autofantasia's photos with the keyword: paint

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which was entitled The Writing's On The Wall . Although it can mean that there are clear signs that something will fail or no longer exist, I decided early on to go for the phrase in it's most literal sense. However, I only had an hour spare last week to wander around Northallerton looking for something to shoot and despite going up just about every alley and ginnel l could find there was a real absence of anything suitable. In fact, there was very little graffiti and most of what there was I decided might be, how can I put it, inappropriate for the challenge. So in the end, the best I could come up with was this close-up shot of something sprayed onto an old brick wall after all nobody said you needed to be able to read the writing. I liked the colour of the paint and the bricks lent themselves to some strong processing to bring out the colours and contrasts like I've tried to do here. Not great, but the best I could do this week. I wasn't even going to post it, but have decided at the last minute that something is better than nothing ... so, here it is!

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of indulgence . Now, if I won the lottery my indulgences would certainly increase dramatically, but as it is (apart from my old Scirocco) I have few indulgences and those that I do have are fairly simple and common place ... most notably chocolate! However, not just any chocolate. For me, when it comes to indulging myself it has to be Lindt LINDOR balls ... preferably from the fridge! As they say on their website they make for the perfect blissful treat ... "With a milk chocolate shell and an irresistibly smooth melting filling, once you've broken the shell the filling will start to melt, and so will you."

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of diptych . Taken from a series of shots I took last September and combined in Photoshop where I also applied some 'painterly' processing to finish it off. Possibly best viewed large on black.

I wasn't expecting to see a modified, but very modern Vauxhall at an event dedicated to all things VAG. However, I was quite taken by the paintjob as, unless I'm very much mistaken, it's Mirra which produces a fantastic irridescence like what you see here. You see back in the late Seventies and early Eighties (when I was just a lad) I produced several customised push bikes and two of them had Mirra flake paint applied over black ... happy days, of sorts!