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Lens-Artists Challenge – Last Chance
Posted on December 18, 2023
Since I’m fairly new to the Lens-Artists Challenge, finding an image that I haven’t already used for it this year wasn’t really a problem. In fact, I haven’t posted this image anywhere before, although since I took it in August I’ve been itching for an excuse to put it in a post.
It was taken at a kiddies’ playground near my son’s home in Oxfordshire. Our two-year old grand-daughter gets taken there quite often. so will definitely have crawled through this tunnel many times.
Return of the orange poppies
Posted on May 31, 2023
They’re back. Not so many as yet this year, but still providing a vibrant splash of colour.
Colours by the bucketful
Posted on March 12, 2022
An arresting and very colourful display of….er, buckets, outside a shop in St Andrews.
Swatters
Posted on February 4, 2022
A close-up look at a small sample of our collection of colourful fly swatters. Hopefully, the fly gets an even closer view – although they usually get away.
The Lizard
Posted on October 19, 2021
I discovered this tiny and very squiggly lizard when I was covering up our garden furniture for the winter. There are lizards everywhere around here but they are typically no more than three inches long and find homes in the stonework of walls and so on. They pose no threat – indeed, they feed on insects that would otherwise attack our plants, so they’re actually quite a boon.
This particular specimen, no more than an inch and a half long, was especially colourful.
Illuminated
Posted on September 23, 2020
The iconic – and eye-wateringly expensive – Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai is lit up at night.
Not your average windsock
Posted on January 30, 2019
For this week’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge, Cee wants to see at least four colours of the rainbow. This windsock with a full rainbow of colours was seen at the annual Air Show at nearby Blond.
A double helping of biscuits
Posted on January 9, 2019
Based in Nantes, the French biscuit manufacturers Lu (Lefevre Utile) are long-established and happily still producing, even if not in their original factory. Their ‘petits écoliers’ chocolate biscuits – especially the plain chocolate version – cannot be recommended too highly.
Apart from the product itself, Lu’s publicity material is also iconic. This image is of a pair of their advertising signs from around the turn of the last century, and was taken in the Chateau des Ducs museum in Nantes.
The Moto Guzzi
Posted on December 27, 2018
This unusually colourful classic Italian motorcycle fits well for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Colourful
Posted on June 30, 2018
A colourful sample of the wild flowers mix that we sowed last year.
(Late this week; traveling)
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