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Locked
Posted on July 15, 2016
This modern lock secures the carved wooden door of an old building in the al-Bastakiya heritage area of old Dubai.
Blast from the past
Posted on July 1, 2016
This week’s topic for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is signs, and more specifically store signs. So what could be more appropriate than this example, which still hangs outside what used to be called the ‘Phot-Office’ (geddit?) in Montrol-Sénard.
If nothing else, it should remind us all to be grateful for the invention of digital cameras.
Rosebud
Posted on June 23, 2016
Usually, the point about flowers is the colour, but this monochrome image of a rosebud (taken at Chédigny) highlights the intricately furled petals.
Playing in cars
Posted on June 17, 2016
What tw0 year-old wouldn’t enjoy playing in a proper grown-up car? Under supervision, of course.
Steps in sepia
Posted on June 10, 2016
Sepia seems to me to work better than conventional black & white in these pictures: the first of an old set of steps leading up to a cobbled square in the town of Saint-Emilion in the Bordeaux region:
and this from Montrol-Sénard:
Capital carving close-up
Posted on June 4, 2016
The precision and detail of the carving on the capital of a marble column in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is clearly brought out in this monochrome close-up.
Backwards in time
Posted on May 27, 2016
An open topic for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week gives me an excuse to post this image.
It was taken in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, which is housed in a former mainline railway station. This is the inside of the clock tower. I was praying that everybody else would get out of the shot before this gentleman decided to move on and spoil the composition.
This is what it looks like from the outside:
Obviously a French water buffalo…
Posted on May 20, 2016
Chiropodist needed….
Posted on May 13, 2016
Recently, we went to watch some alpacas being sheared. These are the feet of one after it had also had its toenails clipped…
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Feet
The irascible ostrich
Posted on May 6, 2016
Some animals are really cute. And then there are ostriches…
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