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Hope and Anchor – week 4

My edit for the final week of the March challenge has gone vintage again.  I have used a tight crop to focus on the hexagonal lamp, and have toned down the red […]

Gothenburg Cat

This agile-looking cat is the work of artist and tattooist Christofer “Sagie”, who lives in Gothenburg and can be found at Unikum Tattoo.  His works cover a wide range of topics, but he has a particular passion […]
Gothenburg Cat

Succulents on Cue

The cacti and succulents at Kew Gardens seemed to call out for a spot of monochrome treatment. Linked to Monochrome Feb, Macro Monday and B&W Weds Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 February 2016 […]

Greenery and Pinkery

    Hex colour reference:   EF98AA A colourful note: mauvelous is the name of a 1993 Crayola crayon, a company with rather traditional colour terms until the public naming competition […]

Love is Afloat in Kew

A question posed in Wordpress land this week was “is your current state of mind reflected in your photography?” Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 February 2016     Linked to I’d Rather Be Birdin’

Raining Umbrellas

Hex Colour reference:  C8385A A colourful note: maroon is the term used for a dark brown-red , with the first recorded use of this as an English colour name in 1789.  The name comes from […]

Alfred Hitchcock at the Rovers Return

Back in 1964 Alfred Hitchcock was captured o camera as he peered through the doors of Coronation Street’s Rovers Return pub. In 2015, the TV Times magazine celebrated its 60th anniversary […]

Mango Tango with Pippi

The super-strong, super-assertive and red-headed child, Pippi Longstocking, is loved around the world. The first book featuring her was published in Sweden in 1945 and her creator, Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), rapidly earned fame. […]