Lens-Artists Challenge #337 – Bold

This week Sofia challenges us to be Bold. Her original challenge post is here. I’ve chosen to use a few pictures based on bold colours, but even bolder design.

Condor Airlines – Red stripes represents ‘Passion’.

These ‘Where’s Wally’ planes are operated by German air carrier Condor. Some of their planes are painted in these simple but striking candy-coloured bold stripes, inspired by “parasols, bath towels and beach chairs.”

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Thursday Doors – The Old Coxswain’s Cottage

This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s the front door to ‘The Old Coxswain’s Cottage’ in Weymouth, Dorset, UK. Its quite an impressive door with a port hole and anchor knocker. I tried looking up some information on the building but couldn’t find very much, other than its a Grade II listed building. We spotted it whilst we were wandering around the harbour in Weymouth a couple of years ago.

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Monochrome Madness #28 – Hands

This weeks theme is from the blog Stupidity Hole and he wants us to submit pictures of HANDS. So here are a few pics from me. I’ve processed them with an old version of Silver Efex which I’ve hardly ever used. I’ll be spending some time exploring it now as I like the results I’ve been able to achieve with it.

A potter busy working in his workshop. We stumbled across him on a holiday in Italy. the guy was happy for me to take a few snaps when I asked. It was good for business, we left with some pottery.
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Thursday Doors – The Stage Door

This is quite an old pic. I took this in 2013 on a visit to the NJ Shore

This is my entry for this weeks ‘Dan’s Thursday Doors’. It’s a nondescript door that, on its own, doesn’t warrant a second look but lots of famous musicians have walked through this stage entrance.

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Monochrome Madness

Fresh sourdough bread, given to us by our neighbour (she’s a superb and generous baker). I think it works well as a BW conversion. I used the Gradient Map process for this image, outlined below.

Last weekend I submitted a few images for the weekly Lens-Artist Challenge, Colour vs Black and White. I rarely convert my images to BW as I’m mostly shooting for stock. I leave it to others to convert my images if they want a BW version. They can’t convert it the other way.

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Thursday Doors – Photo Challenge

Here’s my submission for this weeks Thursday Doors photo challenge. I spotted this note tacked to the front door of a house in the Horfield area of Bristol, UK. It’s quite common to see comical notes like this around our streets. I really like the huge tacks they’ve used to hammer the message home (see what I did there).

Posted for Dan’s Thursday Doors

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved.

Lens-Artists Challenge #334 – Cats and Dogs

This weeks Lens-Artists Challenge #334 – Cats and Dogs. Here’s a link to the original post and challenge set by Tina – Cats and Dogs. Here’s a few of my Cat and Dog images.

This cat we stumbled across in Greece had a bit of a David Bowie look with those eyes.
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Wordless Wednesday – Teddy on a Swing

I thought I’d use Wordless Wednesday to post this image of a sculpture I saw in Bristol today. It’s a teddy on a swing hanging from a bridge.

A teddy bear on a swing underneath Gaol Ferry Bridge, Bristol

I’m pretty wordless because I have no idea what this is all about other than it’s the work of French artist James Colomina. It’s located underneath Gaol Ferry Bridge, Southville, Bristol

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved.