Friday 29 September 2017

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles



Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles

This week the topic is Lines and Angles.  Lines can either be straight or crooked.  Angles and lines can be connected together which will give us angles.  Sometimes you might just find a lot of angles.  Think about windows, frames, etc.  

Here is my entry for this week:
An old building in Tenterden High Street.  

Entrance hall Ellen Terry museum

Lock at Teston Country Park

My under stairs ‘crafty corner’ my hubby made for me – unfortunately it doesn’t look as neat nowadays!

Exhibit at the Spitfire museum

Willesborough W.I. (Women’s Institute) building

TV aerial on chimney with telegraph wires

Cephalopod Coffeehouse: September 2017





Hosted by The Armchair Squid who says: 

Welcome one and all to the Cephalopod Coffeehouse, a cozy gathering of book lovers, meeting to discuss their thoughts regarding the works they enjoyed most over the previous month.  Pull up a chair, order your cappuccino and join in the fun. 


This is a 5* read in my opinion. I have read quite a few of Toby Neal's books and can recommend all of them.  


Here is the blurb from Amazon 

Special Agent Sophie Ang's emotions are battered by a child kidnapping case that goes badly wrong. In tracking the criminal ring, her rogue data analysis program D.A.V.I.D. identifies an anomaly that leads her into a cat-and-mouse game online with a deadly enemy whose motives are unclear. The chase lures her through dark corridors of cyberspace into a confrontation with the violence from her past that sent her fleeing to the United States. She'll need every skill she's learned to defeat her worst nightmare--and the stakes couldn't be higher. 

Can Sophie both defeat her past, and protect her heart from a fascinating cyber vigilante?

MY REVIEW

This is the first book (270 pages) in the Paradise Crime Series by Toby Neal, classed as a cyberspace thriller/police procedure mystery.

Special Agent Sophie Ang is a FBI Agent, a martial artist who has escaped an abusive marriage.  The book opens with a bang and a rescue of a kidnapped child.


This is a well written novel, fast paced, action police procedure story with layers of cyber stuff written so well that even a technophobic reader like myself can understand it without getting bogged down in ‘cyber speak.’  It is a psychological thriller as well and all the layers are woven together effortlessly.  

A great book. 

If you like police procedural/mystery/thriller books with added bits and pieces, well written prose, no jumping around, a nice flow, good pace and great characters then you will enjoy this book. 

Thursday 28 September 2017

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers


Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers


This week is Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers.


Here is my entry:

Fun at the Fair

Flowers on the table at a pub

Silk flowers

Geraniums in a tub

Hanging baskets

Friday 22 September 2017

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Back of Things




Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Back of Things


This week the topic is Back of Things.

https://ceenphotography.com/2017/09/21/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-back-of-things-2/


HERE IS MY ENTRY:

The back of a wedding car

The beautiful bride.

A machine at a building site

A fisherman


And slightly downstream or it might be upstream a second fisherman

A highway maintenance truck and the back of a motorbike


N.B.
Upcoming Topics for this challenge are:
For a list of upcoming topics, please see the list below.  Be creative and challenge yourself.  For a great black and white photo look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph.
  • Lines and Angles
  • All Things Farm Related
  • Indoor Walkways, Hallways, Elevators
  • In the Distance
  • Bricks or Stone
  • Pets

Wednesday 20 September 2017



Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter E 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter E – Needs to have two E’s in the topic word

This week is Letter E – Needs to have two E’s in the topic word (needle, elephant, geese, peek, jeep, eye, etc.). 

Here is my entry for this week:

Keepsake of the Eiffel Tower

Sheep crossing the road

Old fashioned telephone

The Wheel Inn

Green beetle wings used to make the dress following

A Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings that was worn by one of the most famous actresses of the era has been restored at a cost of £50,000.

The emerald and sea green gown - worn by Ellen Terry when she played Lady Macbeth at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1888 - is now on display in Smallhythe Place, Kent.

It is covered with the iridescent wings of the jewel beetle which the insects naturally shed as part of their life cycle.

More information found can be found here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1366616/Victorian-beetle-wing-dress-worn-Ellen-Terry-display-50k-repair-job.html

Thursday 14 September 2017

Cee's Black and White Photo - Candid Shots


Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Candid Shots

Cee Says:
This week the topic is Candid Shots (human or animal). I want to see photographs unposed people, family, friends, pets, animals in the wild.   


My selection this week includes, my cat, my son’s dog and my grandson

This is Bella.

Bella heard the sound of her food being poured in to her bowl.


My son’s Huskita patiently waiting ………

This is Loki, rewarded with a titbit (cheese I think)

My grandson running on the beach

My grandson helping with the shopping but not quite making it over the threshold.  
Luckily, he didn’t hurt himself. 

Wednesday 13 September 2017

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge - letter D


Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter D – 4 letters words that start with D


The Current Series – Alphabet with a Twist 

This week is Letter D – 4 letters words that start with D (dogs, doll, dark, drab, date, dawn, dock, duck, dust, etc.).  


Here is my entry:

Doll with mop cap

Four dolls with bonnets

Dolly Parton look-a-like singer who performed at a local theatre. 

Knitted Dalek square. 

Silver dragons

Miniature ducks.

Thursday 7 September 2017

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Texture


Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Texture



This week the topic is Texture. Everything has some kind of texture, so this topic is wide open for interpretation and this week is all about how it feels to touch. 

HERE IS MY ENTRY:

Knitted hair bands

Jed, Panda bear.

Wall made of shells

Rose and silver leaf decoration on wedding cake

Wednesday 6 September 2017

Cee's Foto Fun Challenge: C - the C word needs to be at least four letters in length

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: C – The C word needs to be at least 4 letters in length

This week is Letter C – The C word needs to be at least 4 letters in length. 

The Current Series – Alphabet with a Twist  - join in with us
·       Letter C – The C word needs to be at least 4 letters in length

·       Letter D – 4 letters words that start with D (dogs, das, doll, dark, drab, date, dawn, dock, duck, dust, etc.)
·       Letter E – Needs to have two E’s in the topic (needle, elephant, geese, peek, jeep, eye, etc.)
·       Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers
·       Letter G – Needs to have the letter G (log, goggle, geometry, lodge)
·       Letter H – Topic for this week is Happy
·       Letter I – Needs to start with the letter I
·       Letter J – Needs to contain the Letter J and be at least 6 letters long (juggler, jackpot, bluejay, enjoying, subject, pajamas)

·       Letter K – Needs to have the letter K anywhere in the word (knife, kite, kick, back, racket, etc.)·       Letter L – Needs to have at least two syllables (lollipop, label, luxury, lighthouse, lumber, lilac, etc.)

Here is my C  selection for this week: 

Cannon at Orford Castle

Cannon balls at Goodrich Castle

Chanel Chance Eau de Toilette

Chance Chanel – unfortunately my bottle is now empty 

Cheese platter

Chess on the lawn

Chickens roaming free