Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

The dramatic curve of the entrance to the Manarat Al Saadiyat exhibition centre on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi seems like a suitable entry for this week’s Photo Challenge.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

Earlier this week, a moment of pure tranquility on the banks of the Charente river at Chaniers:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

Not so long ago, I posted this stark image of one of the outside-facing clocks on the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. For the latest WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, with the theme of Numbers, here is the ornate gilded clock – roman numerals and all – that hangs over the main exhibition hall inside:

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Less conventionally, here’s another way of looking at numbers, from the old schoolroom in Montrol-Sénard:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers

Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare

This motley collection of rusty washers and other miscellaneous bits and pieces (presumably spares) was seen at a vide grenier (car boot sale) in the village of Lesterps. Who buys this stuff?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare

Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant

‘Jubilant’ derives from a Greek word which means (literally) ‘shouting for joy’. Not unlike this guest at one of our grandsons’ birthday parties:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant

Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

A smiley face cheers up a No Entry sign in the old part of Limoges.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth

A new bud emerges from the earth as springtime arrives.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth

Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration

A well-groomed barber steps back to admire his handiwork in this Dubai hairdressers.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract

According to the Tate Gallery, “abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect”.

I think this qualifies. It was taken in front of the huge aquarium inside Dubai Mall, and illustrates what happens when you have to use a long exposure in a dimly-lit space and somebody barges into you just as you press the shutter.

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The smaller image below shows what  it would have looked like without the introduction of the third-party camera shake. Frankly, I prefer the abstract version (it’ll probably come as no surprise to  learn that I like tie-dye too).

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime

In the Vallée des Singes nature park, a Capucin monkey eyes up one of his five a day:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime