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Thursday Doors: Navaleuil
Posted on November 19, 2015
My first contribution to the Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Norm 2.0.
This matching door and shutters can be found in the hamlet of Navaleuil, about two kilometres from home here at Tranquility Base. Compared to the smaller doors on the left, it also shows what a difference a lick of paint can make.
Thursday Doors November 19th 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory
Posted on November 14, 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries
Posted on October 3, 2015
A stream and a line of well-cultivated trees provides an effective boundary at Chateau du Fraisse, just outside Nouic in the Haute-Vienne.
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.
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.
Autrefois: Bussiere-Poitevine
Posted on February 17, 2015
This is the first post in a new category of ‘Autrefois’, in which I’ve tried to reproduce, as closely as possible, the modern look of views shown on old picture postcards of the Haute Vienne departément.
Bussiere-Poitevine: the tram station
Between the two wars, there was an extensive tram network in the Limousin region. Today very little remains, apart from some of the old stations (gares), with their distinctive checkered brickwork around doors and windows and corners.
The gare at Bussiere-Poitevine is one of the better-preserved and now does service as a municipal building.
Bussiere-Poitevine: Maison Leger Montel
I’ve no idea what kind of shop Maison Leger Montel was, although when the picture for the postcard was taken they had a sale (‘Soldes’) on.
Today, it’s a hairdressers.
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
Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
Posted on September 23, 2014
The blue paint on this old door in the nearby village of Bonnefont, here in Haute-Vienne, has obviously endured whatever the local climate has thrown at it over many years.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
Posted on March 5, 2014
Oradour-sur-Glane is a village not far from here. In 1944 it was the scene of a Nazi atrocity, which can be read about here.
A new village was built nearby after the war, but the original is now preserved as a permanent museum and memorial to the 642 named victims.
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