Weekly Photo Challenge: Connected
Posted on September 7, 2015
What could be more appropriate for this week’s theme of ‘Connected’ than a wedding?
I’m very happy to say that I took this photograph last Saturday at my son’s wedding. Stealing the show between the bride and groom is their much-loved dog.
Abstract shadows
Posted on September 4, 2015
Palm trees cast long shadows across a path in Hili Oasis, near Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, producing the illusion of depth in an abstract image that makes me think of something a space probe might send back from the surface of a distant planet. (Although that’s probably just me.)
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections and Shadows
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Every Angle
Posted on August 30, 2015
You’d never classify them among nature’s greatest beauties, but snails can be fascinating creatures.
– whichever way you look at them:
Reach for the sky
Posted on August 29, 2015
Taken on a Boxing Day walk in 2013, this image shows the bare branches of an oak tree against the sky.
Crocuses
Posted on August 20, 2015
Presenting a monochrome image of a flower that’s at least as interesting as the original is quite challenging, since one of the main selling-points of flower photography is the colour. Hopefully, though, this picture of a couple of crocuses does the job – helped by the lead-in lines provided by the leaves.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy
Posted on August 15, 2015
Here is an image you could describe as creepy. Or maybe just plain weird. Taken through a shop doorway in Venice last year.
Moving Parts
Posted on August 15, 2015
Not a refugee from a Transformers movie, but a close-up of one of the cylinders on a propeller engine from an old aeroplane.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things With Engines or Motors
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet
Posted on August 8, 2015
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
– Oscar Wilde
In nearby Le Dorat, some council workmen were marking out parking bays in the main square, using these shiny metal studs. In their pristine state, they provided some lovely reflections.
Sabots
Posted on August 6, 2015
Until well into the last century, the ‘ default’ footwear in rural France was wooden clogs, made by the local ‘sabotier’ (the French word for clog is ‘sabot’ – from which the word ‘saboteur’ is also derived). Indeed, part of our house was once the local sabotier’s workshop, as shown in the second image at the bottom of this post.
Nowadays, clogs are mainly used for decorative purposes (we have a couple of old pairs ourselves), but they are still used by a local traditional dance troupe, as shown in this image.
(On this occasion I decided to use a sepia tone as it seems more in keeping with the ‘retro’ subject)
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hands, Feet or Paws
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This room is now our entrance hall. It’s been done up a bit since this was taken.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inspiration
Posted on August 1, 2015
Having a camera means seeing the world with a photographer’s eye. It can also mean being able to see things that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye. That’s inspiring.
This photograph illustrates the point. Last weekend was the annual airshow (‘estevol’) at Blond. It was a cloudy, overcast day which at least meant that the sky provided a good neutral background. It was also very windy.
One of the regular features of the estevol is a very colourful display of kites. The wind was perfect for flying them, but it took a camera – and only 1/8000 of a second – to ‘freeze’ this particular ‘cerf-volant’, which otherwise would have been just a blur.
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