Posted on April 24, 2020
I’m always fascinated by the elegant geometry of spiral staircases.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, spiral, spiral staircase, Staircase
Posted on April 19, 2020
Something scary this way comes….

Category: Black & White Tagged: 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, Black & White, Insects, scary, Shadows
Posted on April 17, 2020
Double the boys, double the bubbles.
Posted in response to Cee’s Black & White Challenge looking for anything with double letters.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with double letters
Category: Black & White Tagged: Bathtime, Black & White, Bubbles, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Grandson
Posted on April 10, 2020
‘Anything with an engine’ is Cee’s topic for her Black & White Challenge this week. So here’s a light plane showing its paces at the annual ‘Estevol’ air show near Blond.
This is an image which works much better in monochrome than colour, thanks mainly to the enhanced contrast of the plane with those big clouds.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge 9 April 2020
Category: Black & White Tagged: Aeroplanes, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Clouds, Estevol
Posted on April 3, 2020
When we bought our ruin house, there was a deconstructed old cart in what we now call our ‘Salon’ but was then a dirt-floored room that had probably housed livestock back in the day.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wheels
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cartwheels, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Rural, sepia, Wheels
Posted on March 27, 2020
Cee’s topic this week is birds. As selective colour is permitted – and, I think, really works in this case – here is an owl (I’m afraid I cannot remember what kind).
The plumage is black and white in any case, so all I had to do was desaturate the greens in the background. Those orange irises are really very striking.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Birds
Category: Black & White Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Orange, Owl, selective colour
Posted on March 20, 2020
They like to keep themselves to themselves in Chabanais:

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences & Gates
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Chabanais, Fences, Gates
Posted on March 13, 2020
The bateaux mouches are the tourist boats that ply the River Seine in Paris. Business wasn’t so good on this particular day….

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Chairs and tables
Category: Black & White Tagged: bateau-mouche, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Paris, Seating
Posted on March 6, 2020
Down here in la France profonde, the more common causes of circulation perturbée (traffic problems) – such as roadworks or a jack-knifed lorry – are just as likely to be supplemented by finding yourself on a country road behind a local farmer in the process of moving his flock of sheep from one field to another.
The ubiquitous white van is the modern-day sheepdog.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: must end in ‘ock’
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Flock, Roads, Rural, Sheep
Posted on February 28, 2020
Well, if it’s not actually raining, it soon will be….

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Clouds
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Clouds, Rain Clouds