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?
Through the archway
Posted on June 12, 2020
I spotted this little statue of a sanglier (wild boar) through an aRchway in the old town of Perigueux.
The curve of the boar\s back echoes that of the archway and contrasts with the more formal geometric shapes of the stonework and the steps.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: must contain the letter ‘R’
Hats Under Wraps
Posted on June 10, 2020
Madame rocks a nice hat, but there are very few opportunities to wear one in the French countryside. Rather than hide them away, however, a series of them stand – under wraps – on the top of her wardrobe.
https://ceenphotography.com/2020/06/09/cffc-hats/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hats
Monday Window: Confolens
Posted on June 8, 2020
Another mightily impressive stained glass window from the church in Confolens:
#MondayWindow 8 June 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 23 Leading Lines
Posted on June 7, 2020
Week 23 of the Smartphone Challeneg is, frankly, a bit of an odd one. We are invited to use strong leading lines in food photography.
Okay….
Now, as I do not use Instagram (where I believe it’s compulsory), I’m not in the habit of posting photographs of every scrap of food I consume, I just had to come up with something.
So here’s a picture of a swede (‘rutabaga‘ en français) on our kitchen table.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge
Welcome shade
Posted on June 5, 2020
Most benches in Abu Dhabi tend to come with an accompanying shelter to provide some shade – essential when the sun beats down all day and air temperatures routinely exceed 40 degrees.
These benches are on Yas Island and, it must be said, are rather less interesting than the sinuous curves of the structure that shades them (not entirely successfully).
Tagged
Posted on June 3, 2020
The artist who produced this graffito, on the outskirts of Nantes, is obviously committed to the cause, given that whoever it was had to scale a wall to get up onto the roof of a shop.
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