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Lens-Artists Challenge: Choose A Colour
Posted on May 20, 2026
For this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, set by Ritva, we’re asked to show an image that features, almost to the exclusion of all others, just one colour.
I went for blue, and chose this other-worldly photograph of a tank of jellyfish featured in the Aquarium of the city of La Rochelle.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Scavenger Hunt
Posted on September 2, 2025
For this week’s challenge Anne has given us what’s almost carte blanche effectively, with her theme of ‘scavenger hunt’, for which we’re invited to scour our archives (or take a new photo) for something that illustrates any of a long list of potential topics.
As it happens, I only needed to go back to last month for my contribution. This is a close-up of a pile of battered old wooden pallets – which I guess is where the ‘scavenger’ element comes in – that I spotted on the quayside at Scarborough, in Yorkshire.
There’s ‘rectangular’ and ‘bumpy texture’ from her list for starters, although at the time what really attracted me was the pleasing contrast between blue and orange (I haven’t tweaked the colour palette in any way at all).
The blue mural
Posted on December 17, 2023
This mural, made up of characteristically blue Portuguese tiles, is to be found in the Chateau de la Mercerie.
Blue Sky Thinking
Posted on November 11, 2021
The bluest of blue skies above the town of Perigueux.
This image has been cropped but is otherwise completely unretouched: the sky really was that blue.
Boy Blue
Posted on August 4, 2021
On a hot day in Dubai (in November!) the only thing to do is to jump in the swimming pool and cool off.
The Rusty Pram
Posted on April 14, 2021
The Fun Foto Challenge this week has the theme of ‘texture’. There’s lots of that in this battered old doll’s baby carriage, not to mention the concreted wall behind it and the gravel beneath.
Blue and Green Boats
Posted on February 11, 2021
Blue reflections
Posted on November 6, 2019
The glass walls of the pool produce the optical illusion that there are two performing seals earning their keep here at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/11/05/cees-fun-foto-challenge-blue/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Blue
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Blue
Posted on August 29, 2017
After last week’s theme of ‘pink’ it’s quite natural for Frank to set us the challenge of ‘Blue’ this week.
I hope this is blue enough for everyone. It’s a detail of the roof of what used to be called the Yas Hotel, on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi – just outside the Formula One racetrack. At night, the colours cycle through the spectrum, but I managed to catch it when it was at its bluest:
Macro Moments: Week 6
Posted on July 27, 2016
With an open topic for this week’s Macro Moments Challenge, I’ve chosen this image of a dragonfly feasting on a stem of tiger grass by our pond. Note the delicacy of the lace structure of the wings; there’s also some wear and tear on a couple of the blue plates that cover the abdomen.
Nikon D800, 70-200mm f2.8 lens at 200mm. 1/250 at f8, ISO400. Cropped and adjusted in Lightroom.
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