Posted on September 30, 2020
The bar at the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. Life is hard sometimes…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors & Windows
Category: Travel, Windows Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Doors, Sir Bani Yas, Sir Bani Yas Hotel, Windows
Posted on September 23, 2020
The iconic – and eye-wateringly expensive – Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai is lit up at night.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful buildings
Category: Travel Tagged: Architecture, Buildings, Burj al Arab, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Colourful, Dubai
Posted on September 2, 2020
The Auberge Cheval Blanc stands at the main crossroads in the nearby town of Bellac.
For the avoidance of doubt, the horse looking out of the window isn’t real.
Then again, neither is the window….
(P.S. I’m taking it that the restaurant is being run as a commercial enterprise)

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Commercial premises
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Bellac, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Cheval Blanc, restaurant, Shopfront, trompe l'oeil
Posted on August 26, 2020
Last week, Cee wanted images of old buildings; this time it’s modern homes. I stayed (relatively) local for the old buildings – being pretty much surrounded by them in this part of France, quite apart from actually living in one myself.
Of course there are modern homes here too, but most of them are just not very interesting to look at. Whereas in Dubai pretty much everything is modern and a lot of it is architecturally noteworthy. This is the Pearl Resdence, one of the almost literally countless residential apartment blocks in the city. That’s another one reflected in its plate glass frontage.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Modern Homes
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Architecture, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Dubai, homes, Reflections
Posted on August 20, 2020
Look out from the glass-walled lift that’s installed in the church tower of the medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and old buildings is just about all you get.

Posted on August 12, 2020
Fallen oak leaves lie in the frosty grass.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 12 August 2020
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Frost, leaves, Winter
Posted on August 5, 2020
At this time of year In Abu Dhabi, it’s way too hot to spend much time on the beach or in the water, so these colourful pedalos find themselves beached for the duration.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything Bicycles or Tricycles
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, beach, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Pedalos
Posted on July 29, 2020
The trains no longer stop at Chabanais – indeed, the spur line is not used at all – so this array of signalling equipment is redundant.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: anything to do with trains
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Chabanais, railway station, signal equipment, trains and tracks
Posted on July 22, 2020
A stunt aeroplane goes through its aerobatic paces at the annual (but not this year, obviously) Estevol air show at Blond.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Planes
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Aerobatics, Aeroplanes, Blond, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Clouds, Estevol
Posted on July 15, 2020
A couple of sailing boats in the picturesque harbour of Honfleur, at the mouth of the River Seine in Normandy.
