Lens-Artists Challenge: Cityscapes
Posted on March 17, 2024
Way back when, we found ourselves in Sydney on New Year’s Eve and so were able to experience the world-famous fireworks display for ourselves.
Cellpic Sunday: Double rainbow
Posted on March 17, 2024
Last weekend, I could hear the rain battering against the windows, but when I looked out, the sky was bright blue.
We all know what that means : rainbow. Or, in this case, a double rainbow.
Perspective: Compression
Posted on March 12, 2024
I took this photo a few years ago on a coach trip to the town of Pompadour (home of the French National Stud). There’s an extravagantly-decorated chapel (The Chapel of St Blaise) in a nearby village and while inside I pointed my camera through the open door.
It looks almost like a framed two-dimensional picture, but the optical effect of using a long lens compresses the perspective so that in fact there are at least four ‘planes’ in the image. Beyond the door there are two unseen sidewalks and a road before you get to the steps, at the top of which is a narrow terrace before you get to the wall and the front door.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Circular Wonders
Posted on March 11, 2024
Confession time. This is, in fact, a photograph of a painting. However, it’s a very striking piece of art with an image of three dandelion heads.
It was actually hanging on a bedroom wall of a holiday cottage where we were staying a couple of weeks ago, but it certainly fits the brief of ‘Circular Wonders’ for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge.
Cellpic Sunday: Another room with a view
Posted on March 10, 2024
During a recent visit to the UK we stayed at a hotel near St Pancras and Kings’ Cross stations. This is the rather unexpected view from our room.
I cropped the original to establish some symmetry between the two walls and darkened the shadows on the left one for a more pleasing contrast.
Public Utilities Access
Posted on March 7, 2024
Apparently, it’s not just electricity and telecommunication cables and sewage pipes that can be found beneath the streets of Limoges…
Gone to seed
Posted on March 7, 2024
No, not me. Not quite yet, anyway.
What is this hideous-looking ‘thing’? A nameless creature breaking through from another dimension to wreak havoc and destruction on a helpless world?
Fortunately not. This is what happens when potatoes go to seed..
Near Neighbours
Posted on March 5, 2024
The houses themselves aren’t visible from the street (in Saint-Junien) but they’re obviously close to each other.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Tools of Composition
Posted on March 4, 2024
The house opposite my daughter’s has just got a new roof…
Cropping in to exclude everything but the tiles themselves not only removes distractions but also brings out the texture of the tiles as well as the patterns they form – obviously all helped by a bright, sunny day.
Barrel Ceiling
Posted on March 2, 2024
Last Friday evening, Madame and I had dinner at a rather nice (and nicely unpretentious) bistro in Paris.
I noticed that the ceiling was quite unusual, so captured an image of it using the ‘selfie’ camera on my iPhone.
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