Petrified
Posted on January 28, 2022
Near the village of Savonnières-Villandry there is a network of caves in which a constant process of petrification is going on. Any object that is left inside is slowly but inexorably turned to stone through a continuous process of petrification.
Saint Fillan’s Cave
Posted on January 26, 2022
Is it a door or is it a gate? Let’s compromise and call it a gate in a doorway.
This little grotto was said to be the dwelling place of the Christian ascetic Saint Fillan. It’s very small, which is why it’s tucked away in a a little alleyway in Pittenweem.
The guitar
Posted on January 22, 2022
Cee’s theme for this week’s Black & White Challenge is anything to do with music.
My grandson is, though I say so myself, a very talented guitarist and this image is a detail of his electric guitar – or, more accurately, one of his electric guitars.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything to do with music
Adaptation
Posted on January 21, 2022
This rather stark, quasi-abstract image obviously requires some explanation. It’s a skyscape of course, but the cables are what carry the electricity from the nearest substation – about three miles away – to the outlying hamlets, including Tranquility Base.
These cables are strung from a long line of concrete posts that run all the way along the side of the road. Except in this case the post has been replaced by what can only be described as a forked tree branch, incongruous among the concrete. I suppose they know what they’re doing.
The chemtrail of the plane passing overhead is important in adding depth and context to the image.
CMMC 19 January 2022
White swans
Posted on January 16, 2022
This week, I present a rare example of me multi-tasking. The image of these swans was captured by the lake next to Linlithgow Palace and it fulfils the criteria not only for Cee’s Midweek Challenge, where the prompt was ‘white’, but also her Black & White Challenge, for which the theme was ‘birds’.
Call the glazier
Posted on January 12, 2022
The best you can say about these windows is that they let the light in.
Along with everything else.
This tower is part of the ruins of the medieval castle in St. Andrews.
Small but perfectly formed
Posted on January 8, 2022
Across The Forth
Posted on January 5, 2022
You may think that this image of the Firth of Forth was captured at sunset. However, it was actually taken just before noon and is looking due south from the Fife village of Pittenweem towards East Lothian in the distance.
It’s all a matter, when shooting into the sun, of keeping the sun itself out of the image.
I think it certainly fits the brief for this week’s ‘Fun Foto’ theme of ‘water, water everywhere’.
December’s Last Photo
Posted on January 1, 2022
Appropriately enough, sunset on 2021. You will not be sorely missed.
River Reflections
Posted on December 30, 2021
For Cee’s December midweek challenge – ‘must begin with R’. Take your pick.
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