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.
We don’t say faucet
Posted on March 27, 2015
Bathrooms aren’t the most obvious source of photographic inspiration, so I’m indebted to Cee for forcing me to use a bit of imagination for a change. This is a close-up of the rather complicated arrangement of taps (or ‘robinets’ in French) on the side of my bath.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photography Challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Posted on March 21, 2015
Detail from a display of fresh fruit and vegetables at the Rialto market in Venice.
Posted in response to the latest WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
Name that tune
Posted on March 20, 2015
Detail from a piano in the Music Room of Chateau d’Amboise (where you can also find the empty chair).
Posted in response to the latest of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall
Posted on March 14, 2015
This is a detail from one of the underpasses – each individually designed – that are dotted along the Corniche in Abu Dhabi.
Posted as a response to this week’s Photo Challenge.
Venice, Schmenice, it’s all about me!
Posted on March 13, 2015
It takes a lot to move me to incandescent rage, but my encounters with the phenomenon of ‘selfie sticks’ when in Venice last year prompted me to this rant. And I have to say that time has proved to be no emollient.
As far as I can see, there is only one possible valid use for a selfie stick, and since science has already invented colonoscopes for that kind of thing, even that’s debatable.
But, if you want something in response to Cee’s latest Black & White challenge, here’s a photograph I took on Burano last October.














