Posted on November 26, 2019
When we lived in Abu Dhabi, our go-to place for a little peace and relaxation was the Sir Bani Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. This was the swimming pool.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Peace
Category: Landscape Tagged: Abu Dhabi, fpj-photo-challenge, Peace, Peaceful, seascape, Sir Bani Yas, Sir Bani Yas Hotel
Posted on June 25, 2019
A sunset catamaran cruise off Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi:
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Radiant
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Abu Dhabi, catamaran, fpj-photo-challenge, radiant, seascape, silhouttes, Sir Bani Yas, sunset
Posted on May 22, 2019
Frank’s theme for this week is ‘Vista’ and, inspired by the photo he used in his own post, I have gone with a seascape from the coast of New South Wales – somewhere in the Sydney area, but I can’t remeber exactly where.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Vista
Posted on September 12, 2018
You could argue all night about what is the photographer’s greatest friend, but I’d have to say that a red foreground object must be among the frontrunners.
Imagine how dull this picture would be without that red railing.
[Taken in Oman in about 2004 with my first ever digital camera, a plucky little Olympus 3mp compact]
Cee’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge: Red
Category: Composition, Travel Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, foreground object, Oman, Red, seascape
Posted on February 4, 2017
On a sunny autumn day in St Andrews, my grandson dips a toe in the waters of the North Sea.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: seascape, Solitude, St Andrews, Sunlight, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on January 14, 2017
Ambience: the sense of a place. This is poolside at the hotel on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Quite possibly one of the most relaxing places we have ever been to (several times).
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Ambience, beach, seascape, Sir Bani Yas, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on December 13, 2016
Have I got views for you. So many to choose from, but here’s a view – taken on a lovely calm, sunny day at the end of October this year – of the harbour at St Andrews in Scotland:
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 19 – View
Category: Landscape, Uncategorized Tagged: 52Weeks, Harbour, seascape, St Andrews, View, Water
Posted on December 10, 2016
The first time we visited Muscat, in Oman, we went on a sunset cruise, so this was a new horizon for us at the time.
Weekly Photo Challenge: New Horizon
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Horizon, Muscat, New Horizon, Oman, seascape, sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on December 10, 2015
To be honest, finding ‘ready-made’ images that occupy two-thirds of the picture was a bit of a challenge. That probably just goes to show that I am (or was) too wedded to sticking the subject in the middle of the photograph as a matter of course. Still, a bit of creative cropping did the job.
This week, I have three pairs of similar images illustrating the 2/3rds theme (hover over the image and caption for a fuller description).
To begin with, a couple of archways:
And here are two water-based scenes:
And finally (appropriately) two sunsets:
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Using 2/3rds of your photo frame
Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, boats, Burano, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, France, Oman, Reflections, River Vienne, seascape, sunset