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26th May 2017 by
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I have been going to the Chelsea Flower Show for a few years and it is always an enjoyable day out. It represents the ultimate in gardening, even if everything on display is a construct. Ephemeral, the show gardens exist for a brief period with one ultimate aim. To be in peak condition when the […]
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17th May 2017 by
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I will have more to say about Sark, the fourth largest of the Channel Islands, in a later post. In the meantime, here is a shot which I took this morning. After a couple of days of overcast weather with just a bit of sun, the forecast of heavy rain for the day proved to be […]
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13th May 2017 by
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When starting this blog just over a year ago, I was not entirely sure what I would write about. My only idea was to do pieces on anything which came to mind and see how I progressed. As anyone who has been following me for the last few months will observe, my main interest lies […]
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21st April 2017 by
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Ely was close to the route home from Norfolk, so I took the opportunity to stop off there. It is somewhere I have long wanted to visit. The cathedral is the tallest building in the area, dominating the city and its surroundings. It is from this visibility that it derives its nickname, “Ship of the […]
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19th April 2017 by
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If you had asked me where I expected to get my favourite image during my camera club’s long weekend in Norfolk, I would have said How Hill. The River Ant, which is the location of this photo, flows past and is a scenic spot. We had visited the previous day and opted to return for […]
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15th April 2017 by
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Another shot of Norwich Cathedral, this time of the interior looking from the Choir towards the High Altar. The cathedral normally opens later in the morning, but our group had permission for a shoot beforehand when there was no one else around. The only proviso was that we did not enter until after Morning Prayer […]
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13th April 2017 by
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This is what could be described as a “classic” shot of the cloisters at Norwich Cathedral. A polite way of saying that others have done it before. It would be a surprise if they had not; few worthwhile locations are unique in photography, especially in the UK. Only the early pioneers who were shooting their […]
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12th April 2017 by
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Recently, I went with my camera club on a long weekend to Norfolk. It is a part of the country I have not visited since childhood when my parents regularly took the family on holiday to West Runton, near Cromer. Those were idyllic days as the owner of the cottage where we stayed owned a […]
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5th April 2017 by
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There cannot be many jobs which have not changed over several centuries. One such is the position of swanherd at the Swannery in Abbotsbury, Dorset. It dates back at least to the 14th century, with the first written record in 1393. In practice most likely predates that. The swanherd was originally a member of the […]
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12th February 2017 by
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It was cold and it was dull. No complaints about that, it was what the weatherman had predicted. Less welcome was the constant sleet which had not been in the forecast. I had joined the London Region of the RPS for a street walk in the Greenwich area, making sure to wrap up warmly for […]