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Lens-Artists Challenge: Bold
Posted on February 23, 2025
For this week’s challenge, Sofia at Photographias wants to see something bold. Although I only took this photograph last Thursday evening, it strikes me as a suitable response.
This is the Eglise Saint-Pierre-du-Queyroix in the centre of the city of Limoges. We were walking back from a restaurant to our hotel when I noticed how boldly the spire stood out from the night sky with that yellow hue from the sodium lights that illuminate it after dark.
Lens-Artists Challenge: Shoot from above
Posted on January 23, 2025
Sometimes (or should that be ‘many times and oft’?) these old bones either can’t or – more likely – can’t be bothered to hunker down and take an eye-level photo of something at or near ground level. That at least is my excuse for just snapping this flower from above. Its bright colours made it really stand out from its surroundings.
Wait! Cucumbers Have Flowers?
Posted on July 28, 2021
Not that I’ve ever given the matter much thought, but I was genuinely surprised to see that the cucumber plants in our serre were flowering.
Although since they’re planted next to the courgettes, which even I know have flowers, I really ought to have realised.
To be honest, I was just attracted by the water drops.
Fighting goats
Posted on June 12, 2021
The colour theme for Cee’s midweek challenge this month is yellow.
In the East Lothian town of Haddington there is a statue of a pair of goats fighting. It’s imaginatively called ‘The Haddington Goats’.
And there’s a yellow wall behind it.
Eglantine
Posted on October 14, 2020
I believe that this variety of rose is known as Eglantine and it’s a very old one. It’s also pink, with a yellow heart, so suitable for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 11 – Fill The Frame
Posted on March 14, 2020
For week 11 of the Smartphone Challenge hosted by Khürt, we’re invited to fill the frame with a single colour.
Spring seems to have come earlier than usual this year and there are plenty of the usual harbingers already in evidence – like this narcissus.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge
The well-trodden path
Posted on November 12, 2019
An autumn walk among the fallen leaves on the riverside path in Chiswick, west London.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Definitely Yellow
Posted on July 18, 2017
This week’s Tuesday Challenge at Dutch Goes The Photo is to post an image of something yellow.
I don’t know what these flowers are called, but they are most definitely yellow.
Mundane? Postbox
Posted on January 30, 2017
A weatherbeaten postbox just outside the Tourist Information Office in the town of St Junien, in the Haute-Vienne département of France.
Mundane Monday
Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow
Posted on December 20, 2014
To fit this week’s theme, another image from the inexhaustible fount of photographic possibilities that is Dubai Mall. This one is a lantern, or chandelier if you prefer. I placed the camera on the floor and hovered around it protectively while the exposure was made.
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