Photos, photo challenges
My experience of mountaineering in the Alps and the Himalaya could often be a continuous oscillation between absolute delight and abject misery! My delight was usually a function of clean, fresh air, the people one would meet, companions, the scenery,… Read More ›
My #challengeyourcamera post last week caused a bit of a stir! It was based on the technique known as Photo Splash with which you convert an image to monochrome, then recolour certain parts of the image, usually just a single… Read More ›
I have quite a few followers who have photography fetishes, with doors especially, and more …… you know who you are! Well, it’s time to own up to my own fetish ….. photographically speaking …… it’s bridges. Large, small, steel,… Read More ›
The man in this photo is French, he’s sitting alone outside a wine bar in Beaune, France. It’s early morning, he’s finished his cup of coffee and is possibly wondering what to do next. He takes out a pouch of… Read More ›
My wife’s late father was an avid orchid grower in Kathmandu. He had his own mini nursery on the rooftop of his house in Ason in the centre of old Kathmandu. He propagated them and almost certainly created new clones… Read More ›
For the last couple of weeks my entry into the Which Way Photo Challenge has been in the mountains of Nepal Solu Khumbu and in the snow of the French Alps. This week however my entry is rather more sedate… Read More ›
Last week my Flower of The Day challenge on Cee’s challenge was fulfilled with two different images of Poppies in some nearby fields. One of those photos looked odd …… the poppies were red as you’d expect, but the rest… Read More ›
