Lens-Artists Challenge: Shadowed

Posted on March 2, 2026

There is a path that runs right along the Corniche in Abu Dhabi. It’s not just a path, though (c’mon, this is Abu Dhabi we’re talking about), as interest is added thanks to fountains, underpasses and other features.

Also it being Abu Dhabi, it’s hardly ever cloudy and the sunlight is very strong; consequently, the shadows are well defined. In this section, the high wall is completely in the shade and a strong, dark shadow is cast by a lower wall and something else (I’ve forgotten what it was exactly) to the right. I’ve converted the original image to monochrome to produce this abstract, but definitely shadowed, image.

Category: Abstract, Black & White Tagged: Abstract, Abu Dhabi, Shadows, Black & White, Shadowed, geometric, Lines and Angles, Lens-Artists

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Tuesday Photo Challenge – Back Catalog(ue)

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

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The glass roof

Posted on September 29, 2017

The glass roof of the covered open-air vegetable market in the city of Chartres is replete with symmetrical lines and angles to meet Cee’s theme for this week (and works particularly well in monochrome).