Shouldn’t that be ‘vin’?

As one of France’s leading utility companies, EDF (Électricité de France) supplies something without which modern civilised life would be quite impossible.

As well as electricity.

EDF Wine-2

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge Week 19

The Road To Brokedown Palace

This little turn-off from the rue that runs through the little hamlet we call Tranquility Base is probably my favourite stretch of road in the world. That’s our house – Brokedown Palace – at the end of it.

And that’s why.

Road

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Roads of any kind

Thursday Doors: Emily’s Henhouse

Emily, our nearest neighbour, keeps some chickens on a little plot just across the road from her house. They spend the day foraging around the patch of ground, but at night they’re shut up in this old building with doors that, it’s fair to say, have seen better days – although not for quite a while.

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Thursday Doors 21 April 2016

Composition: The Outtakes

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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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Fences everywhere you look

This week, Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is on the subject of fences. Well, in this photograph taken at the La Sagne Hippodrome you have:

  • In the foreground, the fence dividing spectators from the race course
  • In the background, the fence marking the border of the racecourse
  • In the middle, two steeplechase fences, with their accompanying siderails (also fences)

The horse that’s actually jumping the fence is a bonus:

Fence

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences

Thursday Doors: Rochechouart

The town of Rochechouart is dominated by its medieval Chateau. It has a cloister, in one corner of which are these intriguing doors (and unusual ‘candy cane’ columns).

Rochechouart

Thursday Doors 7 April 2016

Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape

Not far from here, if you go down a country lane and then take the lane that leads off that, you will come across this tranquil landscape:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape

Cour du Temple

In the old part of the city of Limoges, tucked away behind the tall façade of a terrace of buildings that are themselves quite old, is the Cour du Temple. Reached through a narrow, sloping covered passage, this is a small cloister surrounded on all sides by medieval buildings four or five storeys high. This is one corner:

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[Taken more than one, but less than two, weeks ago so hopefully qualifying for Cee’s latest challenge – taking a new photo]

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Take A New Photo

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 17 – Calm

If I come out of my house, walk the 25 yards or so up to the road and look to my left, this is what I see. And people wonder why I refer to the petit hameau we live in as ‘Tranquility Base’.

(By the way, this is rush hour.)

Calm

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge – Calm

Thursday Doors: Chansigaud

Back closer to home for this week’s Thursday Doors. About a mile up the track from here at Tranquility Base, at the junction with what is somewhat optimistically called ‘the main road’, is a working sheep farm called Chansigaud. The building in this image is now used for storage but it was formerly the family home.

The door at the foot of the external staircase (quite a common feature around here: we used to have one ourselves) is remarkably tatty – and not very draught-proof.

Chansigaud

Thursday Doors 18 February 2016