Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

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.

Shadowed

To put it into context, here’s another image:

Shadowed2

 

 

Freezing fog

In response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge – Weather, an image taken last winter here at Tranquility Base.

Freezing fog

The link to the challenge is here.

 

 

Santa’s gone off-piste

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.

Santa

 

(inspired by Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge)

 

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Feet

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.

B&WFeet

Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth

“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).

WarmthWPC

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

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.

Yellow

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

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?)

Twinkle

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten

A discarded flower, perhaps given added poignancy by the fact that it had been a buttonhole worn at a wedding I attended last summer.

Gone

Photography 101: Triumph

My grandson triumphantly raises his arms as his bowling ball heads down the lane for a strike.

Triumph

As a point of information, this is the boy who was taking a peek at his brother here.

Oh, and the plaster cast came about after he jumped out of a tree. As any self-respecting six-year old would, obviously.

Photography 101: Double

These popped up together earlier this year in a window box that had been sewn with an unspecified seed mixture.

Respecting the brief for today’s challenge, the image has been rotated 90° anti-clockwise into a landscape view, which certainly looks more compelling than the ‘as shot’ portrait mode (look at it sideways and you’ll see what I mean).

Double