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Monochrome Madness: Symmetry
Posted on September 20, 2025
The theme for the latest iteration of Monochrome Madness is ‘symmetry’ – which is always something that most photographers are on the lookout for.
Architecture – especially classical architecture – is usually a good place to look for symmetry in an image, and I think it certainly works here, in a view of the imposing nave of the Collegiale in Le Dorat.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Quiet Hours
Posted on July 14, 2025
This week’s challenge is to post an image that captures the idea of ‘quiet hours’. Clearly, there are many interpretations: the ‘hours’ element can refer to a particular time of day, while ‘quiet’ could be just something conveying tranquility or serenity.
I’ve gone with the latter, with this photo having been taken in the late morning on an inlet of the River Creuse. Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind, scarcely a ripple to distort those crystal-clear reflections. It was very quiet….
Cellpic Sunday: Symmetry
Posted on March 2, 2025
The Pavillon du Verdurier is an exhibition space in the centre of Limoges. Obviously, people go to look at the exhibits (in this case quilts) but the building, especially the interior, is a work of art in itself.
This is a view from below of the elegantly decorated dome. The image has just been cropped and straightened: it really does look this pristine.
Cellpic Sunday: Take It From The Top
Posted on February 23, 2025
This view from the top floor of the Centre Commercial Saint-Martial (it’s a shopping mall) in the city of Limoges struck me as interesting in an abstract yet also symmetrical – thanks to some judicious cropping – way.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Two rectangles
Posted on June 24, 2024
The Lens-Artists Challenge this week has been set by Egidio, with the theme of ‘two rectangles’. To me, that seemed like an open invitation to show a bit of minimalist symmetry.
Dusk on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi:
Lens-Artists Challenge: Tools of Composition
Posted on March 4, 2024
The house opposite my daughter’s has just got a new roof…
Cropping in to exclude everything but the tiles themselves not only removes distractions but also brings out the texture of the tiles as well as the patterns they form – obviously all helped by a bright, sunny day.
Cellpic Sunday: Michelangelo, eat your heart out
Posted on December 31, 2023
It’s not just the Sistine Chapel that boasts a fancy ceiling. This one is in the Henri Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi, which is housed in the former Bishops’ Palace, just a step away from the Cathedral.
Geometric symmetry
Posted on December 28, 2023
The geometric forms in this half-timbered house in Chabanais chime well with the image that Cee has chosen for her latest Midweek Challenge.
I wonder if the house number is 29 (XXIX).
Cellpic Sunday: A room without a view
Posted on December 17, 2023
A few weeks ago, my entry for Cellpic Sunday was a rather attractive view from a hotel room.
This is also a view from a (different) hotel room. Rather less prepossessing, but with a little judicious cropping and straightening in Lightroom it’s possible to produce a rather more interesting image.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Symmetry
Posted on November 2, 2023
This is the organ of the cathedral in Albi, in southern France – never knowingly understated, in terms of either scale or symmetry.
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