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Lens-Artists Challenge: Autumn Colours
Posted on October 6, 2025
Well, it’s definitely that time of year again, and apart from the chillier mornings perhaps the most immediately noticeable sign that autumn is upon us is nature’s changing colour palette as the predominant greens steadily turn to reds and browns.
Cellpic Sunday: The old pump
Posted on August 17, 2025
When this petrol pump was new – perhaps a century or more ago – it could well have serviced the fuel requirements of the Yorkshire town of Beverley on its own. Nowadays of course, it’s simply an historical curio.
Monochrome Madness – Any Colour
Posted on July 24, 2025
There’s a very interesting twist on the idea of monochrome in this latest Monochrome Madness Challenge. The automatic assumption is that monochrome must mean black and white or, at most, sepia. However if something – or image thereof – has only one colour, whatever that may be, then it can fairly be described as monochrome.
This is, of course, a rose – and Madame’s favourite to boot, as it reminds her of her grandmother, who grew these in her own garden. I don’t recall us ever having so many blooms at the same time as this summer, and the scent is blissful: just what you imagine a rose should smell like: heady and almost sensual.
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: Books
Posted on June 2, 2025
I was a voracious reader from a very young age (although nowadays not so much) and my first post-university job was in the Liverpool City Libraries so yes, I can do books.
A couple of years ago I was ‘commissioned’ to take some photographs of books for a charity shop’s online sale. By far the most impressive set of tomes was this beautifuly bound and presumably encyclopedic 16-volume set of an illustrated history of France between 1843 and 1944.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn’t attract any bids. Realistically, who these days would go to the trouble of pulling one of these big beasts off the shelf and settling down in an armchair?
Cellpic Sunday: Poinsettia
Posted on January 12, 2025
With the festive season over, our poinsettia was starting to shed its leaves all over the floor, so it had to be expelled from the house. Its temporary new home is the back step, where it got very wet from the almost constant rain that fell last week.
Last Photo November 2024
Posted on December 3, 2024
The last photo I took in November was this defiant geranium, gamely hanging on in one of our raised beds.
The blooms are low-hanging, but these creaking bones couldn’t face the prospect of having to kneel on the path to get the shot – I might not be able to get up again – so I used the front camera on my iPhone. I think it turned out okay.
(No editing of course, because them’s the rules.)
Cellpic Sunday: Big red
Posted on May 26, 2024
Our neighbour is something of an automobile buff. For some reason best known to himself, he has recently acquired this improbably large red Mercedes camion. It does clash somewhat with his blue Porsche with the yellow wheel arches though.
Poinsettia at its peak
Posted on January 3, 2024
If you want something red (as Cee does for this week’s Fun Foto Challenge) you don’t need to look much further than a poinsettia, especially at this time of year.
Nana’s Rose
Posted on November 9, 2023
When we spotted the junior version of this rose in a small local garden centre, we knew we had to have it.
Madame’s much-loved grandmother had one of this variety in her garden and the wonderful scent transports her back to her childhood.
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