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.
Monday Window: Noirlac
Posted on June 1, 2020
The restored Abbaye de Noirlac includes a number of bedrooms furnished in the appropriate style. With the bed being off to the left, behind the curtain, you could probably describe this particular example in hotel terms as a ‘junior suite’.
#MondayWindow 1 June 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 22 Stranger
Posted on June 1, 2020
I thought that this rather mysterious painted shopfront in the nearby town of Bellac was suitable for the theme of ‘Stranger’ in Week 22 of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
In English, the words over the door read: ‘At the beginning of the 90s…somewhere in the desert of Tamalkan…I lost myself’
I can find no trace of anywhere on Earth called Tamalkan. The mystery deepens…
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge 22 Stranger
Oryx
Posted on May 29, 2020
A safe home in the Sir Bani Yas game reserve, Abu Dhabi.
Posted in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: All About Nature
All made by man
Posted on May 27, 2020
The fence was made by men. The rusting cars were made by men.
And so was the destruction: Oradour-sur-Glane.
Monday Window: Nantes
Posted on May 25, 2020
Another of the restored (replaced) stained glass window from the cathedral of Nantes.
#MondayWindow 25 May 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 21 Serenity
Posted on May 23, 2020
“What does serenity mean to you?’ is the question posed for the 21st instalment of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
I always find this view very tranquil and calming (not that I often need to calm down). It’s what I see when I look over the wall of our back garden. The two fields were bought with the house, so for a few brief minutes I am master of all I survey.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge: 21 Serenity
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