Posted on March 4, 2025
This week, John at Journeys With Johnbo has challenged us to show three or four images united by the same one-word description or subject.
Okay then: how about ‘BEAKY’? All three pf these photographs were taken at the Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates. I give you, respectively, a duck, a pelican and a vulture.



Lens-Artists Challenge: Pick A Word
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Al Ain Zoo, beaks, beaky, Birds, Ducks, Lens-Artists, pelican, Pick A Word, vulture
Posted on November 7, 2023
This juxtaposition of two unrelated items of street furniture in a shopping street in Perigueux can raise a smile.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Raise a smile
Category: Travel Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Ducks, Funny, Perigueux, Red, Street Furniture
Posted on January 11, 2023
I took this photograph at Al Ain Zoo, in the United Arab Emirates. A bog-standard common duck may seem out of place surrounded by all manner of exotic fauna, but its feathers are nothing to be ashamed of.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Ducks, feathers
Posted on October 28, 2021
A tranquil scene as ducks swim on the lake next to Linlithgow Palace in Scotland.

Category: Landscape Tagged: CMMC, Ducks, lake, Landscape, Linlithgow, Rule of thirds, Water
Posted on April 11, 2015
Ducks afloat on the River Vienne at Confolens
Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Afloat, Confolens, Ducks, River Vienne, Vienne, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge