Started venturing out again now, just a couple of days at a time for now. Been out playing with my 8mm fisheye. This is Newby Hall near Ripon in North Yorkshire.
Super-wide view of Newby Hall and lilly pond.
This is a view of wild flowers, again with the 8mm fisheye.
Bugs eye view of wild flower meadow at Newby Hall.
Hello,
I just want to let you know that this year so far has been almost a write off in terms of my photography (I generally get going in March). As a result I have doing very little with my blog. The problem is that I have been in and out of hospital for planned procedures. Those are now behind me and I am recovering slowly. At the moment I musn’t pick up anything heavier than a can of soup!! So my cameras and bags are a no-go area. I am sure that within the next month or so I should be out and about in the dales and on the moors of northern England.
Watch this space for shaky out of focus pics coming soon hehehehe 🙂
Frank
. . . Valley of the Seven Bridges at Studley Royal, North Yorkshire.
Decay and Destruction
Gnarled Tree
Two of the seven bridges
On Sunday the sun was shining which was great so we went out for a picnic and found ourselves at Byland Abbey near Helmsley in the southwest corner of the North York Moors National Park. It was really nice to sit out under the full sun but not too great for photography, it was very contrasty but I came away with some images. Here are three of them. Click on an image then click on the resulting image for larger version.
Bylan Abbey main entrance in full sun.
Byland Abbey main entrance in the shade.
Byland Abbey
On Thursday we went up to North Yorkshire. We opened our bolt hole in the country in March, spent four days there, on our return home I fell ill and was hospitalised. Ah the joys that life can surprise you with! Anyway I am back on my feet again, waiting for further surgery but back up and about. On Friday we had a walk at R.H.S Harlow Carr and I shot this image of the education centre there while sitting under a tree. Click on an image then click on the resulting image for larger version.
Harlow Carr
A walk through the winter garden at NT property Dunham Massey in Cheshire the other day let me know that winter is slowly beginning to lose its grip. There were a lot of Snowdrops everywhere but there were quite a lot of daffodils too. It was still a cold day though, the empty bench testifies to that, too chilly and damp to be sitting around.
Wintry but signs of life.
We were walking out to look at some of the daffodils but perhaps we should have made use of the garden bench and waited because the daffodils were out walking too 🙂
Daffodils in Wellies.
We were in the Lake District at the end of November for a few days and we were rewarded with sights of lots of snow-capped fells. We were staying in Borrowdale and took a walk down to the waterside of Derwent Water to catch the golden light hitting the fells as the sun was sinking behind Catbells behind us. It was almost 4 pm and the wonderful light looked very warm but the air was very cold. Very soon after this, the light had completely gone and we were enjoying a drink in the warmth of the hotel bar.
A very still afternoon in Borrowdale.
. . . . at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. I have been trawling through my catalog’s [sic] looking for images for a book and when this one slid across the screen I was transported to the warmth of Spring last year. I had gone out with the Sony a7r and was looking around Fountains Abbey for the umpteenth time trying to find a new angle on subjects I had photographed many many times. I was finding it tough to find a new angle or view and decided to take a look at the cameras functions and tried one that I hadn’t used very much, one that offers various focal planes. This is one of the pictures I have from that day. I really enjoyed using the function for an hour or two, it felt like playtime rather than serious image hunting and It removed the self-imposed pressure of trying to find something new.
Underneath the arches . . . .
I happened upon this scene a week or two back, one day nothing, the next day about thirty square feet of lawn covered by them. They looked like a happy little group of Funghi, all come out to play.
Out to play
The end of the season is here for our Japanese Acer and here a Sycamore leaf has fallen into its midst. Scraping ice off the car windows is back on the to-do list now too.
Ebbing away
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