Flower or firework?
Posted on December 28, 2019
Is it a flower? No: it’s a firework from the local National Day display last year.
Before the baling
Posted on December 28, 2019
Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge looks for some wavy or squiggly lines.
This image was captured about half a mile from our house, just after the first haymaking of the year had seen the grass cut, but not yet baled. Driving past in the car, I couldn’t help but notice the strong (but, crucially, not straight) leading lines in this field. We stopped, I jumped out and took the original photograph with my iPhone 7.
Monday Window – Azay-le-Ferron
Posted on December 23, 2019
Exceptionally rich colours in this stained glass window of the church in Azay-le-Ferron.
#MondayWindow 23 December 2019
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 2 – Rule of thirds
Posted on December 21, 2019
For the second week of his 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, Khurt is looking for an image that adheres to the classic compositional law, the so-called ‘rule of thirds’.
This photograph was taken from a holiday cottage in East Yorkshire, just outside the town of Beverley. The image is divided into thirds both horizontally and vertically. While the quality of the image isn’t that great (it was taken with my previous smartphone, an iPhone 6), I think the view is attractive and the composition is pleasing.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: Week 2
Memento Mori
Posted on December 20, 2019
In the village of Rancon there is to be found one of comparatively few remaining ‘Lanternes des Morts’. These were memorials to the dead, quite common in medieval times. In this sense such a Lanterne could be described as a memento mori – thereby meeting the theme of ‘two Ms’ for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
The old range
Posted on December 18, 2019
This big old open range was in the kitchen of a house in France that we looked at as a possible purchase, before settling on what was to become Brokedown Palace.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Common
Posted on December 17, 2019
Monday Window – Aubusson
Posted on December 16, 2019
I spotted this charming little window, with its photogenic freshly-painted shutters, in the town of Aubusson.
#MondayWindow 16 December 2019
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 1 – Self-portrait
Posted on December 14, 2019
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)
Posted on December 12, 2019
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
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