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Lens-Artists Challenge: Landscape revisited
Posted on November 10, 2025
This aspect is about a two-minute walk from our house (our hamlet is pretty well surrounded by fields for a least a mile in every direction).
On a bright winter’s day, what made this particular view stand out for me were the strong leading lines provided by the tractor tyre tracks in the mud. With the sun relatively low in the cloudless sky, the reflections in the puddles in the furrows also increased the definition in the scene.
Cellpic Sunday: Looking Astern
Posted on September 7, 2025
Earlier this summer, we took the ferry from Caen to Portsmouth (and very good it was too). Looking back at the boat’s wash as the French coast was about to disappear over the horizon, it struck me that it made an excellent leading line.
Cellpic Sunday: Canoes at Crozant
Posted on July 13, 2025
The photographer’s dream scenario: a leading line, reflections and red foreground objects. An idyllic summer’s day on the River Creuse at Crozant.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Cinematic
Posted on April 28, 2025
This week we’re looking for cinematic images.
I took this photo in the desert outside the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. For me, the main attractions were the strong leading line and the combination of sand, scrub and stone. Oh, and the symmetry of the two slopes.
It’s not too much of a stretch to see this as an establishing shot in a Western, with the added mystery of what could be lying in wait on the other side of that crest……
Monochrome Madness: The Sea
Posted on February 7, 2025
This is a monochrome rendering of a photograph I took in St. Andrews in Scotland, looking out over the North Sea. Who could resist those leading lines – or those clouds?
Lens-Artists Challenge: Last Chance 2024
Posted on December 27, 2024
As I recall it, there was nothing that particularly stood out about this shot when I took it, about a week ago, but a closer look on the big screen rather than the smartphone made me think it’s actually a half decent composition.
It was taken down by the river in the old part – the quattiers pittoresques – of Bellac, our nearest town, when I was standing in the middle of a (very) old stone bridge.Apart from the tranquiity (it’s an area that isn’t that easy to access by car, so is usually quite quiet except in the tourist season), what stood out for me was the multitude of leading lines that draw the viewer in.
There’s the river itself, disappearing into the downstream distance, as well as the ripples in the bottom right, caused by the water flowing through the arches of the bridge. Additionally, there’s that low wall on the left. Mainly, however, it’s those trees and especially their reflections.
Well, I like it anyway…
Leading lines, anyone?
Posted on November 3, 2024
A little 30-minute constitutional last Friday morning led us down a narrow and rarely used country road with pastureland on each side.. The low autumn sun cast long shadows and the tractor tyre tracks at the entrance to this field produced enough leading lines to make anybody happy.
Sunset Over St. Monan’s
Posted on October 29, 2021
Looking from one Scottish fishing to another – Pittenweem towards St. Monan’s – the setting sun highlights the top of a fence, which really makes the shot.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 23 Leading Lines
Posted on June 7, 2020
Week 23 of the Smartphone Challeneg is, frankly, a bit of an odd one. We are invited to use strong leading lines in food photography.
Okay….
Now, as I do not use Instagram (where I believe it’s compulsory), I’m not in the habit of posting photographs of every scrap of food I consume, I just had to come up with something.
So here’s a picture of a swede (‘rutabaga‘ en français) on our kitchen table.
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52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 8 – Leading Lines
Posted on February 22, 2020
This is week 8 of the Smartphone Challenge being hosted by Khürt at islandinthenet.com, and we are looking for Leading Lines – more specifically, how they can be used to show the concept of infinity.
In the nearby town of Confolens there is a little bridge over a small tributary of the Vienne river. The parapet on the right provides a leading line, while the bridge itself, as well as providing an interesting reflection (itself a nod to the concept of infinity) obscures the course of the river, adding an element of mystery to the image.
Or something like that.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge: 8 Leading Lines
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