Posted on September 10, 2019
Frank’s theme this week is ‘Focus’. We’re all supposed to try and get our images pin-sharp, apparently, but sometimes a little judicious out-of-focus or bokeh seems to make the focus stand out even more.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Focus
Category: Composition, Flowers Tagged: Bokeh, focus, fpj-photo-challenge, leaves, Red, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on June 18, 2019
This trail, running through the woods at Beecraigs Country Park in central Scotland, looks especially striking with its carpet of autumn leaves:

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trail
Category: Landscape Tagged: Autumn, Beecraigs Country Park, fpj-photo-challenge, Landscape, leaves, Trail, Trees
Posted on December 27, 2017
For this week’s Tuesday Challenge, Frank at Dutch Goes The Photo! has set the theme of ‘quotidian’, in the sense of the normal everyday that could, in photographic terms, repay a closer view or a different perspective.
What could be more humdrum than a drain, you may wonder? But this drain-cover in the gutter of a street in Chabanais is surely worth a second glance, not only for the interesting structure of the ironwork, but also for the contrast provided by the autumn leaves that have become trapped in it.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Quotidian
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Autumn, Chabanais, fpj-photo-challenge, Ironwork, leaves, Quotidian, Tuesday Photo Challenge
Posted on January 9, 2017
The 52 Week Photo Challenge is back after its brief year-end hiatus and the topic for Week 22 is ‘Nature’. That’s certainly something that leaves plenty of scope, but I decided to go with something that’s typical for the time of year.
This is a detail from one of the oak trees in my fields. We are in the depths of winter, so obviously last year’s leaves are dead, but at the same time you can see the buds that will produce new leaves when spring arrives.

52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 22 – Nature
Posted on November 26, 2016
We’ve had a couple of frosty days over the past few weeks. So that’ll be November then:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Time of Year
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Flowers, Frost, leaves, November, Time of Year, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge, Winter
Posted on November 8, 2016
For my latest contribution to Narami’s Tuesday of Texture challenge at De Monte Y Mar, this is a photograph I took only last Sunday afternoon on a stroll around our local village. Plenty of textures here, as autumn leaves pile up on the tarmac against this old metal gate:
