Tuesday Photo Challenge: Rectangles
Posted on July 30, 2019
Detail from the roof of a contemporary building in the Manarat al Saadiyat cultural district of Abu Dhabi.
Box Kite
Posted on July 26, 2019
Cee’s theme for her Black & White Challenge this week is ‘anything that flies’.
That would certainly include this elaborate box kite, seen at the annual ‘Estevol’ air show at nearby Blond.
Thursday Doors: Azay-Le-Ferron
Posted on July 26, 2019
Earlier this summer we went on a coach trip which included a visit to the Chateau at Azay-Le-Ferron, in central France. Dating back in parts to the 13th century, it is a pretty impressive edifice and, as you would expect, it’s got some rather interesting doors.
Note the date on this first example: 1302.
The family who lived here for centuries were very keen on what we’d today describe as ‘blood sports’, as illustrated here:
Over the centuries, the original building has been modified and extended, so not all the doors ‘match’:
Even the gateway to the extensive ornamental gardens has some character:
And the church just outside the gates doesn’t stint on the architecture:
Thursday Doors 25 July 2019
Nobody’s listening to you…
Posted on July 24, 2019
I saw this group of flamingos on the water in a wildlife park. The isolated bird seems to be haranguing the rest of the group, who are taking not a blind bit of notice.
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!’
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