paris – bushboys world

Bridge – Pont Alexandre III, Paris

Published on August 15, 2021 by bushboy22 Comments

Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Bridge

The Pont Alexandre III is one of the most emblematic bridges in Paris because of its architecture and location. Pont Alexandre III connects les Invalides on the Left Bank to the Grand Palais and Petit Palais on the Right Bank. The single long, low arch of the bridge, with its Beaux Arts and Art Nouveau décor, exemplifies the Parisian Belle Époque (“Beautiful Era”) of 1871 to 1914

At its four extremities are huge 17 metre-high pylons crowned with gilt bronze sculptures of winged horses representing the Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Industry.

The stairs to my Paris apartment

Published on August 12, 2021 by bushboy9 Comments

A Photo a Week Challenge: Natural Lighting

Public art – sculptures

Published on June 26, 2021 by bushboy22 Comments

The PPAC: Photographing Public Art Challenge #2

Not a real tree

Modern art

Not a real flower

Characters from the Australian book The Magic Pudding in Norman Lindsay’s, the author, house/museum

From Paris

Probably the most famous public art fountain – any guesses?

Wordless Wednesday 23 June

Published on June 23, 2021June 22, 2021 by bushboy25 Comments

More Markets

Published on May 27, 2021 by bushboy12 Comments

The Weekly Prompts Wednesday: Farmers Markets

I don’t really like some of the photos I have taken over the past few years at Farmers Markets around here so perhaps a few should suffice.

Let’s go over there

Published on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 by bushboy8 Comments

The Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #140: A Change of Scenery

As we are travelling a bit, let’s take some music with us. This is an Aussie band called Fraternity. You may recognised the singer playing the recorder. It’s Bon Scott, the lead singer of ACDC when they first started out, before his time in ACDC.

London

Paris

Madrid

Rome

Vienna

Luss, Scotland

Seoul, South Korea

Sydney

But it’s always good to come home

Rather special

Published on March 18, 2021 by bushboy30 Comments

The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #139: Special Moments

A few special moments to share.

A Wanderer Butterfly coming to rest on my besties hand for a while

Having help when I really needed it while working under my car

Having chickens hatch

Having a critically endangered Regent Honeyeater visit my garden

Taking a super bad photo of a very shy and almost rare (in my area) Regent Bowerbird. One quick photo and it was gone.

Having a Eastern Yellow Robin come and sit on the back of a chair while you are having a bite to eat in the garden. He came around often at my besties old place. We called him Bobbin

Finding a Nobbi Lizard at one of my favourite places, the Raspberry Lookout, after the fires of the Summer of 2019

Discovering a Hakea flurolenta on my place for the first time. I haven’t seen it since those fires but hope it may return in time.

Discovering the delights of Paris and Venice for the first time

A little green

Published on March 7, 2021 by bushboy32 Comments

This months Life in Colour: Green

Jude asked that “It’s easy to find shades of green in nature, but what else can you discover?” So my quest is to find a few things that aren’t nature. Should I struggle? What do you think? This post will be a little green.

A cart so green
with eggs so clean

Street art green
must be seen

Don’t be mean
shoot that green

Lost it’s sheen
now a green

Italian shutters green
must be seen

Art piece of choice
green or turquoise

Always seen
being green

Bye

Once a knight

Published on March 4, 2021 by bushboy25 Comments

Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Brandish

Here is a song that I have loved since I first heard it. An Australian group of schoolkids, King Fox, won a Battle of the Bands doing a version of this song.

OK….now onto my
Knight of the Rooves
Always there,
brandishing his fearful very spikey
whatsit
guarding the roof tops
of Paris.
Sir Tuyau de Cheminée
has many other guards
ready to go
at the first sign
of trouble.

All lined up,
their steely gaze
seems to just drift
over your head.
You decide to go
remembering what
has been said
turn to loook
one more time
One day things
will get hot
around here