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Cellpic Sunday: Rusty Shutter
Posted on January 27, 2025
A day late due to ‘production difficulties’ (sc. idleness and ineptitude on my part, plus my struggles with the new and ‘improved’ (ha!) WordPress UI.
Although the popular, almost romantic, image of French window shutters is pristine. brightly coloured and freshly painted volets, more prosaically they’re at least as likely to be metal and rusting. This one, on an abandoned house in the village of Rancon, is a particularly….er, ‘fine’ example.
The Rusty Hinge
Posted on June 1, 2022
This extremely rusty hinge can be found in the outdoor war memorial of Oradour-sur-Glane.
Fancy A Coffee?
Posted on July 15, 2021
This weathered sign, in the open air museum of Montrol-Sénard, is outside a century-old equivalent of a modern-day coffee shop.
The Key
Posted on May 6, 2021
Our house, and its attached barns, are well over two hundred years old and appear to have been continuously occupied – or, at the very least, actively utilised – for that entire period. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that every so often a n ancient and forgotten artefact turns up somewhere.
This old key is one of the latest to appear. If it hasn’t aged well it’s certainly rusted in a visually interesting manner.
All made by man
Posted on May 27, 2020
The fence was made by men. The rusting cars were made by men.
And so was the destruction: Oradour-sur-Glane.
Fence
Posted on December 1, 2017
Bright sunlight casting strong shadows made this fence by the riverside in Chabanais a good subject for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 36 – Simple Things
Posted on May 30, 2017
An artfully rusted bicycle propped up against a wall in the village of Saint-Martial-sur-Isop during last weekend’s Fête de la Laine (hence the woolly decorations).
A simple subject framed according to the simple Rule of Thirds.
Tuesdays of Texture: Rusty Railings
Posted on February 7, 2017
These railings, around one of the larger houses in the local village of Mézières-sur-Issoire, could do with a fresh coat of paint; but would they necessarily look any better for it?
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Resilient
Posted on December 31, 2016
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane is a national monument in France. In June 1944 a battalion of the German SS massacred over 600 men, women and children here. It has been left just as it was in the aftermath of that atrocity for over seventy years.
Walls have collapsed, wooden furniture has long rotted away, but metal objects are more resilient and still survive, despite being exposed to the elements for over half a century.
Tuesdays of Texture: Abra
Posted on December 6, 2016
By far the best way to cross from one side of Dubai Creek to the other is on one of the little passenger boats called abras (think motorised gondolas). This one was tied up on the Deira side.
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