Category Archives: challenge

Weekly Photograph Challenge: Shadow

Posted on February 12, 2017 by

Late summer sun in January. Alfie and me walking on Cleeve Hill overlooking Cheltenham with rays cast almost horizontal with the Earth. ‘shadow – a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light on a … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: H2O

Posted on October 9, 2016 by

Water water everywhere… Here water is contained and harnessed to drive the Industrial Revolution through networks of canals dug by hand by gangs of ‘navigators’ known as ‘navvies’. Canals were overtaken and gradually replaced by improved roads and railways. By … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photograph Challenge: Look Up

Posted on July 10, 2016 by

Quite by chance I looked up and saw these ‘gargoyles’ on a renovated building while pootling about in the endlessly fascinating Shropshire town of Ludlow yesterday though it rained SO hard in the morning, it should be called ‘Floodlow’ I … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photograph Challenge: Spare

Posted on May 27, 2016 by

A frugal challenge this week and I’ve been wracking my brains for a creative post; driven spare you might say. So I give you ‘spare’ meaning one extra: the spare wheel on my Subaru Legacy.  When did you last look … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge : Half and Half

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

Half and Half I love Photo Challenges. I rummage about in the depository of  photographs taken over the years; the challenge firmly fixed in my mind. Most times I find first-time exactly the photo to fit the challenge, other times … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photograph Challenge: On the Way (up)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

On the way (IN) Birmingham Library, England. Designed by Francine Houben of Mecanoo Architecten. High tech, post-modern in design. MODERN On the way (OUT) Two for the price of one: WordPress weekly photo challenge AND Travel themes: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_challenge/on the way … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photograph Challenge: Reward

Posted on March 3, 2015 by

You don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t make the effort you haven’t deserved the reward. You build a dry-stone wall and you can rightly step back and be proud of your achievement and you deserve your reward, at … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Posted on February 15, 2015 by

Symmetry…symmetrees. I have always loved symmetry. I organise myself around symmetry: two wives, double helpings of desert, even learning to be  ambidextrous, hands and feet. I clean my teeth with both hands. (?) As a child I insisted on a centre … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

Posted on February 7, 2015 by

Weekly Photo Challenge is Scale, the juxtapose of one image to another to illustrate relative size. Here is a little story with huge implications… Polly are you scared of heights? No not really, Polly replied though as the wind gusted … Continue reading →

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Travel Theme/Where’s my Backpack: Industry

Posted on January 25, 2015 by

Lithography Museum of Cadiz, San Roque (Lithography: from the Greek ‘lithos’, stone and ‘graphein’, to write) This  wonderful museum is home to over a thousand printing stones bearing witness to the thriving commercial and industrial economy of the city. These giant machine … Continue reading →

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