Looking down on the tourists
Posted on July 23, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week is ‘sculpture’. I certainly have no shortage of images to choose from to fit in with that, but I decided to go with this close-up from Barzaghi’s 1882 ‘Monument to Nicoló Tommaseo’, who looks down on the passing hordes with faint amusement from his plinth in Campo Santo Stefano in Venice. The detail is extraordinary.
Shoes from another lifetime
Posted on July 20, 2019
Cee’s theme for this week’s Black & White Photo Challenge is footwear and that immediately made me think of my favourite pair of shoes back when I was plying my trade as an investment banker and fund manager.
Nowadays, you’re far more likely to find me in a pair of Birkenstock sandals or some ultra-comfy Dr Martens casuals rather than ‘business attire’, but I still have a soft spot for these loafers that I bought almost twenty five years ago. Indeed, I wrote a post on my other blog about them a while back.
Thursday Doors: Le Dorat
Posted on July 19, 2019
This week, a final selection of doors from nearby Le Dorat and we’re back in our comfort zone with some gloriously tatty examples.
This is probably the pick of the bunch – no doubt a shop way back in the mists of time:
More abandoned examples:
These next two come with ‘matching’ shutters:
And finally, almost covered in foliage:
Thursday Doors 18 July 2019
The confused grasshopper
Posted on July 19, 2019
This grasshopper must have got blown off course, as it finds itself in the middle of an orange poppy in our garden.
Thursday Doors: Le Dorat – Celebrating The Mondial
Posted on July 11, 2019
Last week I promised more doors from Le Dorat, but with a bit of a twist, so here we have it.
Last weekend, the nearby town (although it prefers to think of itself as a petit cité) of Le Dorat played host to the world sheep-shearing championships. It may well have passed you by, since France was also at the same time the venue of the FIFA Women’s Football World Cup, but it was a big thing round these parts, where the sheep comfortably outnumber the human population.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get to the event itself, but a few weeks earlier I paid a visit to Le Dorat to take a look at some of the celebratory artwork that was appearing on shop windows and shop doors in anticipation.
To begin with, some double shopfronts, starting with the local kebab shop:
Rather more upmarket, there was the Traiteur (that’s a deli to the likes of us):
And I can’t recall what this was:
For the next two, you’ll just have to take my word that they are on doors – of, respectively, the bank and an insurance broker:
All very impressive, but it was nice to see that even some more traditional doors were getting into the spirit (even if only by association):
Thursday Doors 11 July 2019
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wall
Posted on July 9, 2019
I can think pf quite a few people who would find the closeness of the walls in this old house in Perigueux rather unsettling.
Posted for the Tuesday Photo Challenge run by Frank at ‘Dutch Goes The Photo!’
Thursday Doors: Le Dorat revisited
Posted on July 4, 2019
The petit cité de caractère (as it likes to style itself) of Le Dorat has featured in this thread before, albeit only once and that almost three years ago. A recent visit – for a specific purpose that will be revealed next week – yielded quite a few previously undiscovered doors of character, starting with this impressive ironwork on the door of a butcher’s shop:
Echoing this style is the door….er, next door:
Two doors for the price of one next, although the impressive stonework surround gives the edge to the one on the right:
And here’s another with an even more elaborate surround:
But before we get carried away with ideas of grandeur, here are a couple of doors that could be politely described as derelict:
Thursday Doors 4 July 2019
Stall #25
Posted on July 4, 2019
Stall #25 in one of the stables at the French National Stud in Pompadour looks just like this~:
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Outdoors
Posted on July 3, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge is ‘Outdoors’.
In the broadest terms, I suppose that any image that wasn’t actually captured in an interior would qualify. However, in this shot – another from Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi – I’ve gone for more of a ‘great outdoors’ feel, which is certainly enhanced by the moon hanging over the landscape.
Three windows
Posted on June 26, 2019
While in the great cathedral of Cahors, my eye was drawn to these three stained glass windows and their juxtaposition with the curve of the dome
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