Posted on April 21, 2020
This noble-looking horse was carrying one of the riders at the Birds of Prey show in Confolens-St-Germain.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Animals
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Animals, fpj-photo-challenge, Horse, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on November 22, 2017
Out here in the French countryside, many things are still done as they have been for generations – working off the lunar calendar, for example. However, the local farmers are by no means averse to using technology to make their life a bit easier.
So the horses have been put out to grass and the heavy work is now done with tractors. And that’s progress.
Just ask the horse.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Progress
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Agriculture, Farming, fpj-photo-challenge, France, Horse, Progress, Rural, Technology, Tractors
Posted on March 24, 2017
This striking white horse is one of a group of about half a dozen or so that belongs to one of our neighbours.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: G or H
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Horse, Rural
Posted on April 19, 2016
We’re having what the French call a pause pour reflexion in Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge this time around. A time to think about the ground we’ve covered already and also an opportunity to show some images that didn’t quite make the cut for posting under the various topics that we’ve dealt with in the past months. Here’s a selection of mine:
Perspective
Now, what is this a picture of? Is it the building on the right (the apartment block in Abu Dhabi where we lived for ten years)? Or is it the glass-plated building on the left? Or perhaps it’s the reflection of the former in the latter?
Diagonal Lines
I used an image of two giraffes in my first posting on the topic of diagonal lines, but I could equally have used this profile of a horse – one of many in the fields around here.
Now two images that cover more than one aspect of the various topics we’ve looked at so far:
Leading Lines & Analogous Colours
A hillside vineyard near the village of Ay, in the Champagne regionĀ shows blue and green together, as well as leading lines
Geometry and Contrasting Colours
Orange and blue dominate this image of a seal at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Obviously the balanced ball is one geometric shape but the curve of the seal’s body is like an arc of a circle.
Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Australia, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, colours, Composition, France, Geometry, Horse, Reflections, Seals, Taronga Zoo
Posted on April 15, 2016
This week, Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is on the subject of fences. Well, in this photograph taken at the La Sagne Hippodrome you have:
The horse that’s actually jumping the fence is a bonus:
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Fences, France, Haute Vienne, Horse, Horseracing, La Sagne Hippodrome
Posted on November 14, 2015
First past the post at the La Sagne hippodrome, near Le Dorat
Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: France, Haute Vienne, Horse, Horseracing, Le Dorat, Victory, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on May 21, 2015
Detail of a carved wooden horse that sits on a table in our salon. The monochrome conversion (the real thing is actually bronze-coloured) highlights the interesting textures of the piece.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Carving, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Head, Horse, Sculpture, Texture