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Lens-Artists Challenge: Dreamy
Posted on October 14, 2025
It occurred to me that this would be a suitable image for this week’s Lens-Artists challenge of ‘Dreamy’, largely because I have just referred to a post on my other website: theonlydeadheadinthehameau.wordpress.com.
This is not deliberately out of focus, but it was taken – in the medieval French town of Sarlat – through a window containing some extremely old glass. Very obviously the early glaziers hadn’t quite yet mastered the techniques for making clear glass. Still, it let the light in and kept the weather out, so it marked real progress back then.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Creativity
Posted on June 30, 2025
I’ve never considered myself as particularly creative (except perhaps in the art of avoiding hard work or getting my hands dirty), so for this week’s Lens0Artists Challenge, with the theme of ‘Creativity’, it makes more sense to me to highlight the creativity of others more blessed than myself in that department.
The island of Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon, is world famous for its production of glass, especially ornamental glass items that are designed and made by individual craftsmen. The production process is fascinating, if a little scary – that stuff if hot.
Murano Glass
Posted on January 4, 2024
A close-up view of a piece of glass from Murano reveals its extraordinary intricacy.
Amber Glass
Posted on January 12, 2023
Madame made this at a glass-making workshop. Together with its companion pieces it adorns our terrace.
Polygonal
Posted on September 22, 2021
There are more polygons than you could count in this image of the roof of one of the galleries of Dubai Mall.
Shiny Scent Bottles
Posted on April 21, 2021
This week’s Fun Foto challenge is looking for something shiny. These perfume bottles were part of a collection that was displayed at a ‘hobbies’ expo a couple of years ago.
Glass Masters
Posted on March 4, 2020
In the entrance to a factory on the Venetian island of Murano, rightly famed for the manufacture of glass.
Through a glass, darkly
Posted on October 9, 2019
Detail of the stopper of an antique coloured glass decanter, seen at an exhibition of old glassware and ceramics in our local village.
Posted in response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi
Posted on August 31, 2018
Last week in response to Cee’s Black & White theme of sculpture I posted an image of some statuary from the Basilica San Marco. This week’s topic is glass and here is another image from a religious edifice, in this case the mind-bogglingly beautiful Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
Shining through
Posted on February 10, 2017
You know those glass bricks¹ you can get to go in your bathroom? Well this is what can happen when you shine a light through one of them:
¹ this is what I’m talking about:
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