Poinsettia at its peak
Posted on January 3, 2024
If you want something red (as Cee does for this week’s Fun Foto Challenge) you don’t need to look much further than a poinsettia, especially at this time of year.
Last On The Card: Moonshot
Posted on January 2, 2024
I captured this view of a bright moon, partly obscured by light clouds, on my way to put out the bins. How prosaic.
(My hands must be steadier than I thought: exposure time was 0.5 seconds)
Cellpic Sunday: Michelangelo, eat your heart out
Posted on December 31, 2023
It’s not just the Sistine Chapel that boasts a fancy ceiling. This one is in the Henri Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi, which is housed in the former Bishops’ Palace, just a step away from the Cathedral.
Relics
Posted on December 28, 2023
This somewhat macabre collection of gold and silver items are to be found in the trésorerie of Albi Cathedral and contain the relics of its patroness, Sainte-Cécile.
Allegedly.
Geometric symmetry
Posted on December 28, 2023
The geometric forms in this half-timbered house in Chabanais chime well with the image that Cee has chosen for her latest Midweek Challenge.
I wonder if the house number is 29 (XXIX).
Broken bottle
Posted on December 26, 2023
Topsy Turvy
Posted on December 23, 2023
Here, I’m taking advantage of Cee’s rule that signs are always acceptable for her CWWC challenge.
This is the road that leads into the nearby village of Blond, on the morning of this year’s Christmas Fair.
Note that the sign is upside down. That’s because of an ongoing national campaign by young farmers, who are protesting that the profits from agriculture are too heavily skewed towards the conglomerates at the apex of the pyramid, rather than the actual producers themselves. Sounds legit.
Lens-Artists Challenge – Last Chance
Posted on December 18, 2023
Since I’m fairly new to the Lens-Artists Challenge, finding an image that I haven’t already used for it this year wasn’t really a problem. In fact, I haven’t posted this image anywhere before, although since I took it in August I’ve been itching for an excuse to put it in a post.
It was taken at a kiddies’ playground near my son’s home in Oxfordshire. Our two-year old grand-daughter gets taken there quite often. so will definitely have crawled through this tunnel many times.
The blue mural
Posted on December 17, 2023
This mural, made up of characteristically blue Portuguese tiles, is to be found in the Chateau de la Mercerie.
Cellpic Sunday: A room without a view
Posted on December 17, 2023
A few weeks ago, my entry for Cellpic Sunday was a rather attractive view from a hotel room.
This is also a view from a (different) hotel room. Rather less prepossessing, but with a little judicious cropping and straightening in Lightroom it’s possible to produce a rather more interesting image.
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