Bees in the garden

Bees collecting pollen…

Both images taken with a Canon 100mm f2.8 macro & Canon 5D MKII

Weekly Photo Challenge – Summer

Summer – Pont d’Avignon

This is the famous bridge in Avignon that goes most of the way across the Rhone. The title of this week’s challenge is Summer, although this was taken at the beginning of October it was like a summer’s day with strong sunshine beautiful blue skies and long shadows oh and a wonderful reflection of the bridge.
If you look closely you can see a man taking a photo on the bridge and just behind where I stood to take this a woman sat on the bank under a tree sketching the scene. Avignon is lovely, if you haven’t been its a really nice place to relax and the end of September is a great time to go.

Pont d’Avignon

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Hands

Accordian player in Avignon

Weekly Photo Challenge – Blue

Blue

The challenge is simply titled blue. Avoiding the obvious shots of the sea and sky I thought about a shot of the blue liquer curaçao but we don’t have any. What we do have is a clump of Forget-me-nots.   

Weekly Photo Challenge – Unfocussed

The cyclist…..

If you did a poll among photographers I am fairly certain 99.9 % would not want to show you images out of focus, unless of course there was some merit to it being shot that way. Then we would call it “Art”.
This is a shot I took with a Fuji X100 it wasn’t intentionally out of focus, in fact I was quite disappointed that it lacked sharpness – anywhere! The X100 is a great camera and to take a good picture of an object going past you it is necessary to pan with the subject, sadly the auto-focus was unable to lock on to the cyclist as she was coming toward me quite quickly. Had the post in the foreground been sharp I might have got away with it but….. Hope you like it anyway.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Together

Next time you use the underground, metro or subway you will probably be joined by dozens if not hundreds of people united in their desire to travel somewhere quickly and with a minimum of fuss. Thousands travel together everyday without ever exchanging a single word with the person next to them. Amazing.

I took this from the window of our room at the Hilton Hotel where we stayed prior to taking the Eurostar to Paris from Ebbsfleet.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Sun

 

I spent some time looking through sunsets to find a picture that related to the topic but wasn’t too obvious.

I’ve settled on this image taken at Southampton airport last October from the departure lounge, you can see one of the Flybe fleet of aircraft.

Its 6:47 am and the sun is starting to come up.
Taken on an iPhone 4 through the thick security glass. Hope you like it

Weekly Photo Challenge – two subjects

La Grande Arche at La Défense

A man sits on the steps under La Grande Arche at La Défense looking towards the centre of Paris. The two subjects are the man and the architecture but then you knew that anyway.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Journeys

Pere La Chaise metro.

The starting point for scores of Parisians on their way to work and also the final resting place of many famous people in Paris. Edith Piaf and Jim Morrison are just two of the those buried in the cemetery across the street from the Metro entrance.