52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 34 Colour without colour
Posted on August 22, 2020
This week’s Smartphone Challenge is to tell a colourful story, but in monochrome.
This clematis is actually a delightful shade of purple, but in black and white it contrasts very well with the green leaves behind. The monochrome treatment also helps to highlight the intricacy at the centre of the flower.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge: 34 Colourful in B&W
In need of repair
Posted on August 22, 2020
This was the interior of our barn when we bought Brokedown Palace. Yes, that is a big hole in the roof in the middle of the image.
What were we thinking?
Rooftops of Sarlat
Posted on August 20, 2020
Look out from the glass-walled lift that’s installed in the church tower of the medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and old buildings is just about all you get.
Monday Window: Perigueux Cathedral
Posted on August 17, 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 33 Tell A Lie
Posted on August 15, 2020
Lies, all lies. Our local pharmacy doesn’t sell rhino horn and it’s not rhino horn anyway.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge 33
Shadows and reflections
Posted on August 14, 2020
Cee’s theme for her Black & White Challenge this week is shadows and reflections. You’re more likely to get just one or the other in a single image, but this picture of a well-preserved stone sarcophagus in the cloister of the local museum at Perigueux manages to combine the two thanks to the strong shadow cast by the bright sunlight and the reflection of yours truly (sadly, rather less well=preserved).
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Shadows and reflections
Frosted
Posted on August 12, 2020
Monday Window: Bernard’s Barn
Posted on August 10, 2020
This window is in the back wall of our neighbour Bernard’s barn. Reflected in it are the camellias that festoon the garden fence of my mother’s little house.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 32 Frame within a frame
Posted on August 8, 2020
This week in the Smartphone Challenge we’re asked for a shot that’s framed naturally.
Can do. At the side of our garage a line of trees separates our property from a neighbour’s field, in which he grazes some of his horses.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 32
Roman carving
Posted on August 7, 2020
Archaeologists excavating the Gallo-Roman site of Argentomagus, in central France, have uncovered many impressive statues and stone carvings.
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