Faded Fresco
Posted on July 1, 2020
This faded – and, by the look of it, unfinished – fresco in the church at Confolens is in need of some sympathetic restoration…
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 26 Geometry
Posted on June 27, 2020
We reach the halfway point of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge with, thankfully, a reasonably straightforward theme: geometry.
The roof of our neighbours’ barn is, if you look at it carefully, a riot of curves and straight lines – and certainly geometrical. It just goes to show that geometry is all around us.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge 26 Geometry
The old florists’ shop
Posted on June 26, 2020
This shop, formerly a florists’, is one of many in the town of Bellac that is now closed and boarded up. But it’s a lot more attractive than most.
Kitchen doorknob
Posted on June 23, 2020
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week demands images of doorknobs.
Her wish is my command, so here – viewed from above – is the knob on one of the drawers in our kitchen. They look nice, but do try to avoid walking into them.
Monday Window: The church at Azay-Le-Ferron
Posted on June 22, 2020
Last week I featured a window at the chateau in Azay-Le-Ferron, and this week I’ve moved on to the church.
Stained glass is nowhere near as impressive when viewed from the outside, but it’s an interesting and attractive window nonetheless, and harmonises well with the church door, I think.
#MondayWindow 22 June 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 25 Freedom
Posted on June 21, 2020
‘Free as a bird’. That’s what they say, isn’t it?
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 25 Freedom
Disused railway tracks
Posted on June 19, 2020
Disused tracks just outside the old railway station in Chabanais.
(I applied an infra-red filter in order to enhance the impact of the vegetation – a polite way of saying weeds).
A Single Flower
Posted on June 17, 2020
Cee’s Fun Challenge for this week wants images of a single flower. This was one that emerged from a scattering of mixed wild flowers that we sowed in our garden last year.
Monday Window: Chateau Azay-Le-Ferron
Posted on June 15, 2020
British readers of a certain age will understand the reference if I were to say that this week “we’re going through the…..round window”.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 24 Who Inspires You?
Posted on June 14, 2020
The great irony this week is that the theme for the Smartphone Challenge is ‘who inspires you?’ and I have rarely felt so uninspired in my entire life.
However, to get round the inherent difficulties this week I have – and I freely admit it – cheated. Here’s how.
If you have ever looked at my other blog you’ll have quickly picked up that I am a huge fan of the Grateful Dead and I truly do find their endless inventiveness an inspiration. So, using my smartphone, I took this screenshot of a photograph of Jerry Garcia.
And that’s what you’re getting for this week.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 24 Who Inspires You?
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