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Tour EDF

April 04, 2015 • 1 Comment

This is another attempt at capturing the subtelty of this interestingly designed building at La Defense in Paris. Its shapes and surfaces always interact beautifully with the light, whatever the season, the time or the weather. Shapes I played around with cropping quite a lot before settling on the composition that satisfied me. My intent fro...

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Dilemmas

March 28, 2015 • 2 Comments

Is Colour Best? Art appreciation depends on an individual’s physical condition, particularly the wide variety of visual abberations from which our individual eyesights suffer, including response to colours and – even more importantly in my view - the choices we have made in life to develope the set of visual, intellectual and emotional standards...

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Fly Me To The Moon

March 23, 2015 • 1 Comment

“…and let me play among the stars”. This one is for all the astronauts out there. Asterisms Viewing things “out there” that, although at enormously different distances from each other, apparently line up and create an interesting, but false, image is known in astronomy as an asterism. The most famous one is the Plough or Big Dipper (depending...

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Les Toits de Paris

March 14, 2015 • 2 Comments

The roofs of Paris have an eternal fascination for photographers. I have seen many taken from the heights of Montmartre, but my angle of view this time was face-on to the Basilica which, for me, gives a more intimate feel to the “Butte” when connected to the Parisian roof scene. As for so many other visitors, there is something about viewing Par...

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Mississippi sur Loire

March 06, 2015 • 1 Comment

A moss-covered, drowning tree trails its twigs in the languorous flow of a dawn-impregnated river. The sun peeps through the mist over the dim, far bank, preparing a hot new day in the Deep South. Except that this is not Missouri, but Beaugency sur Loire, in the Loiret, another favourite spot of mine, downstream from the medieval town, where thi...

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