52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 1 – Self-portrait

Khurt Williams at islandinthenet.com is starting a new 52 Week Smartphone Photography, and with the best of intentions I’ve decided to give it a go.

The topic for the first week is the intriguing one of taking a self-portrait “that tells us who you are, without actually showing your face.’

This photo was taken with my iPhone 7 (as I expect most future ones will be) and I think pretty much defines me.

Certainly it reveals where I spend a probably disproportionate part of my time: at my (distressingly untidy) desk. All the key elements are here:

  • the iPad from which I have to be surgically removed
  • my Mac desktop – open at my WordPress photo library, of course
  • various Grateful Dead paraphernalia
  • a pair of Bluetooth earphones
  • and a poster of the greatest football team in the history of all known universes.

52 Week Smartphone Challenge 1

Thursday Doors: Chabanais (the gift that keeps on giving)

And still they keep coming….

This church in the centre of town has an imposing doorway, even though the building itself is not – like most churches  – free standing

You don’t see that many doors set into a corner, but here’s one:

A couple of doors with their accompanying shutters; the second looks particularly tired:

Another uncared for example

But to end on a more positive – i.e. better preserved – note:

Thursday Doors 12 December 2019

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Mist

Frank’s theme for this week is ‘Mist’. This shot of my fields, as dawn breaks, could be seen as the companion to this one, taken a minute or so earlier

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Mist

Colourful

This week’s theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is ‘Vibrant’. Well how about this windcatcher, seen at the Blond airshow a couple of years ago?

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant

Monday Window – Chauvigny

This ‘secular’ stained glass window clearly isn’t contemporary with the medieval church in Chauvigny where it can be found – but that doesn’t make it a bad thing.

#MondayWindow 9 December 2019

Thursday Doors: (still) Chabanais

We’re not quite done with the doors of Chabanais just yet.

To begin with, an empty shop premises that unaccountably got overlooked for the specfic post that featured those all too common doors. This must have been the local equivalent of Blockbuster:

Also featuring two doors this week, although with contrasting fortunes:

A couple of examples of doors with their surrounding shutters, the first in rather better nick than the second:

This door too might have once graced a shop, to judge from the window:

And it looks like all this door wants to do is sit in the corner and be left alone:

Thursday Doors 5 December 2019

Autumn sunrise

The soft colours of an autumn sunrise over our fields fits the brief for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pastel/Soft Colours

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Glow

The interiors of many old churches can be rather cold and austere, with great slabs of now-bare stonework. Not so the medieval church in the town of Chauvigny, especially with the warming glow of the sun shining through stained glass windows.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Glow

Monday Window – Venice

An impressive array of windows on the upper floor of this palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice.

#MondayWindow 2 December 2019

A working environment

Back to a previous life this week for Cee’s Black $ White Photo Challenge with the topic of Doors and Drawers.

This was my office on the twenty-third floor of the headquarters of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, where I spent the last – and best – ten years of my working life. That’s the door on the right and obviously those are drawers underneath the desktop.

What I can’t get over is how tidy it was. My desk at home is an absolute tip.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge : Doors & Drawers