Posted on July 17, 2018
I couldn’t help but be struck by the vibrant colours of this slide in a childrens’ playground in Abu Dhabi.

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu, colours, fpj-photo-challenge, Play, playground, slide, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on April 26, 2017
This week’s Tuesday Challenge on Dutch Goes The Photo! was to post an image containing the three key photographic colours of red, green and blue. Simple enough, you might think but although I have lots of shots with two out of the three, there weren’t so many that included all of them.
However, I found this: it’s a windsock at a small local airfield that has an annual summer air show. As you can see from the bend of the pole to which it is attached, it was quite a windy day, but a fast exposure (1/750) effectively froze the movement to reveal all the colours.

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Air Show, Colourful, colours, fpj-photo-challenge, windsock
Posted on February 27, 2017
The colours in this stained glass window in the cathedral at Chartres are truly stunning:

52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 29 – Beautiful Colours
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Beautiful Colours, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, colours, Stained Glass
Posted on February 9, 2017
Last week’s initial instalment of the doors of St Junien were, with one exception, a pretty drab bunch (unless you happen to be a big fan of brown, of course), so this week I thought I’d feature some more colourful examples:

Even if the colour isn’t necessarily to your taste, someone is clearly making an effort…

…no matter how narrow the door you have to work with:

Next, a couple of more faded examples:


And just for a change, to finish this week a set of gates:

Thursday Doors 9 February 2017
Posted on December 5, 2016
Another entry for Mundane Mondays hosted by PhoTrablogger. I took this photograph a few years ago in Abu Dhabi. At the entrancee to a building site on one of the back roads close to where we lived, this otherwise nondescript hut had been cobbled together from odd pieces of plywood and corrugated iron. They obviously didn’t do Portakabins.

Mundane Monday
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, colours, Geometric shape, Mundane, Mundane Monday
Posted on October 25, 2016
At first glance, this wall in Venice looks to be covered in graffiti. However, a closer look reveals that what we actually have here are mosaics:

Posted on April 19, 2016
We’re having what the French call a pause pour reflexion in Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge this time around. A time to think about the ground we’ve covered already and also an opportunity to show some images that didn’t quite make the cut for posting under the various topics that we’ve dealt with in the past months. Here’s a selection of mine:
Perspective
Now, what is this a picture of? Is it the building on the right (the apartment block in Abu Dhabi where we lived for ten years)? Or is it the glass-plated building on the left? Or perhaps it’s the reflection of the former in the latter?

Diagonal Lines
I used an image of two giraffes in my first posting on the topic of diagonal lines, but I could equally have used this profile of a horse – one of many in the fields around here.

Now two images that cover more than one aspect of the various topics we’ve looked at so far:
Leading Lines & Analogous Colours
A hillside vineyard near the village of Ay, in the Champagne region shows blue and green together, as well as leading lines

Geometry and Contrasting Colours
Orange and blue dominate this image of a seal at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Obviously the balanced ball is one geometric shape but the curve of the seal’s body is like an arc of a circle.

Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Australia, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, colours, Composition, France, Geometry, Horse, Reflections, Seals, Taronga Zoo
Posted on March 1, 2016
The latest instalment in this thread calls for examples of analogous colours – in other words, ones that are adjacent on the colour wheel:

The most common mnemonic to help with remembering the ‘proper’ sequence of colours in the spectrum is ‘ROYGBIV’: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Here are some images that put together good neighbours.
OYG
Two examples here: a flower from Monet’s Garden in Giverny and a selection of flowering courgettes from the Rialto Market in Venice
GB
A bright blue dragonfly on a green leaf (from my garden pond)

BIV
My grandson sitting at the top of a slide at his pirate-themed second birthday party

IVR
Finally, this is an electronic display in The Mall of The Emirates in Dubai. The colours actually cycle through the whole spectrum

Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Complimentary Colours
Category: Composition Tagged: Analogous colours, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, Colour Wheel, colours, Dragonflies, Dubai, Flowers, Monet's Garden, Roygbiv
Posted on February 19, 2016
I took this photograph of an upturned boat at Watson’s Bay, near Sydney. It was a bit of a snatched shot and while the subject is interesting, it’s a little frustrating because I didn’t capture the entire boat, cutting off the prow (at the bottom of the image) and the sides. Furthermore, the horizon (waterline) isn’t straight and the colours are rather bleached – partly because it’s a pretty weatherbeaten vessel in the first place and also because it was taken around noon – so I was probably on my way to lunch, which probably explains why it was a snatched shot.
Before

After

I cropped out most of the boat, the shoreline and the surrounding sand, and also added a light Vignette. This brought the real interest, the bottom of the boat, and especially the ‘trident’ effect of the struts, properly to the fore.
This produced an almost abstract feel, which was reinforced largely by reducing the Luminance and modestly tweaking the Saturation of the key colours, blue and orange
Category: Composition Tagged: ABFriday, boats, colours, Editing, Sydney, Watson's Bay
Posted on February 15, 2016
Cee’s Composition Challenge has now moved on to colour basics (I’m sorry; I just can’t bring myself to spell colour without the ‘u’), beginning with the difference between the warm and cool ends of the spectrum.
Cool
To begin with, two cool images from the United Arab Emirates; on the left, a mosaic ceiling panel from Wafi Mall in Dubai, while on the right is part of the landmark blue glass-plated façade of the Bainunah Hilton on the Corniche in Abu Dhabi.
Warm
By contrast, two notably warmer images: on the left, my grandson crawling through a brightly coloured tunnel in a childrens’ playground in Abu Dhabi. On the right a bunch of flowers from a table in the music room of Chateau d’Amboise.
Finally, two pictures, one warm and one cool. These were taken at the entrance to a cafe in a shopping mall near Circular Quay in Sydney. They are two individual images, as shot, illustrating that the same view of the same subject could be either warm or cool, depending on the light.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Color (sic) Basics
Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, colours, Cool, Dubai, Sydney, Wafi Mall, Warm