TJ’s Household Haiku – Symmetry

6 Aug 20166 Aug 2016

Prompt word: Symmetry Nature balances Dark, light, morning to night time Sun drowns in the sea Welcome to TJ's Household haiku challenge. This week the prompt is "Symmetry" and the picture…

Strange Contrasts

5 Jul 20165 Jul 2016

See how my war horse Sports the latest stirrups Observe my gauntlets In the latest style My blade - Toledo My hauberk - Paris How could any future age Be more fashionable than…

Silver Sea

8 Jun 20168 Jun 2016

Mercurial sea At once so scintillating And yet so profound

In the distance

23 May 201623 May 2016

It is often hard to generate a good shot when you are taken with a wonderful view. Often what seems big to the eye vanishes into nothingness in the photo.…

Whale Bones – Australia

8 May 201618 May 2016

Along our rugged North Western coastline the terrain can become very harsh and unforgiving. We came upon the bones of a whale that had washed up on the rocks and…

Moon platform

4 May 20165 May 2016

Gone the wild woods Gone the green Serving the hard truths of humanity Forgotten the time When the legends lived Under a moon Unstepped upon.   WOODS | LEGEND | WILD…

National Poetry Day

18 Apr 201618 Apr 2016

The 17th is National Poetry Day so I thought a sonnet would not go astray. I loved you through the tender months of spring When flowers bloomed and all the world…

Photo 101 Gallery Post Share

19 Mar 201619 Mar 2016

Here is a compilation of the photos so far, two weeks into Photo 101. If you know how to create a gallery and want to share your own photos in…

Vast Marshes

15 Mar 2016

The prompt for Photo 101 today is "Big". You can't get much better than the Mont St Michel for the sheer bravado of the medieval builders. Considering that they not only…

Photography 101 – Street

8 Mar 20168 Mar 2016

Today's prompt is to create a shot of a street. This is a shot I took of a small lane in Oxford. It came out too bright so I tried…

Harmony

6 Mar 20166 Mar 2016

Here is a little gallery of my more harmonious photographs in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo challenge. The theme? Surprise! "Harmony". Hope you are enjoying a lazy Sunday!…

Here and Now

27 Dec 201527 Dec 2015

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge is for "Here and Now". Here is a shot of our favorite "Port Beach" at Fremantle, Western Australia. I have been going here ever…

Springtime wildflowers

15 Dec 201515 Dec 2015

See the cool morning Drawing up so charmingly A quilt of flowers The Prompts for Ronovan this week are "look  and charm' which are much less horrifying than last week.…

French Friday

27 Nov 201529 Jan 2016

I have just started reading "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for literature for 2015 and already I can see why.…

French Friday

20 Nov 2015

This is a scene we captured from the top of the Tor Solidor overlooking the idyllic town of St Servan one delightful spring day. The little corsair ships with their…