Leading Lines
Posted on November 2, 2015
Leading lines could well be the first basic tool of composition that I picked up on and have stuck with ever since – to the extent that in many cases the leading lines are the image. Anyway, I seem to have plenty of them, of which these are a few – and, hopefully, varied – examples.
And finally, in a shameless attempt to earn a gold star, two images of curved leading lines
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treat
Posted on October 31, 2015
I’m a lucky man in so many ways that every day is a treat – especially when a new dawn comes over the fields like this.
Walkway
Posted on October 29, 2015
For this week’s challenge, here’s another image from the Burjuman Centre in Dubai, showing a section of the walkway on the top floor. The starburst effect on the lights is a real bonus here.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful
Posted on October 25, 2015
This glassblower on Murano knows that molten glass needs to be handled carefully, for aesthetic as well as safety reasons.
Still Life With Mushrooms
Posted on October 22, 2015
This is an image of a wooden sculpture of a group of mushrooms. It’s really cleverly done, as the individual mushrooms are detachable, and very tactile. The monochrome brings out the textures of the wood quite well, I think.
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary
Posted on October 17, 2015
What could be more ordinary – banal, even – than a bubble? Yet, rather like snowflakes, every bubble is unique and therefore extraordinary.
Pine cone: detail
Posted on October 15, 2015
Something small….this is one of my efforts at getting proper use out of my macro lens (Nikon 105mm, if you’re interested) and it’s a detail from a photograph of a pine cone.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place
Posted on October 11, 2015
“If you get confused, listen to the music play”
– Grateful Dead: ‘Franklin’s Tower’
This week’s Photo Challenge wants to know “Where do you go when you need to think? What do you do when you need to restore yourself, to ready yourself to take on the coming week with energy and verve? How do you get your sense of humor back? How do you recharge your groove?”
That’s an easy one for me. I just put in my noise-cancelling earphones and choose something from here. Or maybe from the 900 or so concert downloads that I’ve accumulated over the almost twenty five years since the bus came by and I got on.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place.
[taken with my iPhone, hence the slightly blurred effect. Although that could just be ‘Dark Star’]
How does that look?
Posted on October 9, 2015
We’ve just spent a few days in and around the – very picturesque – medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne.
This photograph was taken from the ascenseur panoramique – a glass-walled lift (elevator, if you insist) that climbs 100 feet inside the bell-tower of a church. From the top you get excellent – nay, panoramique – views of the rooftops of old Sarlat and the surrounding countryside…
…as well as these happy snappers reviewing their images of the bronze geese in the Place du Marché aux Oies – the Goose Market.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries
Posted on October 3, 2015
A stream and a line of well-cultivated trees provides an effective boundary at Chateau du Fraisse, just outside Nouic in the Haute-Vienne.
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