cruising down the Charente river near Port d’Enveaux. Which, as it happens, I was last week.
Hence the two slightly different angles as we sailed sedately past:
It doesn’t look like it gets used much currently, but whoever painted it obviously knew their way around the colour wheel.
Thursday Doors 16 June 2016
Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 29 – Open
Posted on June 15, 2016
This open book, suspended in mid-air, was part of an artistic installation in the Visitor Centre at the Oradour-sur-Glane memorial. If books survive, and they can still be opened, then perhaps there is some hope in that.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure
Posted on June 11, 2016
Earlier this week, a moment of pure tranquility on the banks of the Charente river at Chaniers:
Steps in sepia
Posted on June 10, 2016
Sepia seems to me to work better than conventional black & white in these pictures: the first of an old set of steps leading up to a cobbled square in the town of Saint-Emilion in the Bordeaux region:
and this from Montrol-Sénard:
Thursday Doors: Loches
Posted on June 9, 2016
The town of Loches, in central France (not far from Chédigny) was, in medieval times, the seat of the kings of France and there are many interesting – some long-neglected – doors in and around the old citadel that dominates the moderrn townscape.
At the base of the citadel is this door, that obviously hasn’t been used in a very long time:
And nor has this one, which comes from a time when disabled access was not something anyone thought about:
For sumptuousness of decor, though, the main door of the Collégiale church is impressive:
Thursday Doors 9 June 2016
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