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.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Sound
Posted on February 18, 2024
This is the organ of the massive cathedral in the city of Albi, in southern France. The human figures give an idea of the scale. I can only imagine the sound of it filling that enormous space.
Cellpic Sunday: A Menacing Murmuration
Posted on February 18, 2024
Of late, an entire murmuration of starlings seems to have taken up residence in the trees in one of our fields. Obviously they’re harmless, but when they’re perched on every available branch, just looking at you, they do impart an air of menace.
Budding
Posted on February 9, 2024
We’re getting towards the cusp of winter and spring now, and already new life is stirring in the undergrowth, as evidenced by the buds appearing on this blackthorn bush.
I decided to try and make a virtue of my inability to get sharp focus with the camera on my smartphone by taking advantage of the bokeh that this image provided (I say ‘bokeh’, you could reasonably say ‘blur’).
Lens-Artists Challenge: Warm Colours
Posted on February 6, 2024
Photographing fireworks is always a bit of a lucky dip (basically, press the shutter and hope), but sometimes the results can look spectacular. I wouldn’t pretend that this image – captured at a National Day celebration in our local village a few years ago – was especially outstanding, but it certainly meets the brief of warm colours for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge.
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