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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken
Posted on May 23, 2015
For this week’s challenge, another image from Montrol-Sénard, the ‘living museum’ of rural life just a few miles from here. This is a view taken looking out through the window of the old Smithy, with a broken wheel which has been waiting for repair for quite some time. The cobwebs not only add to the atmosphere of the shot but also produce quite an interesting blur effect.
Bottle Bank
Posted on May 14, 2015
A bit of a stretch maybe, but there is definitely liquid in these bottles: wine from the St. Emilion area of Bordeaux.
Abandoned
Posted on May 7, 2015
Here in the depths of the French countryside there is no shortage of abandoned buildings – the ones that even the hardiest expats won’t buy.
A colour version of this image was included in a post entitled ‘Rural Reflections‘ that I put up last year, but I think that the greyscale conversion works well.
Numbers
Posted on April 17, 2015
This is what passes for a licence plate around here, stencilled onto the back of the seat of an ancient and well-used tractor that belongs to the local commune.
In response to the latest of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges.
Name that tune
Posted on March 20, 2015
Detail from a piano in the Music Room of Chateau d’Amboise (where you can also find the empty chair).
Posted in response to the latest of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges.
Recycling point
Posted on March 6, 2015
Every village in France has its ‘dechette’, or recycling point, where you can get rid of your old newspapers, an alarming number of empty wine bottles and, of course, plastic packaging. Good citizens that we are, we sort out our own recycling and take it to the dechette on a regular basis. This is the sack for empty plastic bottles.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge.
Wheels within wheels
Posted on February 27, 2015
Montrol-Sénard is a village in the Limousin countryside, not far from here, that is preserved as a living museum of rural life at around the turn of the last century. This image shows part of a piece of machinery in the village smithy. Don’t ask me what it’s for.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge.
Freezing fog
Posted on January 9, 2015
In response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge – Weather, an image taken last winter here at Tranquility Base.
The link to the challenge is here.
Photography 101: Swarm
Posted on November 20, 2014
Not exactly a swarm, or a particularly technically adept photograph, but an interesting story.
The two men in the microlight are researching the habits of these geese. For about two weeks, weather permitting, they would fly over our house early in the morning. As time went on, they attracted more and more birds to fly along with them.
Haven’t seen them for a while: they must have gone south for the winter.
Photography 101: Home
Posted on November 3, 2014
Almost ten years ago, we bought a ruin – and I do mean a ruin – in rural France as a retirement home.
There was rather a lot of renovation involved, as you can see from these ‘before and after’ photographs, but it was well worth it, as I’ve written about here.
And we still call it Brokedown Palace.
Brokedown Palace
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