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Lens-Artists Challenge #400 – The Rule of Three

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The old port lighthouse with three small tenders moored up nearby. If the boats had been more interesting I’d have walked around and made them the main subject, rather than the lighthouse.

Tina has set this weeks challenge – The rule of three. The rule of threes depicts images which contain three subjects. This is a lesser-known photographic concept but perhaps one worthy of further exploration.

I have to say this was a new rule for me. I can’t say I’ve ever deliberately taken a picture with this rule in mind, up until today that is. I could say that I’ve tried to shoot still life subjects, like food, in a triangle around the frame. That very loosely follows the same concept but the objects in those triangles can be very different things and not obviously three distinct items.

We’re currently on holiday in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. So without access to my portfolio at home I went out for a walk this morning and tried to find groups three to photograph for the challenge. Like last weeks Lens Artist tasking, it was another interesting photographic exercise. I’ve ended up with a few images I’m pleased with that I wouldn’t normally have shot. It’s one reason I love Lens Artists, I’m thinking differently and shooting images I wouldn’t shoot – last week and today are two great examples.


I’m typing on an iPad, which is painful, so without further ado here are my challenge images, all shot in Rethymno today…

Colourful rustic chairs outside a local restaurant.
Terracotta plant pots on some colourful steps
Three small windows in a building located in the towns old fortress.
A colourful window display. By now I was starting to realise I was just photographing other people’s ideas for groups of three 😎
I got a bit more creative with this intersection of three roofs.
I did create this group of three and tried to tell a little story with them. They’re take away coffee cups from a local cafe we’ve been visiting. I’ve loads more to collect 😃

Thank you to Tina for hosting and setting another challenging challenge. It’s proper ‘SCHORCHIO’ here so I’m getting back on the sun bed now. I’ll leave you with a lovely sunset shot from last night.

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2026 – All rights reserved

Vintage Lenses – Spring Flowers

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A flower on a Ribes shrub growing in a cottage garden we passed

A sudden spell of good weather has brought our local woodland and gardens to life over the past week or so. The weather here, in the South West of England, has been very wet but mild over the winter. So there have been no hard frosts to kill off delicate plants or hold things back.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #389 – Time To Relax

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Dogs have no trouble relaxing most of the time. My dog is the really lazy hound in the background. The dog in the foreground is her brother, who belongs to my sister.

Anne hosts this weeks challenge which is themed on ‘Time to relax’. My personal routines for relaxing revolve around photography, walking and visiting new places. Nothing particularly special to share with you all so I thought I’d post a few images that fit the theme. You can view Annes original post here.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #368—Looking Back to Lens-Artists Challenge # 106: Autumn

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Autumn is this weeks Lens-Artists ‘Looking Back’ Challenge, set by John. John’s original challenge post is here.

Clustered Bonnet Fungi. A cluster of sulphur tuft mushrooms growing in a damp wet tree hollow.

I don’t have that many Autumn tree or colour images that I could use in this post but what I do have is plenty of Autumn fungi shots so I’ve decided to concentrate on those for my challenge post.

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Photography – Fujifilm XF 80mm F/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens

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A year or so ago I invested in a Fujifilm XF80mm F2.8 Macro lens. It’s an expensive lens to buy new, retailing at over £1000 in the UK. I bought mine second hand from MPB for about £600. It was advertised as mint condition and I wasn’t disappointed, it was like new. I buy all my lenses, used, from MPB these days and I would wholeheartedly recommend them.

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Lens Artist Challenge #341 – Personal Favourites

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Kutubiyya Mosque, Marrakesh. You can’t go in to the mosques in Marrakesh but they didn’t seem to mind you taking pictures from outside. We timed it so we’d be near the mosque at around midday when we knew the doors would be open. This was just a quick grab shot and I had no idea what I had until I processed the image later. I could have easily filled this post with favourite images from Marrakesh.

Tina over at Travels and Trifles has led this week’s Lens-Artist’s challenge. I’ll echo everyone else and say how this was a really tough challenge. It would have been easier to duck out completely but I thought ‘No, I’m going to do it’. I’m posting late because we’ve been away.

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Black Nore Lighthouse, Portishead

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Black Nore Lighthouse at sunset across the Severn Estuary.

Black Nore Lighthouse lies on the Severn Estuary coastline at Portishead, Bristol, UK. The coast path is a short walk from home for us and one of our regular dog walking routes.

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Lens-Artists Challenge #333 – Complementary Colours

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This week our Lens Artists Challenge host is Egidio.

“Complementary colours are those that sit opposite each other on a colour wheel.”

Contrasting colours I spotted in this apartment block against a blue sky in Aruba.
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