Posted on November 27, 2019
This black and white butterfly was happy to feast on the white buddleia bush that grows in our garden.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: White
Category: Flowers Tagged: Buddleia, Butterflies, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, White
Posted on October 9, 2019
Detail of the stopper of an antique coloured glass decanter, seen at an exhibition of old glassware and ceramics in our local village.

Posted in response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches
Posted on July 19, 2019
This grasshopper must have got blown off course, as it finds itself in the middle of an orange poppy in our garden.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close-up of flowers
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Grasshopper, Orange poppy
Posted on January 2, 2019
The plant kingdom is an obvious source of colourful monotones for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week, as demonstrated by this vibrant pink rose.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful monotone
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Roses
Posted on October 10, 2018
I used to be quite keen on chess – but that was over fifty years ago. Nowadays, although we do have a very nice chess set on display it very rarely gets used. I definitively gave up when my grandson – ten at the time – beat me comprehensively.

Cee’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge: Things People Play With
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Bishop, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, chess pieces, Close-up, Things people play with
Posted on May 25, 2018
It’s that time again…
Cee’s Black & White Challenge Theme this week is ‘flowers’, so here is an example from a mix of bee-friendly wild flowers that we sowed last year in one of our raised beds. In real life, it was an attractive shade of magenta, but the monochrome highlights the textures.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Flowers
Category: Black & White, Flowers Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Wild Flowers
Posted on May 4, 2018
Cee’s Black & White challenge this week is ‘Close-up’. That ‘s usually a cue for a tight shot of a flower, or maybe a creepy-crawly of some description. However, close-up doesn’t necessarily mean macro, just something that shows more detail than a standard image.
So this is not a macro photograph, but rather a detail from a tapestry in the Cité International de la Tapisserie museum in Aubusson. The monochrome treatment highlights the painstaking intricacy of the handwork that went into creating the overall image.

For reference, here is the colour version:

Posted on March 31, 2017
A close-up of the camera on my iPhone looks almost alien when taken out of context:

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge : I or J
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, camera, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Close-up, iPhone
Posted on December 14, 2016
I didn’t even notice the wasp until I’d downloaded this close-up image of a poppy onto my desk-top:

Nikon D800 with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 48mm. 1/125 at f8, ISO 100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments Week 22
Posted on June 4, 2016
The precision and detail of the carving on the capital of a marble column in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is clearly brought out in this monochrome close-up.
