Roses In Decline

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Madame’s very lovely Mothers’ Day bouquet, two weeks on.

(An experiment with the HDR function of my new phone camera app).

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rusty or decayed

An Owl In The Hand..

An owl perches on a gauntlet at a birds of prey display in St-Germain de Confolens.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds

I’ve Had A Bucketful

Our grandson really needs to cut down on his drinking…..

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pail or pale

Hole In The Wall

Is a window without a pane really anything more than just a hole in the wall?

A bird resting in the fort of the Hili Oasis, near Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hole or Whole

The Hungry Elephant

A hungry (when are they not?) young elephant at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Ate or Eight

Between The Branches

The moss on this tree looks like an aerial view of a rain forest until the bark of the tree on which it’s growing puts it into the correct context.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark

Reedy

These exceptionally – almost surreally – long reeds can be found on the bed of the River Indre as it flows through the town of Loches in central France.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Reed, read, red

Dinosaur

No, not me.

For her Fun Foto Challenge this week, Cee wants images of non-alive animals.

Even if this used to be a real animal it would have been dead for millions of year. It’s a head-on view of a model Tyrannosaurus Rex which can be found at the Paleopolis theme park in the Auvergne region.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Animals

The bull-necked giraffe

It’s not really bull-necked, of course: an optical illusion caused by use of a telephoto lens.

However, the natural pattern of the giraffe’s hide is very characteristic.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns In Nature

Urban Erosion: St-Junien

An all-too common sight in the old centres of so many towns in rural France that don’t benefit from any significant levels of tourism.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 13 January 2021