Stefan Fletcher's Landscape Posts
July 17, 2016
Ouilly
It's pronounced "ooo-yi" and it's a château with English, French, Italian and butterfly gardens. Normandy, July 2016
July 16, 2016
Nocturnes
I do like that time of the day, just after dusk, when the battle between artificial and natural lighting starts to take shape. It’s the time of ‘blue hour’ in…
Sept. 20, 2009
My daughter's images
My kid finished her homework suspiciously early on Friday and shot out the house in between rain showers. It turns out she had her LX3 with her. She came back…
Sept. 07, 2009
What to do when kid is digesting scientific notation
Eugène Atget lugged a heavy camera around Paris for thirty years around the turn of the 20th century. My scope is far more modest, but then so are my abilities …
July 27, 2009
City of Light
This is an epithet usually reserved for Paris, but I’ve had a 15-year love affair with the light in Athens, which is scheduled to end on 13 August, when I leave…
June 17, 2009
Lykavittos
The goddess Athena was carrying a bloody big rock to crown the Acropolis (which means “high place” anyway – gods are so into overkill) when she learnt of the…
May 14, 2009
Postcard pictures from Greece
Stuck in an office on a nice sunny day, so I thought I'd post what I call ‘postcard pictures’ of the country I am lucky to live in. Some of these really do live…
May 01, 2009
Friday fun: no jokes, but the City of Peace
As Emerson once said, “consistency is the bugbear of a little mind”, which is my standard excuse for inconsistency, so no jokes today. Instead, I want to tell…
April 30, 2009
Fuck Paris-La Défense
Got my camera back yesterday, as can be seen from the different IQ compared to the iPhone POS. I bloody hate Paris. Every time I go, something big, unpleasant…
April 23, 2009
Florence from the Duomo
In keeping with the excellent suggestion made by more than one of you, I have rotated the image the other way - something to do with isometric exercises. There…
April 22, 2009
Another sadistic panorama
Sorry if you have only just come back from the hospital after viewing yesterday's panorama. Here's another one: a night shot of southern Athens with the…
April 21, 2009
Athens panorama
Whew! If you’ve managed to make it this far, you must be knackered. I have been meaning to post one of my panoramas for a long time, but have been stumped with…
April 14, 2009
Tuesdays at the local culture morgue
I referred to museums as " local culture morgues " in my previous post, a term that struck a chord in more than one viewer. They are beautiful places, full of…
April 08, 2009
Moon shot to pass the time
Judging from my rapidly lengthening hair and teeth this evening, I realised the moon was either full or close to it. I suppose such moments affect us all. As…
April 05, 2009
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
Something of a rant, I’m afraid. And this being a Sunday, too. Apologies to non-English speakers, this is definitely a blog post, not a photo post, but I will…
April 02, 2009
Springtime poppies by the sea
It’s been an unusually dark, wet winter. You can see for yourself: the poppies under the pine trees were taken in the third week of March last year. Those you…
March 21, 2009
Water
Caught myself this morning making a sententious comment in a friend's post [photoblog.com] about ‘smooth water images being rather hackneyed’. It's a fair bet…
March 14, 2009
Survival kit
This is not where I want to be or what I want to do. The important thing is what is the best thing and then work around it. I usually try to find something…