This week we were invited to share a piece of photo art featuring lines, angles and/or graphic elements. This is the MUDAM building aka Musee d’Art Moderne (Museum of Modern Art) in Luxembourg and the building itself fits the title perfectly. I have added a French Kiss texture appropriately called “geometry” which I blended in [...]
As there was no official weekly photo challenge this week, Ailsa at Where’s my backpack? has posted a challenge and would love you all to join in. See here:: http://wheresmybackpack.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/reflections/ I have always loved taking photographs of reflections. It was hard to choose one single one so I’ve uploaded several. This is the fontaine de [...]
This week in Kim Klassen’s Beyond Layers course we were on the lookout for colour. We were encouraged to go out and take photos of different colours for each day of the week. However, since life rarely runs smoothly, we could raid our archives if necessary. All the following photos were taken during the last [...]
the options for the challenge for 16-18 March were: 1. any piece of photo art you wish to ‘hang’ 2. a piece of photo art with some element in it that is hidden in plain sight 3. a piece of photo art highlighting the color green … it will soon be St. Patrick’s Day after [...]
This summer we spent two separate weeks cat-sitting for friends of ours in Germany. They live in a converted railway station building. with wonderful views across the Moselle valley vineyards in their garden are silver birch trees with the old bark peeling off to reveal the beautiful new bark underneath red poppies late afternoon sun [...]
The bi-annual Art’Lenster art exhibition took place over this last weekend in March . 117 exhibitors, both amateurs and professionals, exhibited their work in 6 villages within the commune of Junglinster. We went along to have a look as two of our friends were exhibiting. There were stuffed teddy bears, jewellry, glass beads, photography, lots [...]
A couple of days before Christmas we went to Bath for the day to do some last-minute Christmas shopping and to go to that most British of theatrical offerings, the pantomime – Aladdin – in the recently and beautifully refurbished Theatre Royal in Bath. We started off by visiting Mr B’s, an independent bookseller and [...]
There are shrines all over the place in Luxembourg, most villages have one and you’ll find lots of wayside calvaries dotted around the countryside. Some of them are more unusual than others. The virgin in the tree trunk is situated at the outskirts of the small village of Hersberg. The oak tree in which the [...]
Here is a selection of photos taken over the last few weeks: bouquets of flowers for sale in the market in Trier, Germany also in Trier, this beautiful recycled wooden chair and the wrought ironwork sign for the museum of toys (I still haven’t visited this!) in Arlon, Belgium, one of the stalls at my [...]
A Council of Europe initiative, the European cultural heritage days take place in September in some 50 countries. They provide an opportunity to visit monuments and sites and thus develop an appreciation of our cultural heritage. On Sunday 19 September the Chateau de Septfontaine (literally the 7-fountain castle) opened its doors to the public. Villeroy [...]
