I'm in Europe but feel that this visual message needs spreading... so just ordered a bunch of these buttons and stickers for passing around. Take a look at their website for more positive thoughts to wear and share! dzynwrldbuttons.bigcartel.com

Spotted this super-condition Renault 4 GTL "Clan" in Le Blanc. The 4L had a 33-year production run from 1961 to 1994 with more than 8 million manufactured. The 1978 GTL had a 1.1 litre engine providing 34hp (DIN), allowing for a top speed of about 120kph. #BlueSkyMonday #Motoring #Renault #France

One of my several complicated collages composed of overlapping zig-zag angled shapes of blue cartridge papers. The original idea for the angled shapes is based on the fortified walls of the 17th century French military engineer General Vauban. #BlueSkyMonday #Art #Artwork #Collage #ZigZag

Just read the 386-page dystopian novel "VOX" by Christina Dalcher in four evenings, which is fast for me; at times I couldn't put it down. Very disturbing and not a million miles from how some in the current US Repugnant administration would think and act. #BlueskyBooks #Book #VOX #ChristinaDalcher

Between rendezvous in Tours during the week I again heard a familiar "honk-honk" and managed to grab a few shots of this well-known couple who whiz around the city center most days causing people to pause and smile and offer a wave... sounds a happy scenario to me! #Cycling #Tandem #Tours #France

Yesterday I spotted a 1927 Austin 7 driving through the central French town of Le Blanc, in the Indre department; the Sussex owners having a spin in the French countryside. This particular car was manufactured 98 years ago so will soon celebrate its 100-year anniversary. #Austin7 #Motoring #France

I've worked for newspapers so a hero is Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, the German-born founder of the news agency which bears his name. In 1851 he opened a telegraph office near the London Stock Exchange where in 1980 I took a photo of this memorial. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Reuter #Nikon

"The Fall of the Rebel Angels" is an oil painting by Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder made in 1562. This 1000-piece jig-saw completed last evening shows a different take to my 'gold' post three days ago of the Angel slaying Lucifer statue on a church in Vienna. #Jigsaw #Artwork #Bruegel

I've never ridden a motorbike, but Barry Sheene was my hero racing on two-wheels. Here, at the TransAtlantic Easter meeting at Oulton Park in 1974, I caught him popping the victory champagne... as he caught me with the spray. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Motorcycling #BarrySheene #Nikon

Not on this occasion, but this particular team of pompiers, the aircrew, medical staff and helicopter got me into surgery in 45 minutes, in CHU Tours 70 km distant, and so my life was saved after a shock heart attack in 2014. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Helicopter #Airbus #France #Nikon

Since I've bought almost one hundred fiction books in the past couple of years, but have read only a third, I've created a listing on StoryGraph to keep track of everything; bought, read, reading, to read, etc. It's a neat site with your trends listed and recommendations proffered. #Books #Fiction

A double-header from a 'golden hour' visit. MAS, The "Museum aan de Stroom" (Dutch for 'Museum by the Stream'), located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Antwerp #Nikon

A golden winged angel figure holding two lightning bolts seen high on top of a corner of the recently renovated INNO department store building on the corner of Meir and Leysstraat in Antwerp, Belgium. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Antwerp #Belgium #Nikon

The richly gold decorated Anker astronomical clock, constructed between 1911 and 1917 on a bridge joining two buildings owned by the Anker (now Helvetia) Insurance Company. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Vienna #Nikon

Above the entrance to the Church of St. Michael on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna, Austria, a group of winged angels and St. Michael with a golden sword and shield slaying Lucifer; figures executed by the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Mattielli in 1725. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Vienna #Nikon

Some 10 km away from Golden, Colorado, is the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, famous for concerts. Here in the park the warning road-sign and natural rock formation compete for the 'gold' tag... perhaps one is too yellow, the other too red? #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #RedRocks #Colorado #USA

The distinctive gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver is covered with real gold leaf; first added in 1908 to commemorate the Colorado Gold Rush. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Denver #Colorado #Nikon

Can't post much this week... busy on another project! But, cycling back from the shops last evening the golden setting sun, low in the sky, cast my shadow on the edge of the shrubbery woodland at the side of the road... click, click, click... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Cycling

Didn't realise one could do this, but I've muted any and all posts with "Trump" and "Musk" in their content for the next 30 days by adding those two names in the "muted words and tags" setting. I simply detest both men and don't want even their names in front of my eyes... it's enough in newspapers!

A very good article about blind photographer Peter Eckert worth reading and thinking about...

I've added another 49 photographers using alt.text to my original list. Why 49? Because one is an artist - eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social - who writes possibly the best alt.text on Bluesky, and I want people to see what he does and take a big hint, because visually impaired Blueskyers need it!!

The "Red Curtain Trilogy" is the title given to the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann... "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), William Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" (1996) and "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). These three were included in a "Red Curtain Trilogy" DVD box set. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms

"The Last Post" - a 1929 British silent drama film (now sadly lost) directed by Dinah Shurey, the only British female director and producer at that time. It told the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Mail

“Pennies from Heaven” - a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, so Chicago replaced London as a location. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Money

“The Numbers Game” - a 1987 Italian movie written, directed and acted in by Giancarlo Giannini with Victoria Abril when, on a hot summer night the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled! Guess his number was up! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #RuralFrance #Numbers

"Lost Souls" - a 2000 American apocalyptic supernatural horror film directed by Janusz Kamiński in his directorial debut; starring Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas and John Hurt. If one boot's missing in the photo, is it a lost sole? Groan! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #RuralFrance

Going out on a limb here without a film title, but the National Trust village of Lacock was the location for several films and TV series including Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Cranford, The Hollow Crown and Wolf Hall. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Lacock #NationalTrust

"Whisky Galore!" - a 1949 British comedy film from Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. The screenplay by Compton Mackenzie was an adaptation of his 1947 novel which sold several million copies. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Rubbish #Alcohol

"The Towering Inferno" - a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. The image is one of my more than a thousand abstract collage exercises! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Art #Collage

“A Bigger Splash” - a 2015 psychological drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. Loosely based on Jacques Deray's 1969 film ‘La Piscine’ and named after the 1967 David Hockney painting. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Sport #Royalty #PrincessAnne #Nikon

"The Birds" - a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock for Universal Pictures; introducing Tippi Hedren in her film debut. Loosely based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Metalwork #Nikon

“Easy Rider” - a 1969 American road drama film written and produced by Peter Fonda and directed by Dennis Hopper who also play the two bikers who travel through the American Southwest with the proceeds from a cocaine deal. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #EasyRider #Indian #Motorcycle #Nikon

"Bambi" - a 1942 American animated coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods'. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms ##Bambi #Disney #Nikon

“Orient Express” - a 1927 German silent thriller film directed by Wilhelm Thiele. And another “Orient Express” - a 1934 American drama film directed by Paul Martin based on the 1932 novel ‘Stamboul Train’ by Graham Greene. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Railway #Locomotive #Model #Nikon

Art books on my shelves No.026... "The Bauhaus" 328pp, pub. 1993 Overlook Press, NY, is the first fully illustrated 'art book' reproducing many of the most notable Bauhaus designs alongside writings by the artists and designers themselves. #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf #Design #Bauhaus

"Stairway To Heaven" (US title) a 1946 British fantasy-romance film called "A Matter of Life and Death" set in England during World War II with David Niven... the film's most prominent special effect was a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Heaven

"Safari" - a 1956 British CinemaScope adventure film directed by Terence Young and set in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising, starring Victor Mature and Janet Leigh. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Giraffe #Nikon

"The Big Sleep" - a 1946 American 'film noir' directed by Howard Hawks adapted from Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall. But here is Wi-Fi again, asleep on my artwork. Grrr! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Cat #Nikon

Art books on my shelves No.025... "Graver la Lumière" 208pp, pub. 5 Continents Editions to accompany the major etchings exhibition held at the Musée Marmottan Monet in 2023. I could have spent all day there, but, downstairs was the Monet permanent collection! #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf

This morning, as a weak sun penetrated the fog, a strange reflection appeared in my bedroom office cast, I discovered, by a slightly bent sheet of cellophane on my worktop. The artwork is "Shibuya Crossing No.1" a 115 x 75 cm abstract acrylic. #Art #AbstractArt #AcrylicArt #GeometricArt #Shibuya

“The Net” - an American action thriller film produced by Columbia in 1995, directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam. I have the video and having watched it three times think it's better than the average reviews of 5.3/10. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Net #Nikon

None of the movies with 'red' in their titles seemed appropriate so I'm going out on a limb to blow my own trum... euphonium with "Captain Horatio Hornblower" - a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Red #Euphonium #Instrument

"On the Beach" - a 1959 American post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. Based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel "On the Beach" depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Seaside #Nikon

Light a Phénix or "The Flight of the Phoenix" - a 1965 American air-crash survival drama film set in the Sahara desert, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by English author Elleston Trevor. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Phoenix #Graphics #Tobacco

Art books on my shelves No.024... "Tatlin" 2 vols, 240pp (illustrated) +320pp (text), pub. Hatje Cantz in Russian, German and English to accompany the major Vladimir Tatlin exhibition held at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland in 2012. #Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf #Tatlin #Russian

"The Invisible Man" is a 2020 sci-fi horror film loosely based on H. G. Wells's 1897 novel, and a remake of the classic 1933 film of the same name... although I doubt if it beats the book! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #InvisibleMan #Scarecrow #RuralFrance #Nikon

"PENTACLUB (The Club of Five)" was a nominee of the Montreal Independent Film Festival and tells of five teenage boys dream in 1968 of running a movie theater in which they will not show pro-war films. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #PlayingCard #FiveOfClubs #Movies

OK, a bit obvious... "Marathon Man" the 1976 American thriller film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman. I deduct ten minutes from the inscribed time because it took that long to get through the start gate of Greenwich Park! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Sport #Marathon

At art college in 1964 I watched "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" or "Lift to the Scaffold", a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle starring French actress Jeanne Moreau (of "Jules et Jim" fame and viewed four times). #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #FrenchFilm

Current US affairs make me think of Hunter S. Thompson's very apt words written almost half a century ago in "The Great Shark Hunt". "Nixon... by bringing in hundreds of thugs, fixers and fascists to run the Government, he was able to crank almost every problem he touched into a mindbending crisis."