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Monochrome Madness: Transport
Posted on June 25, 2025
I have no end of pictures of various forms of transport suitable for this week’s Monochrome Madness theme of ‘Transport’. I think I’m especially well-equipped for tractors – unsurprisingly, given our location in the depths of rural France.
However, I thought I’d go with this. No, it’s not a child’s drawing of a bicycle – this is Leonardo da Vinci’s design for a bicycle, on display in a museum in the city of Venice. Note the characteristic mirror writing.
It looks a bit of a bone-shaker, to be honest, but it can’t be denied that he was well ahead of his time.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Go-To Places
Posted on April 22, 2025
This week, John has set us the interesting challenge of showing our ‘go-to’ places. To be honest, I’m pretty happy to be here at home most of the time (not least because it doesn’t involve the hassle of actually getting to anywhere).
We have been very lucky to have traveled to some wonderful places, so I thought I’s just post images from three of my favourite destinations. I don’t think the first two need any further introduction…
This third one may not be quite so familiar. It’s the Corniche in Abu Dhabi as our evening cruise passed the headquarters of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where I worked for the last ten years of my career. We have many happy memories of our time in the UAE.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Looking Back
Posted on October 15, 2024
A particularly interesting theme for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge: ‘Looking back’.
If you think about it, every photo you’ve ever taken – even the one you might have captured less than a minute ago – is looking back: a split second of a memory preserved for ever (or at least until you press the ‘Delete’ button). Indeed, why do we take photos in the first place, if not to create a memento?
I’m fortunate to have many happy memories – and perhaps even luckier to be able to remember them, but I’d be lying if I said that having a photographic record hasn’t helped in that.. So, the choice wasn’t easy, but I finally settled on something.
Madame and I have been lucky enough to visit Venice four times, all for wedding anniversaries, of which three were significant milestones. This is the hotel , on the Grand Canal, that we stayed in on two of those occasions. Happy days…
Lens-Artists Challenge: Tourist Attractions
Posted on July 14, 2024
Who among us has never been a tourist? And who among us has never thought that somewhere would be absolutely wonderful – if it wasn’t for all the bloody tourists?
This is Venice (of course), just off Piazza San Marco. And it wasn’t even high season.
Where are We?
Posted on March 2, 2023
“Siri, give me an image that shows where we are without saying where we are”.
Glass Masters
Posted on March 4, 2020
In the entrance to a factory on the Venetian island of Murano, rightly famed for the manufacture of glass.
Monday Window – Venice
Posted on December 2, 2019
An impressive array of windows on the upper floor of this palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice.
#MondayWindow 2 December 2019
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Tourism
Posted on October 8, 2019
No prizes for guessing which popular tourist destination is pictured here:
Reading the map
Posted on September 13, 2019
A tourist couple decide what to see next during their visit to the island of Burano in the Venetian lagoon.
Wooden walkway, Burano
Posted on August 23, 2019
A covered wooden walkway on the island of Burano, in the Venetian lagoon.
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