Lens-Artists Challenge: Bars

Posted on July 3, 2026

I spy, with my photographer’s eye, something beginning with ‘B’. Which is fortunate, because that’s the subject of this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge.

More specifically, I’ve gone with this image of a heavily barred window in what is clearly an abandoned building ,which I doubt would be worth the effort for anyone to try and break into.

(For good measure, this is to be found in the nearby village of Bussière-Poitevine.)

Lens-Artists Challenge: Begins with ‘B’

Category: Composition Tagged: Abandoned, bars, begins with B, Lens-Artists, Texture, window

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Lens-Artists Challenge: Zoo

Posted on February 18, 2025

This week’s challenge is to choose ‘only one picture’. This is something I usually do anyway, thanks to a combination of parsimony and idleness.

Mostly, I just take photographs of things that strike me as interesting or aesthetically pleasing – like most photographers, I suspect.

However, if there is one image in my library that has stayed in my mind in the (many) years since I took it, it’s this image of a caged young chimpanzee in the Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates. There’s no suggestion that it was being ill-treated, but it looks pretty traumatised to me, and it does raise fundamental questions about the ethics of zoos.