Barrel Ceiling

Last Friday evening, Madame and I had dinner at a rather nice (and nicely unpretentious) bistro in Paris.

I noticed that the ceiling was quite unusual, so captured an image of it using the ‘selfie’ camera on my iPhone.

The Last Photo February 2024

The old range

This big old open range was in the kitchen of a house in France that we looked at as a possible purchase, before settling on what was to become Brokedown Palace.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Basically one colour

Tuesdays of Texture: Shoddy workmanship

After last week’s illustration of the high craft of the stonemason, here is a much shoddier example of building work, from a bricked-up doorway in the town of St. Junien.

bricks

Tuesdays of Texture

Mundane? The New Frames The Old

Another entry for the Mundane Mondays challenge hosted by PhoTrablogger.

Close to Circular Quay, in the heart of Sydney, you can still see some of the original stone that must have welcomed the First Fleet, although most is now concealed behind more modern brickwork:

circular-quay