Posted on November 12, 2023
After a few days of almost constant high winds and driving rain, car parks everywhere were carpeted in newly fallen autumn leaves. Crop out the car tyre and my feet and you’re left with a frame-filling and colourful mosaic.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Filling the frame
Category: Macro Tagged: autumn colours, autumn leaves, Close-up, Filling the frame, Lens-Artists
Posted on November 6, 2023
Last week’s challenge was all about symmetry, so it’s quite logical that this time we should consider asymmetry.
I featured an image from Albi cathedral last week and I’m staying there this time. I was struck by what I saw in one of the many side chapels that line the nave. The only natural illumination comes from that stained glass window, but there are two electric lights shining on to that suspended dove. They cast a very striking – and asymmetric – shadow.

Lens-Artists Challenge 274: Asymmetry
Category: Composition Tagged: Albi, Albi cathedral, Asymmetry, Lens-Artists, Shadows, Stained Glass
Posted on November 2, 2023
This is the organ of the cathedral in Albi, in southern France – never knowingly understated, in terms of either scale or symmetry.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Symmetry
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Albi, Albi cathedral, Lens-Artists, organ, Symmetry