Monochrome Madness: Begins with ‘H’

Posted on July 9, 2025

An interesting challenge for the latest iteration of Monochrome Madness: can I spy something beginning with ‘H’?

Well yes, albeit after a little thought. This is the harbour of the city of La Rochelle, as the sun begins to set.

Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, boats, Clouds, cloudscape, Harbour, La Rochelle, Monochrome-Madness

Lens-Artists Challenge: Mellow

Posted on June 9, 2025

I think this image fits the bill for the theme of this week’s challenge: another photograph taken last October in La Rochelle, in the ‘golden hour’ just before sunset.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Mellow

Category: Landscape Tagged: boats, Golden hour, La Rochelle, Lens-Artists, Mellow, sunset

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Cellpic Sunday: Rooms with views

Posted on October 13, 2024

We were away last weekend on a (very) special occasion trip. Our destination was the city of La Rochelle, on France’s west coast.

En route, however, we broke our journey in the city of Poitiers, where we stayed overnight in a budget hotel whose chief attraction was its proximity to the railway station. We certainly didn’t choose it for the views:

On the other hand, in La Rochelle we splashed the cash on a suite in a considerably more upmarket establishment, where the views were a signifcant step up from the poor relation in Poitiers.