Palm tree at Hili Oasis
Posted on January 16, 2015
Another entry for this week’s Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.
Taken at the Hili Oasis in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, this is the stump of a palm tree that’s had a severe pruning.
The woodpile
Posted on January 16, 2015
Last year, we had a dead oak tree at the bottom of one of our fields. Patrice, the local forestier, cut it down for us and turned it into logs for our woodburning stoves. This year, it’s helping to keep us warm.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
Posted on January 10, 2015
Can you see what it is yet? This is a ‘doctored’ detail – complete with shadows – of the roof of a villa at the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
To put it into context, here’s another image:
Freezing fog
Posted on January 9, 2015
In response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge – Weather, an image taken last winter here at Tranquility Base.
The link to the challenge is here.
Santa’s gone off-piste
Posted on January 6, 2015
Nobody would begrudge Santa a holiday after his recent busy time, and why shouldn’t he go skiing? But he must have overdone the glühwein a bit to end up flat out on a supermarket shelf in the middle of France earlier today.
(inspired by Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge)
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Feet
Posted on January 2, 2015
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/01/01/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-shoes-or-feet/
Detail from the base of a lectern in St Mary’s Church, Beverley. Of course the subject is the feet, but the reflection of the church interior provides context.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth
Posted on December 29, 2014
“Warmth” certainly gives plenty of scope for interpretation.
Below is one take on it: an image from a few years ago of a very small and very warm grandson surrounded by very warm colours in a children’s playground in Abu Dhabi (it was October: trust me, it was warm).
For a completely different take on “warmth”, here is my contribution on this topic for last month’s ‘Photography 101’ challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow
Posted on December 20, 2014
To fit this week’s theme, another image from the inexhaustible fount of photographic possibilities that is Dubai Mall. This one is a lantern, or chandelier if you prefer. I placed the camera on the floor and hovered around it protectively while the exposure was made.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle
Posted on December 13, 2014
Another image from Dubai Mall, this one of an ornamental pool on the way down to the underground car park (it’s Dubai, what do you expect?)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten
Posted on December 9, 2014
A discarded flower, perhaps given added poignancy by the fact that it had been a buttonhole worn at a wedding I attended last summer.
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