Cellpic Sunday: Meet the locals
Posted on March 23, 2025
The local breed of cattle in this particular part of France is the Limousin, characterised by the lovely golden brown colour of their hides, seen at its best in the sunlight..
Apparently they can be quite stroppy, but this one just looks curious, and the other two only have eyes for each other. There again, I was making sure to keep my distance.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Portraits
Posted on March 18, 2025
Like many others. I suspect, I’m not really comfortable with portrait photography. There’s no doubt that it’s an art form in itself – cf. Annie Leibovitz, for example, or Karsh of Ottawa – but I feel much more relaxed focusing (literally) on non-human subjects.
Nonetheless, I thought I’d give it a go for the Lens-Artists Challenge this week and started to comb through my image library. I was very happy – and surprised – to come across this image of a young chimpanzee. It had been misfiled (and therefore forgotten about), but my best guess is that it was taken at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
As portraits go, I don’t think it’s a complete disaster. The subject is calm, reflective – a little curious, even. And, happily, looking straight at the camera.
Cellpic Sunday: Spring is sprung
Posted on March 16, 2025
Monochrome Madness: The Waiting Room
Posted on March 11, 2025
I hope I’m not too late to join this particular party, but the latest theme for Monochrome Madness is/was ‘chair’ or ‘chairs’.
These particular examples of functional utilitarianism can be found in the waiting room of the main hospital in the town of St-Junien.
(Well, I say waiting room, but in reality it’s just a corridor with groups of colour-coded seats outside a long line of consulting rooms). In colour, these are actually a lurid, determinedly institutional green plastic, but the monochrome conversion does bring out some interesting textures, notably on the backs, that are quite invisible in their ‘natural’ state.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Pick A Word
Posted on March 4, 2025
This week, John at Journeys With Johnbo has challenged us to show three or four images united by the same one-word description or subject.
Okay then: how about ‘BEAKY’? All three pf these photographs were taken at the Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates. I give you, respectively, a duck, a pelican and a vulture.
Last Photo: Their day is done
Posted on March 2, 2025
I spotted these past-their-sell-by-date roses in the main (i.e. only) square of our nearest village.
Cellpic Sunday: Symmetry
Posted on March 2, 2025
The Pavillon du Verdurier is an exhibition space in the centre of Limoges. Obviously, people go to look at the exhibits (in this case quilts) but the building, especially the interior, is a work of art in itself.
This is a view from below of the elegantly decorated dome. The image has just been cropped and straightened: it really does look this pristine.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Bold
Posted on February 23, 2025
For this week’s challenge, Sofia at Photographias wants to see something bold. Although I only took this photograph last Thursday evening, it strikes me as a suitable response.
This is the Eglise Saint-Pierre-du-Queyroix in the centre of the city of Limoges. We were walking back from a restaurant to our hotel when I noticed how boldly the spire stood out from the night sky with that yellow hue from the sodium lights that illuminate it after dark.
Cellpic Sunday: Take It From The Top
Posted on February 23, 2025
This view from the top floor of the Centre Commercial Saint-Martial (it’s a shopping mall) in the city of Limoges struck me as interesting in an abstract yet also symmetrical – thanks to some judicious cropping – way.
Monochrome Madness – Hands
Posted on February 22, 2025
First contact: our twin grandsons were born very prematurely and spent some time in the ICU. This is Grandma getting her first touch.
(It all turned out fine – the twins will be eighteen this summer and they’re both well over six feet tall now: and fine young men to boot.)
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