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The stash
Posted on May 26, 2025
A bit late with this one, but I noticed that Dan’s CFFC challenge last week called for images of things made with fabric.
Now, Madame is a very keen quilter and as any quilter will tell you, you can never have enough fabric in what’s known as your ‘stash’.
So here’s a photo of one of many cupboards (thank you IKEA) that hold her stash. What you see here is, at a rough guess, about 25% of the total. A friend once remarked that this wasn’t so much a stash as a ‘facility’.
Stacked
Posted on September 24, 2024
There’s a long-running saga about a pallet-full of old roof tiles that our builders have ‘parked’ with us temporarily for about the past ten years. To be fair, they have used some of them to repair a couple of minor leaks that sprang up during this period, but there are still plenty hanging around.
A vertigo-inducing floor
Posted on September 18, 2024
This is a detail of a very extensive marble floor, to be found in Compton Verney House, in Warwickshire, in the English midlands.
(For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Diagonal Lines)
Rural layers
Posted on September 11, 2024
This image, captured in a rural area of north Yorkshire, not only pays due deference to the ‘rule of thirds’, but also meets the brief of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week:
Reach for the sky
Posted on September 7, 2024
Another dramatic image of the ceiling of Beverley Minster.
Dizzying
Posted on August 28, 2024
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week calls for images of squares and/or rectangles.
This trompe l’oeil image is, in fact, a section of a tiled floor in Beverley Minster. The 3D effect is quite something.
From the shadows
Posted on August 21, 2024
Great to see that Cee is feeling well enough to resurrect some of her challenges – they’ve been greatly missed. More importantly, so has Cee herself: welcome back.
This is a flower we’ve had growing in one of our raised beds for a long time. I was particularly attracted by the long shadows, which give some extra depth to the image.
“Mud, mud, (in)glorious Mud”
Posted on May 22, 2024
Brits of a certain (advanced) age may recognise the title of this post as being inspired by ‘The Hippopotamus Song’ by Flanders and Swan.
No hippos here in France, but there has been an inordinate amount of rain over the past couple of months, which has left the little chemin down the side of our house in this shockingly muddy condition. Not just a dirt road but a dirt driveway.
Perspective: Compression
Posted on March 12, 2024
I took this photo a few years ago on a coach trip to the town of Pompadour (home of the French National Stud). There’s an extravagantly-decorated chapel (The Chapel of St Blaise) in a nearby village and while inside I pointed my camera through the open door.
It looks almost like a framed two-dimensional picture, but the optical effect of using a long lens compresses the perspective so that in fact there are at least four ‘planes’ in the image. Beyond the door there are two unseen sidewalks and a road before you get to the steps, at the top of which is a narrow terrace before you get to the wall and the front door.
Near Neighbours
Posted on March 5, 2024
The houses themselves aren’t visible from the street (in Saint-Junien) but they’re obviously close to each other.
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