Posted on September 14, 2025
A dramatic cloud formation from one morning earlier this week.

Cellpic Sunday 14 September 2025
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, Clouds, cloudscape, mackerel sky
Posted on September 7, 2025
Earlier this summer, we took the ferry from Caen to Portsmouth (and very good it was too). Looking back at the boat’s wash as the French coast was about to disappear over the horizon, it struck me that it made an excellent leading line.

Cellpic Sunday 7 September 2025
Category: Composition Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Boat, Cellpic Sunday, coastline, Ferry, Horizon, Leading Lines, seascape, wash
Posted on August 31, 2025
No, this is NOT a selfie.

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, garden furniture, Gorillas, Humor, Humour, plaster
Posted on August 17, 2025
When this petrol pump was new – perhaps a century or more ago – it could well have serviced the fuel requirements of the Yorkshire town of Beverley on its own. Nowadays of course, it’s simply an historical curio.

Category: Autrefois Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Beverley, Cellpic Sunday, Petrol Pump, Red, vintage
Posted on July 20, 2025
…Madame makes a delicious cheesecake.

Category: Composition Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, cheesecake, lemons, Reflections
Posted on July 13, 2025
The photographer’s dream scenario: a leading line, reflections and red foreground objects. An idyllic summer’s day on the River Creuse at Crozant.

Category: Composition, Landscape Tagged: #cellpicsunday, canoes, Cellpic Sunday, Crozant, foreground object, Landscape, Leading Lines, Red, Reflections
Posted on June 22, 2025
This, I am reliably informed, is an Agapanthus – originally from southern Africa but – in this particular instance – now residing in one of our newly-created flowerbeds.

Category: Flowers Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Agapanthus, Cellpic Sunday, Flowers, Perspective
Posted on June 15, 2025
We use this salt jar to store our fresh garlic, but the bulb of purple garlic was way too big to fit inside in one piece.

Category: Texture Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, Close-up, Garlic, Purple, Texture
Posted on June 1, 2025
Madame loves peonies – especially pink ones. Over the years we haven’t had consistent success with growing them, but this year there was a bumper crop.

Category: Flowers Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, Peony, Pink
Posted on May 25, 2025
When half of the sky is bright sunshine and the other half has black clouds tipping it down, this is what you get (arc-en-ciel is the French word for a rainbow).

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, rainbow