Lens-Artists Challenge: Ancient
Posted on October 21, 2025
This towering bastion – all the more imposing for surmounting a rocky outcrop – is to be found in the mightily impressive medieval city of Chauvigny, near Poitiers in the Vienne département of France.
Monochrome madness: Ceramics
Posted on October 16, 2025
Until recently (Covid did for it, as so many other things), a local Association put on an annual Expo of local peoples’ collections, interests and hobbies. One year there was an exhibition of ceramics by a keen local collector.
This featured a number of hand-painted ceramic tiles and this is one which, I believe, benefits from being rendered in monochrome (the real thing has a very wishy-washy green background)
Lens-Artists Challenge: Dreamy
Posted on October 14, 2025
It occurred to me that this would be a suitable image for this week’s Lens-Artists challenge of ‘Dreamy’, largely because I have just referred to a post on my other website: theonlydeadheadinthehameau.wordpress.com.
This is not deliberately out of focus, but it was taken – in the medieval French town of Sarlat – through a window containing some extremely old glass. Very obviously the early glaziers hadn’t quite yet mastered the techniques for making clear glass. Still, it let the light in and kept the weather out, so it marked real progress back then.
Cellpic Sunday: It’s that time of year…
Posted on October 12, 2025
When the sun comes out again after a few days of rain, you can be sure the mushrooms won’t be far behind…
Lens-Artists Challenge: Autumn Colours
Posted on October 6, 2025
Well, it’s definitely that time of year again, and apart from the chillier mornings perhaps the most immediately noticeable sign that autumn is upon us is nature’s changing colour palette as the predominant greens steadily turn to reds and browns.
Monochrome Madness: Ruins
Posted on October 2, 2025
As the topic for Monochrome Madness this time out is ‘Ruins’, eschewing the easy option of just posting an early morning selfie, I decided to stay with the subject of my Lens-Artists contribution earlier this week: the fabled ruins of the city of Petra.
For an idea of scale in this vast edifice, just take note of the human figures at bottom left.
Last On the card: Maybe…
Posted on October 2, 2025
Spotted in Lidl during their Foire Aux Vins: ‘tomorrow I’ll stop…perhaps’.
(The label also states: ‘wine naturally low in alcohol’. Obviously, I didn’t buy it.)
Lens-Artists Challenge: Everyone should see…Petra
Posted on September 30, 2025
For many years, the ‘rose-red city’ of Petra, in Jordan, was right at the top of my bucket list. I finally made it for my 60th birthday.
The main approach to the city is through a narrow path called the ‘Siq’, which runs for about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometres in the new money) between two high and rocky outcrops which, for most of the way, is all you can see. But then you round a slight curve in the path and there is your first glimpse of the Nabatean Treasury. Not something easily forgotten…
Monochrome Madness: Symmetry
Posted on September 20, 2025
The theme for the latest iteration of Monochrome Madness is ‘symmetry’ – which is always something that most photographers are on the lookout for.
Architecture – especially classical architecture – is usually a good place to look for symmetry in an image, and I think it certainly works here, in a view of the imposing nave of the Collegiale in Le Dorat.
Cellpic Sunday: A Mackerel Sky
Posted on September 14, 2025
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