Saturday 5 December 2009

PhotoHunt: curved

Curved. The word conjured up many pleasing images in my mind of roads, bridges and rivers, but I realised as I was looking through my photos that I am particularly fond of curved ceilings - the many different types of vaulted ceilings to be seen in old buildings in particular. But just to show I appreciate other curved things, something different as my final choice.



Medieval covered and vaulted alleys meet at a corner in Sainte Agnes, in the south of France.  A beautiful village with a fascinating history both medieval and from World War II.




Vaulted wine cellars in the Château de Valençay.




From the abbey church of Saint Pierre, Moissac.  This abbey was a stopping place on the pilgrimage routes of Santiago de Compostela through France to Spain.




The Château de Valençay again, this time a gallery opening on to the cour d'honneur.




And finally for something completely different, some gorgeous sculptures of curved, curvy, curvaceous people. 

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22 comments:

  1. __Your quite right... and I fully appreciate these old curves... each adding strenght to each other and to their whole; the strength of structure, and the beauty of sight; the last photo, fully adds.
    __From the haiku world:

    curve meets curve
    and joined in their dance
    stand still
    _m

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  2. I love your choices. I love arches and also like vaulted cielings a great deal. You got some great shots and I like the contrast in styles. The sculpture is fantastic too. Happy weekend.

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  3. I really like this post and photos.
    The last one of the sculpture: I have also s photo of the very same; but it's on an old slide.

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  4. Very nice, A. I could see myself going crazy taking photos of those beautiful curved vaulted ceilings too! :)

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  5. Those are awesome curves - all of them. I really enjoy seeing so many varieties on this theme. Great job! You should try the time exposure with people walking through the scene. I have a series in progress on my blog called 10 Cool Features of Your Digital Camera You Should Learn and Use. You may find some of those interesting. Thanks for visiting my PhotoHunt this week.

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  6. An interesting collection of pics. You have traveled far. The seed pods in the previous post looked like snakes. I was fooled :)

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  7. Yes, curved ceilings are wonderful and so are your pictures for the theme!!
    Lovely choices.

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  8. Such wonderful cileijngs. I love those curvy bods too!

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  9. Great curved ceilings! And that last curved sculpture made me smile.

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  10. Nice photos. Thanks for dropping by.

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  11. Wonderful curves in the old buildings!

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  12. That sculpture is wonderful!

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  13. I always find that a huge sculpture is sitting out by itself on one little point, amazing. The balance is just incredible along with the weight that must be really heavy!

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  14. It amazes me how a curve can be built to stay up! It is like a big cruise ship floating. How do they do that??

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  15. There is nothing better than a roman arch, except perhaps a flying butress :)

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  16. These old architectural curves are quite interesting and charming. Great pics.

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  17. The pics are wonderful, and so are the curves!

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  18. I still like bridges and rivers too. The ceilings are unbelievable.

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  19. Hi A.

    I do like all your selections here. You do a great job of capturing their "poses."

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  20. I like the curved ceilings but it is expensive to construct such beautiful structure in Singapore. Love the curvaceous people. :)

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  21. And the curve is so strong! Well, just look at your pictures :) How very, very old most of them are... more dome homes!

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