Running on empty
Posted on April 30, 2015
On one of the weekend photography courses I attended in Abu Dhabi, we were let loose to look for something ‘quirky’. I saw the word “Empty’ written next to a manhole cover.
So I put my wallet underneath the sign and took this picture.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
Posted on April 27, 2015
Ah, the jet-ski: the noisy scourge of the Abu Dhabi beach. At least this one had the good grace to be a red foreground object.
Fractal Romanesco
Posted on April 24, 2015
Quite some time ago, before I even set up this separate photography site, I produced a post containing some close-up images of a romanesco.
For the uninitiated, romanesco is a – rather tasty – cross between broccoli and cauliflower, with a very distinctive appearance that reminds me of a fractal. And since there is such a thing as fractal geometry, here is another image that qualifies for this week’s challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird
Posted on April 18, 2015
When visiting Petra, go early, not just to miss the crowds but for the quality of the light.
This is a view of the ‘Siq’ – the long narrow gorge that eventually opens out to the dramatic and famous view of the Treasury. It was early, but as you can see, we weren’t the first.
Numbers
Posted on April 17, 2015
This is what passes for a licence plate around here, stencilled onto the back of the seat of an ancient and well-used tractor that belongs to the local commune.
In response to the latest of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat
Posted on April 11, 2015
Silverback
Posted on April 10, 2015
A silverback gorilla at Vallée des Singes, Vienne (not a selfie).
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur
Posted on April 4, 2015
This image was taken as part of an assignment on a ‘Beginners’ photography course I took in Abu Dhabi. The technique involves mounting a camera with a zoom lens on a tripod, setting a long exposure and then rotating the zoom while taking the picture. Obviously it works best at night, as here, and it does provide some vey arresting, Matrix-like images.
Screenshot
Posted on April 2, 2015
Anything to do with phones is this week’s Black & White Photo Challenge. I can’t imagine how to make a phone – of whatever vintage – interesting, although there’s a certain wry amusement to be gleaned from seeing a picture of what at first glance looks like a housebrick but on closer inspection proves to be an eighties ‘mobile’ (think Gordon Gekko).
Anyway, with modern day phones being largely generic in their external appearance, it seemed to me that what differentiates them is their personalised home page; so here is a screenshot of mine.
I would just like to point out that the background image is most definitely not a selfie.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral
Posted on March 28, 2015
What could be more ephemeral than a firework?
Posted in response to the latest WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.
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