Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
Posted on March 7, 2015
This week’s challenge asks us to feature the colour orange in a gallery. Ours not to reason why, so here are three images heavy on the orange:
1) A spectacular sunset over Beverley in Yorkshire
2) Part of the innards of a vintage tractor, taken at the display of old-time cars and agricultural machinery in Lesterps
3) All I know about this is that it’s a flower and I took the photograph in Abu Dhabi. Anybody know what it is?
(Incidentally, apart from some cropping of the second and third, there’s been no post-processing of any of these images. Which is unusual for me.)
Recycling point
Posted on March 6, 2015
Every village in France has its ‘dechette’, or recycling point, where you can get rid of your old newspapers, an alarming number of empty wine bottles and, of course, plastic packaging. Good citizens that we are, we sort out our own recycling and take it to the dechette on a regular basis. This is the sack for empty plastic bottles.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward
Posted on March 2, 2015
Here are my twin grandsons chasing the reward of an apple on Halloween last year. A response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge.
Wheels within wheels
Posted on February 27, 2015
Montrol-Sénard is a village in the Limousin countryside, not far from here, that is preserved as a living museum of rural life at around the turn of the last century. This image shows part of a piece of machinery in the village smithy. Don’t ask me what it’s for.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge.
Coffee and Chrome
Posted on February 23, 2015
For this week’s edition of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – and my 100th post on this site, to boot – here’s one of the most important appliances in my kitchen (and quite probably many of yours too).
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Posted on February 22, 2015
For this week’s challenge, a photograph of some seedpods of an Honesty plant (known in France as ‘monnaie du Pape’ – The Pope’s Money). I do like a bit of bokeh.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry
Posted on February 18, 2015
A head-on view of a Victor bomber on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum.
Autrefois: Bussiere-Poitevine
Posted on February 17, 2015
This is the first post in a new category of ‘Autrefois’, in which I’ve tried to reproduce, as closely as possible, the modern look of views shown on old picture postcards of the Haute Vienne departément.
Bussiere-Poitevine: the tram station
Between the two wars, there was an extensive tram network in the Limousin region. Today very little remains, apart from some of the old stations (gares), with their distinctive checkered brickwork around doors and windows and corners.
The gare at Bussiere-Poitevine is one of the better-preserved and now does service as a municipal building.
Bussiere-Poitevine: Maison Leger Montel
I’ve no idea what kind of shop Maison Leger Montel was, although when the picture for the postcard was taken they had a sale (‘Soldes’) on.
Today, it’s a hairdressers.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Construction
Posted on February 13, 2015
‘The Landmark’ is – or was – the tallest building in Abu Dhabi. Here it is under construction, pushing up through an early morning fog.
Posted in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
The empty chair
Posted on February 6, 2015
For this week’s instalment of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge, here is a photograph taken at Chateau d’Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire départment of central France.
The chateau’s main claim to fame is that it’s the burial place of Leonardo da Vinci.
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