photos from the past 40 years
Actually I count at least four crosses. But they’re not really the point of this post.
The tall sundial in the foreground is what remains of a medieval cross. It was turned into a sundial in the late 17th century.
An act of vandalism that wouldn’t be considered these days. Destroying something medieval to make a sundial is the sort of thing that makes me Cross.
This is my contribution to One Word Sunday: Cross.
This is a contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue photo challenge.
A Borage flower photographed in Cheshire, England with a 300mm telephoto lens to isolate the flower from cluttered surroundings.
A contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue challenge.
This is a Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) also known as the Eurasian Kingfisher and River Kingfisher. The colour has been described as blue-green upperparts with pale azure-blue back and rump. I have noticed that the blue colours changes depending on quality and direction of the light falling on the bird.
Interestingly enough, the feathers aren’t blue, they contain no pigments. The colour is produced by the fine surfaces of the feathers interfering with the wavelengths of light. That is presumably why the colours can change depending on the light.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Street Photography.
Having copied around two thousand slides over the past couple of years I went through my film archives for some street photography. I picked these shots taken at a period fair on the town square in Nantwich, Cheshire, England in the 1980s.
A South Cheshire Pipe Band drummer at the fair.
Emptying the post box on the town square during the fair.
A couple of the stalls at the fair.
Proving that the underwear matches the period costume at the fair.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Outdoors.
As someone who is primarily an outdoor photographer I had plenty of photos to pick from but I needed a theme to follow. So I decided to go with as wide a variety of subject matter as possible and to start in the 1970s and end this summer.
One of my earliest photos. The negative for the first version got lost or damaged so I reshot the scene next time there was snow. Trees in snow, Hatherton, Cheshire, England in the mid 1970s.
Entering the start/finish straight at around midnight at the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race. Le Mans, France in April 1982.
Light beam on a hillside at Loch Arkaig, Scotland in the autumn of 1985.
A Red Fox in a hay field taken in Faddiley, Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
A Borage flower bud photographed in Nantwich, Cheshire, England in the mid 1990s.
An American White Pelican at Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1990s.
Waves and rocks at sunrise on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada in the early 2000s.
Canada Day fireworks from the dock at Colpoy’s Bay. The fireworks are in the town of Wiarton a couple of miles away across the bay. Taken on Canada Day last year.
Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise this summer.
My contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Nostalgia.
Proving that the underwear matches the costume at a period fair (fayre probably) on the town square, Nantwich, Cheshire, England.
An old tractor competing in the Cheshire Ploughing Match in the 1980s.
A final polish for the brass at the steam rally. I don’t know what health and safety would say about climbing up on the machine when there’s a fire in the firebox.
My contribution to the COSMIC CURVATURE: ARCHITECTURAL MARVELS Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I decided to go with a selection of photos of St Mary’s Church, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, a 14th century church with a variety of interesting curves.
A monochrome study of the eastern end of the church.
The stained glass window at the western end of the church.
The western end of St Mary’s Church showing the stained glass window from the outside.
