Posted on December 11, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week is ‘Mist’. This shot of my fields, as dawn breaks, could be seen as the companion to this one, taken a minute or so earlier
Category: Landscape Tagged: fpj-photo-challenge, mist, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on December 3, 2019
The interiors of many old churches can be rather cold and austere, with great slabs of now-bare stonework. Not so the medieval church in the town of Chauvigny, especially with the warming glow of the sun shining through stained glass windows.

Category: Composition Tagged: Architecture, Chauvigny, Church, fpj-photo-challenge, glow, Stonework
Posted on November 26, 2019
When we lived in Abu Dhabi, our go-to place for a little peace and relaxation was the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. This was the swimming pool.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Peace
Category: Landscape Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Peace, Peaceful, seascape, Sir Bani Yas, Sir Bani Yas Hotel
Posted on November 19, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week is ‘fantasy’. I suppose one way of defining that is as something that doesn’t actually exist but you would quite like it if it did.
The possibilities are almost endless, but on a very still day on the River Charente in the Dordogne there’s more than a suggestion of fantasy about the reflections of the riverbank.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Fantasy
Category: Abstract, Landscape Tagged: Charente, Dordogne, Fantasy, fpj-photo-challenge, Reflections, river, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on November 13, 2019
Let’s play a word association game. Last week, Frank’s theme for his Tuesday Photo Challenge was ‘steep’. What else could it be this time but ‘slope’?
The almost impossibly picturesque village of Saint Cirq Lapopie clings to a hillside near the town of Cahors, in southern France. There isn’t a level (or particularly wide) street in the place, so lots of slopes. This is probably one of the more challenging ones.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Slope
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Architecture, fpj-photo-challenge, Saint Cirq Lapopie, Slope
Posted on November 5, 2019
A characteristic of the many notable medieval buildings in the Dordogne town of Sarlat is their very steep roofs. In this image of one of the churches, this steepness is exaggerated by the camera angle that’s necessary to capture the entire edifice.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Steep
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Church, fpj-photo-challenge, Perspective, Sarlat, steep
Posted on October 29, 2019
A section of the rugged Pacific coast north of Sydney, Australia

Posted in response to Dutch Goes The Photo! Tuesday Photo Challenge: Coast
Category: Landscape Tagged: Australia, Coast, fpj-photo-challenge, Sydney, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on October 22, 2019
This giraffe in the game reservation on Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi has no idea that the setting sun makes it look like it’s wearing a golden crown.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sunset
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Giraffes, Sir Bani Yas, sunset
Posted on October 15, 2019
A very interesting challenge from Frank this week. He invites us to go to our back catalog(ue) and take a new look at an old image – probably something we could all benefit from doing more often.
This is part of the exterior of a hotel on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The original – reproduced in the smaller photo below – is pretty ho-hum: no doubt why I’ve never done anything with it. However, after some cropping and ‘popping’ in Lightroom post-processing it becomes a more striking abstract geometric composition.


Tuesday Photo Challenge: Back Catalog(ue)
Category: Abstract Tagged: Abstract, Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Editing, fpj-photo-challenge, geometric, hotel, Yas Island
Posted on October 8, 2019
No prizes for guessing which popular tourist destination is pictured here:

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tourism
Category: Travel Tagged: fpj-photo-challenge, Tourism, Venice