Isn’t this what France is all about? Lazy brunches, long lunches of french onion soup and crepes, and dinner served on the cobbles. The outside cafes and restaurants of Saumur were a delight – not only for the food they…
We’ve called this photo ‘Ancient Eruption’. It features massive spears of rock which rise into the sky near Mont Blanc, France. I share this to continue our French theme this week here on Taraji Blue. This picture continues our week…
To continue our French theme this week, I am sharing this image of Saumur Castle. I love its position, not only high above the city it’s also elevated above a number of walkways from where you can obtain an unusual…
I could not celebrate France without sharing this photo. It features three lonely sunflowers in a field of companions who have passed on. We’d missed the sunflower season and were accustomed to seeing row upon row of dead flowers in…
A lonesome farm building in the Loire Valley, France, captured in wide angle. I really love the soil patterns and the way they lead they eye to the abandoned old building. I wonder who lived there? When and why they…
This week we’re continuing to celebrate France on Taraji Blue. This image was taken in the Loire Valley in the middle of a field of sunflowers. Armed with a ladder, torch and bug spray we set out at midnight to…
This week on Taraji Blue we’re going all French. We’ll be sharing photos daily from this beautiful country. In this photo, sunflowers gaze across an empty field, seemingly mourning the loss of their friends. We were lucky to find a…
I’m always striving for the best colours and exposures from my images – ideally so I need to do as little post processing as possible. Not only because this makes my life a lot easier, but it also gives me…
There comes a point with macro photography where you can genuinely scare yourself silly with the proximity you get to insects and the detail you end up revealing. For me, this is very much the case with anything large and ‘buzzy’. It used to…
I’m afraid this is not an epic world war tale of heroism and bravery. More a cautionary tale about the dangers of mixing two very keen, over-worked and overenthusiastic amateur photographers with a new landscape and too much sunshine 🙂 Allow me to explain… We have just returned from a glorious week in the Loire…