Posted on June 4, 2021
This is not something you see every day. Unless you happened to be at the Festival of Roses in Douai La Fontaine a couple of years ago.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge 4 June 2021
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, deckchair, Roses
Posted on May 28, 2021
The keyword for Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is ‘five’.
The peerless Madame is the President of a local charity shop which sells – among many other things – clothes and shoes. So here are five shelves of shoes (and that’s a lot easier to read than to say).

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Five
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Five, Shelves, Shoes
Posted on May 21, 2021
Cee’s Black & White Challenge for this week is to show places to walk or hike. Out here in the French countryside the ‘proper’ roads are few and far between, but there are many mysterious-looking tracks, used only for farmers’ access, that are well worth exploring on a country walk.
In this case, I particularly liked the strong shadows of the trees across the path, which look almost like railway sleepers as they recede into the distance .

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Places to walk or hike
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Roads, Rural
Posted on May 15, 2021
I was struck by the incongruity of the balcony plonked in the middle of this house in the village of Lesterps.

Posted on April 30, 2021
This little set of square steps in Perigueux used to lead somewhere. Probably.

Posted on April 24, 2021
If you grow up in the countryside, chances are that you’ll be playing with country toys….
….and when you don’t play with them any more, you collect them..

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Toys
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Farming, Rural, Toys
Posted on April 16, 2021
Smaller than a breadbin (as per Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week).? Most definitely.
I took this photo with my smartphone, then applied the ‘Pinhole Camera’ filter in Photoshop Express for added interest.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Smaller than a breadbin
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Dice, Photoshop, Smaller than a breadbin
Posted on April 9, 2021
I was surprised to find this model boat at an airshow, of all places. I may never look at Popeye in the same light again.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Begins with B or W
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, boats, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Popeye
Posted on April 2, 2021
For her Black & White Challenge this week, Cee is looking for something that would be found on a picnic table or in a park.
This – sitting on our picnic table – is the rather nifty spatula from our set of barbecue tools.

Posted on March 26, 2021
This mosaic floor is just a small part of the rich decorations of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Triangles, Diamonds or Squares