On Sunday afternoon, the weather was just awful, windy, rainy, grey. So I took my new pentax camera, the one that takes close-up photos and started looking for subjects around the flat. There was an insect on the window-pane, so I photographed him :

And then I remembered some photos I had seen on flickr and turned the camera to my eye! And this is what I came up with:

I held the camera about two centimeters from my eye. Isn’t it spooky?

Then I posted the photo on flickr

and 185queens came up with a cutout, (an image which is predominantly black and white, with the original colour elements showing. Usually created in a photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop) something that I didn’t even know existed before I joined flickr.

I must say that I like the cutout better than the original photo. On the cutout, you can’t say I hadn’t had enough sleep that night

I touched him and he was soft and clean

At Hermival les Vaux, near Lisieux in Normandy, there’s this large animal park where they have wild animals but also in a field, farm animals that children can see up close and pet. This soft and curly fellow was there.

A visit to Poissy, some twenty-five kilometres west of Paris, which I pass every time I go to Normandy, but where I had never stopped set me remembering.
Poissy has a beautiful church, la Collégiale, and also quite a large and interesting Toy Museum, where I saw this blurry baby. I wish I had been more patient when taking this photo as it would probably be crisper.

I had two of these celluloid dolls and at the museum learnt that they had stopped making them because they were highly flammable. One of my dolls had a broken nose and was my favourite. I read them stories and liked them much better than a fancy doll I was offered at one point.
They were such good listeners!
My grandmother had knitted this baby a red and white outfit, including a little hat and I really cherished that doll. When my daughter was born, I knitted her red and white clothes just like that little doll’s.

More of my Poissy photos here