Lens-Artists Challenge: Unusual Crop

Posted on February 17, 2026

The challenge this week is to crop an image to provide a new slant on the subject. This is one of my favourite parts of the editing process; after all, isn’t it always good at least to try and find a new angle on a subject?

For this exercise, I’ve cropped and rotated the original photo, which is of the exterior of one of the smaller shopping malls in Abu Dhabi, to produce something that is at the same time structured yet almost abstract. For comparison, I’ve also reproduced the out-of-the-camera image below.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Unusual Crop

Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Columns, Cropping, Lanterns, Lens-Artists, Street Lighting, Unusual Crop, Unusual Perspective

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Monochrome Madness: Street Lighting

Posted on May 18, 2025

I confess that I had to do quite a bit of digging to come up with an interesting image of some street lighting. Typically, these are rather mundane artefacts that you wouldn’t often be bothered to get your camera out for.*

[Note to self: a conjunction is the wrong type of word to end a sentence with.]

However, I came across this image, which I had entirely forgotten about. High up on a wall in an old narrow street in the nearby town of Saint-Junien is this rather ornate but ancient lantern. Obviously designed for illumination, it certainly predates electric lights, and maybe even gas ones too.