Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up
Posted on July 25, 2015
The heart of a poppy in Monet’s Garden at Giverney. I hadn’t spotted the flying creatures until I zoomed in on the image
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Posted on July 18, 2015
Against the background of a clear blue sky, rows of vines run up to the horizon near the village of Äy, in the Champagne region of France.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Classic Citroen
Posted on July 17, 2015
A beautifully restored classic Citroën car, certainly more than 50 years old, displayed at the annual Lesterps exhibition of vintage cars and agricultural equipment. The clouds reflected in the glossy bodywork, give an extra dimension to the image, while the dappled sunshine on the ground behind adds depth.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Older Than Fifty Years
Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol
Posted on July 10, 2015
Next Tuesday, July 14th, is France’s Fête Nationale – National Day, or Bastille Day – so it seems appropriate for this week’s ‘Symbol’ challenge to show an image that symbolises our adopted country.
Accordingly, here is a detail of the Mairie (town hall) of the commune in which we live. It’s worth pointing out that administrative power in France is heavily devolved down to the local level, and pretty much anything you want to get done – from getting married to having a new garage built – needs to be approved by, and go through, your local Mairie.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol.
Monumental
Posted on July 10, 2015
Large? You want large? Take a look at the human figures at bottom left of this image from Petra and you’ll get some idea of the scale of this monumental work.
Art in the service of religion
Posted on July 3, 2015
In response to this week’s Black & White Challenge from Cee, here is an image of the extraordinarily intricate carving above the great door of Chartres Cathedral.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
Posted on June 27, 2015
This week we’re asked ‘what subject do you turn to frequently, more inspired each time?’
Well, I don’t know about the ‘more inspired’ bit, but I do like a nice reflection: as I’ve described it before, Nature’s best buy-one-get-one-free deal. So, here are three images I’ve captured over the past couple of weeks.
The first was taken from a boat on the Dordogne River:
Dordogne riverbank
The second is from the same boat trip, but I flipped the image 90 degrees clockwise for a more dramatic efect
A different perspective
And finally, taken at a display by the Cadre Noir elite team at France’s National equestrian School in Saumur, a rider passes in front of a mirror
Cadre Noir
Across the fields
Posted on June 26, 2015
A view of the nearby village of Lesterps on a suitably overcast, monochrome kind of day.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Roy G Biv
Posted on June 20, 2015
All the colours of the rainbow – captured at the Blond Airshow last summer.
Fallow Ground
Posted on June 18, 2015
Five minutes walk down the road from here is this field, which last year had a late crop of maize. This year it’s been left fallow, but this is what it looked like in January.
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