Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
Posted on September 23, 2014
The blue paint on this old door in the nearby village of Bonnefont, here in Haute-Vienne, has obviously endured whatever the local climate has thrown at it over many years.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity
Posted on September 13, 2014
This is from a few years back. On a trip to Oman, we went out to to look for dolphins. Khaled didn’t waste the opportunity to catch his dinner.
Butterflies on Buddleia
Posted on September 7, 2014
An hour or so on a sunny afternoon, loitering with intent around the buddleia (well named as the ‘butterfly bush’) produced these images:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue
Posted on September 1, 2014
Not sure that these two butterflies, captured on my buddleia (“butterfly bush”) this very afternoon, had much to say to each other, but there was probably a dialogue of some sort going on.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
Posted on August 23, 2014
The dried and fraying husk of a seed-pod, photographed last December in a nearby hedgerow.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
Posted on August 18, 2014
A French military helicopter making an appearance at a local air show last summer
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Posted on August 9, 2014
Macro is a good way to discover texture. This is the stamen of a lily. Try not to get the pollen on your clothes: it’ll never come off.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
Posted on August 2, 2014
This is one of the glass and steel ceilings of Dubai Mall (yes, I know it’s upside down: it just looks better this way).
Monet’s Garden
Posted on July 29, 2014
I recently visited Monet’s Garden, in Normandy. You’ve probably heard of it, and of Monet himself, the founder of Impressionism.
The garden itself is rightly famous, although I was surprised to discover that almost all of the plants there are quite common varieties, rather than horticultural curiosities. What grabs the attention is the way they are all closely planted in what is a comparatively small space.
The overall impact is quite stunning, but for me the details were even more impressive. Clever old thing, Nature.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic
Posted on July 14, 2014
Recently, I went to a display of old cars and farming machinery in the village of Lesterps, not far from here. I now have many, many pictures of ancient tractors and some quite cool vintage cars, but this image of a child’s tricycle from yesteryear is perhaps a bit more than just a record shot.
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