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.
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.
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