Posted on January 12, 2023
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.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Polygons
Category: Abstract, Composition, Travel Tagged: Architecture, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Curves, Dubai, Dubai Mall, Glass, Polygons
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.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Shiny
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Glass, Shiny
Posted on March 4, 2020
In the entrance to a factory on the Venetian island of Murano, rightly famed for the manufacture of glass.
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
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.
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:
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Glass
Category: Abstract, Black & White Tagged: Abstract, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Glass, Glass block
Posted on October 25, 2015
This glassblower on Murano knows that molten glass needs to be handled carefully, for aesthetic as well as safety reasons.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Careful, Glass, Glassblowing, Murano, Venice, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
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.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Bordeaux, Bottles, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, France, Glass, Liquids, Wine
Posted on November 25, 2014
No visit to Venice would be complete without a trip to to the island of Murano to see the glassblowers at work. This is how it all begins.
Category: Photography 101 Tagged: Glass, Glassblowing, Murano, photo101, Photography 101, Venice