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52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 26 – Stranger
Posted on February 7, 2017
This chap, spotted at the La Sagna Hippodrome (racecourse) was a keen racegoer, to judge from the many old admission tickets hanging around his neck and the racecard he’s holding in his hand.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 26 – Stranger
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 25 – Textures
Posted on January 30, 2017
Textures of wood, stone and metal on this disused well-head in the medieval centre of the town of Loches.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 52 – Textures
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 24 – Light
Posted on January 24, 2017
This week the challenge is to provide an image using light (wouldn’t be much of an image without it, I have to say) but not sunlight.
This photograph was taken from a boat making an evening cruise along the Corniche in Abu Dhabi, just before we left there and moved to France. It was well after sunset, so all the light is man-made.
I used to work on the 23rd Floor of the left hand tower of the featured building. My office had a glass exterior wall, so the view was quite spectacular.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 24 – Light
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 23 – Trees
Posted on January 16, 2017
On a clear and frosty morning, the sun shines through the line of oak trees that borders one of our fields.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 22 – Nature
Posted on January 9, 2017
The 52 Week Photo Challenge is back after its brief year-end hiatus and the topic for Week 22 is ‘Nature’. That’s certainly something that leaves plenty of scope, but I decided to go with something that’s typical for the time of year.
This is a detail from one of the oak trees in my fields. We are in the depths of winter, so obviously last year’s leaves are dead, but at the same time you can see the buds that will produce new leaves when spring arrives.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 21 – Peaceful
Posted on December 31, 2016
For this week’s instalment of the 52 Week Photo Challenge, The Girl That Dreams Awake has chosen the theme of ‘Peaceful’.
Her own interpretation is an image of a pile of books and that inspired me to dig out this photograph, which I took a few years ago somewhere around Sydney. What could be more peaceful than sitting quietly in the sunshine by the waterside and reading a book?
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 18 – Freedom
Posted on December 5, 2016
This week’s theme of ‘Freedom’ is encapsulated, I think, in this image of my grandson on a zipline in the play area of the Beecraigs Country Park just outside Linlithgow in Scotland. He was happy to be doing it and I was happy that my attempt at a panning shot, blurring the background (a little), kind of worked.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 18 – Freedom
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 17 – Laughter
Posted on November 29, 2016
‘Laughter’ is the theme for this week’s challenge hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake.
A game of peek-a-boo is guaranteed to produce laughter in a two year old. This photograph of one of my grandsons comes with free reflection.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 16 – Christmas
Posted on November 22, 2016
Yes it does seem a bit too early to be posting Christmas images, but it’s The Girl That Dreams Awake’s challenge, so who am I to argue? (Except with the numbering: this is Week 16, not 15.)
Anyway, here are some photogenic pine cones from the roadside about a mile down the road from here.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 15 – Soft
Posted on November 14, 2016
The wool of the alpaca is well known for its exceptional softness – and sells at a premium that reflects this. Although this individual had just been sheared earlier this year, its topknot gives a good idea of the texture of its coat.
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