Outside the Notaire’s
Posted on October 23, 2019
These brass plaques can be seen outside the offices of Notaires (public notaries) all over France. However, they’re not all as aesthetically framed against a rough-cast wall as this one, in Confolens.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sunset
Posted on October 22, 2019
This giraffe in the game reservation on Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi has no idea that the setting sun makes it look like it’s wearing a golden crown.
Monday Window: Old barn at Asniers
Posted on October 21, 2019
My contribution to #MondayWindow this week is a now bricked-up little window in an old barn in the nearby village of Asniers. Originally, this would have provided light and ventilation for the livestock kept within, but in all likelihood this barn (like ours) is now only used for storage.
Monday Window 21 October 2019
Floored Genius
Posted on October 18, 2019
Cee’s theme for hew Black & White Challenge this week is ‘Walkways, Hallways and Elevators’. This may be stretching a point, but this complex geometric pattern of wood inlay is on the floor of what could be described as a hallway in the Chateau at Azay-Le-Ferron. It’s impressive enough in real life but is even more striking in monochrome.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Walkways, Hallways and Elevators
Thursday Doors: Chabanais – the old railway station
Posted on October 17, 2019
I recently revisited the town of Chabanais in the Charente departement. There have been a few posts of doors from there in past years, but – to my pleasant surprise – this time I found, by striking out in a different direction, previously unexplored areas with plenty to offer fro this weekly challenge.
I didn’t even know that Chabanais had a gâre – railway station. Well it does, although it doesn’t actually have any trains: the replacement buses leave from just outside.
With the station building itself now permanently closed, the exterior is starting to show the signs of neglect…
…even those on the more sheltered side:
Thursday Doors 17 October 2019
Abandoned Railway, Chabanais
Posted on October 16, 2019
On a heavily overcast day there’s more than a touch of gloomy sadness about the now unused railway lines that run through the town of Chabanais.
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Back Catalog(ue)
Posted on October 15, 2019
A very interesting challenge from Frank this week. He invites us to go to our back catalog(ue) and take a new look at an old image – probably something we could all benefit from doing more often.
This is part of the exterior of a hotel on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The original – reproduced in the smaller photo below – is pretty ho-hum: no doubt why I’ve never done anything with it. However, after some cropping and ‘popping’ in Lightroom post-processing it becomes a more striking abstract geometric composition.
Monday Window: The Church at St-Martial-sur-Isop
Posted on October 14, 2019
I’ve just heard about the #MondayWindow challenge that’s being hosted by Ludwig Keck.
Here is my initial contribution – a stained glass window high up on the wall of the old church in the nearby village of Saint-Martial-sur-Isop.
Formal Gardens at Chateau Azay-le-Ferron
Posted on October 11, 2019
Thursday Doors: Bussiere-Poitevine (5 – and final)
Posted on October 10, 2019
This week, we have a final instalment of doors from the nearby village of Bussière-Poitevine.
Particularly notable in this first example is the characteristic Limousin sink on the right: a common feature of many old buildings around here. In fact we have a couple ourselves.
This is on the main road that runs through the village. It looks like it used to be a shop of some kind, although it’s looked like this for as long as we’ve been coming here (so over fifteen years). The only things you’re likely to see in that window nowadays is a selection of cats.
An equally neglected set of doors (a former workshop?):
In rather better fettle. Note the old postbox:
Just your average green door:
And finally a shout-out to the charity shop where Madame volunteers. I can attest to the quality of the cakes sold in the café – Madame makes a lot of them.
Thursday Doors 10 October 2019
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