Shooting directly into the sun on a summers evening on the deck.
Evening sunlight
Evening light
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Bygone times
An old building on the Dunham Massey Estate in Cheshire. Taken at around 1 p.m on a sunny, hot July day.
Rustic building in Cheshire
Better late than never
This month there are lots of flora and fauna springing to life. At Thorp Perrow arboretum at Bedale, North Yorkshire the daffodils were a couple of weeks late but just now the place is positively carpeted with them.
Daffodils at Thorp Perrow
I found this colourful scene at RHS Harlow Carr near Harrogate. I don’t know what the flower is and I don’t know what the insect was, I just know it caught my eye.
Blue
Under the dome …
… under a dark Cheshire sky.
Hello all, remember me 🙂 Its been a while since I have done much of anything, I have been in hibernation all winter but I hope to get back to work on my photography again now. These two pics are from Dunham Massey in Cheshire where the sun hadn’t yet done enough to tempt out any signs of life in the plants.
Under the dome
Same place, same time we sat here under a gazebo that offered no shelter at all yet.
Under the gazebo
Cellarium re-visited . . . again and again.
Six years ago I posted a picture of some of the vaulting detail in the Cellarium at Fountains Abbey, see it here. I return there all the time and can’t resist shooting in the Cellarium. A short while ago I obtained an 8mm fisheye lens and used it on yet another return visit and liked the new perspective the lens provides.
A web of arches
Mount Grace Priory
Mount Grace Priory is just off the A19 near to Northallerton. It is a fairly small site, easy to check out all it has to offer in a couple of hours or so. We have always found it a quiet and peaceful place to be. Probably because we often visit on week days when most people are at work and the kids are all in school. This shot was from a visit in October and it wasn’t exactly sun bathing weather!
Mount Grace Priory
Misty Woodland Walk
A morning walk in the woodland after a night of heave rain and winds and the mist isn’t lifting!
Misty woodland
Sunbeams on the Vale of York
Late afternoon on the Cleveland Way on Sutton Bank near to Helmsley, North Yorkshire.
View from Sutton Bank
The train now arriving . . .
A train crossing the viaduct that spans the river Nidd and into Knaresborough station as viewed from the catle grounds.
Train crossing Viaduct at Knaresborough
Dunham Massey
A trip out to Dunham Massey in Cheshire to look around the gardens had a bit of a lift when we saw some carnival type characters wandering around. It was a trail for the kiddies to try to find them, I think. First is a shot of the house from the formal gardens.
Dunham Massey
Walking over to the Orangery and a juggler strolled across the lawn, well it brightened up the visit.
Dunham Massey Juggler
Once inside the Orangery I wanted to shoot the ferns, but I didn’t expect the splash of orange inside the Orangery!
Orange inside the Orangery
And finally patterns in the fern fronds, no orange!
Fern Patterns
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