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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken
Posted on May 23, 2015
For this week’s challenge, another image from Montrol-Sénard, the ‘living museum’ of rural life just a few miles from here. This is a view taken looking out through the window of the old Smithy, with a broken wheel which has been waiting for repair for quite some time. The cobwebs not only add to the atmosphere of the shot but also produce quite an interesting blur effect.
Abandoned
Posted on May 7, 2015
Here in the depths of the French countryside there is no shortage of abandoned buildings – the ones that even the hardiest expats won’t buy.
A colour version of this image was included in a post entitled ‘Rural Reflections‘ that I put up last year, but I think that the greyscale conversion works well.
Numbers
Posted on April 17, 2015
This is what passes for a licence plate around here, stencilled onto the back of the seat of an ancient and well-used tractor that belongs to the local commune.
In response to the latest of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges.
Wheels within wheels
Posted on February 27, 2015
Montrol-Sénard is a village in the Limousin countryside, not far from here, that is preserved as a living museum of rural life at around the turn of the last century. This image shows part of a piece of machinery in the village smithy. Don’t ask me what it’s for.
Posted in response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge.
Freezing fog
Posted on January 9, 2015
In response to Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge – Weather, an image taken last winter here at Tranquility Base.
The link to the challenge is here.
Photography 101: Bliss
Posted on November 6, 2014
‘When we bought Brokedown Palace almost ten years ago, we were also fortunate enough to acquire a few acres of attached agricultural land. This picture is of the field directly behind the house.
Just to be able to look out on a sunny day at this tranquil, unspoiled scene, with no sound but the birds, certainly counts as `bliss’ as far as I’m concerned.
Bliss
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy
Posted on October 11, 2014
From last winter, trees reflected in Tranquility Base’s very own étang.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
Posted on September 23, 2014
The blue paint on this old door in the nearby village of Bonnefont, here in Haute-Vienne, has obviously endured whatever the local climate has thrown at it over many years.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic
Posted on July 14, 2014
Recently, I went to a display of old cars and farming machinery in the village of Lesterps, not far from here. I now have many, many pictures of ancient tractors and some quite cool vintage cars, but this image of a child’s tricycle from yesteryear is perhaps a bit more than just a record shot.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring
Posted on May 4, 2014
One of my little ‘projects’ for this year is to record the passing seasons here at Tranquility Base by taking a photograph on the first day of each month of the same view – of our large field – from the same perspective. Here, I’ve run the last three together to illustrate how Spring has come to rural France this year.
Shame about the weather…
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