Braemore Church

Angels and Doom

Inside St Thomas's Church.

 

The Angel is immediately above the Doom Painting

Farleigh Castle and Westwood Manor and Great Chalfield Manor

Farleigh Hungerford Castle gatehouse.

We visited 3 ancient properties on Tuesday 3rd August.  Weather was occasionally sunny which was frustrating.
Here are some of the pictures taken that day.

Topiary at Westwood Manor in the shape of a house.

Westwood Manor Collage

Crypt under Farleigh Hungerford Church in the castle.  It shows the leaden faces on the graves.  This is very rare.

Great Chalfield Manor panorama

From the apple store Great Chalfield.
You must click on a photo to see it full size especially  the panorama

Salisbury Cathedral

Taken in Jan 2009 whilst the Angel was still flying. This image has a reflection in the new font. Water is pouring from spouts at each 'corner'. The verticals have been corrected and then the photo turned into a sketch.

These photographs were processed in Photoshop to be light and airy to emphasise the wide open spaces of the beaches of the Isle of Harris. The exception is the church at Blythburgh, Suffolk.

Boat Race Day

I judged a photographic exhibition today and the one thing that was clear was that there are now more entries that are purely digital than film derived. It also meant that there were more entries overall. This in turn meant that it took me longer than normal to write notes for each entry. On these notes I try to get the entrants to understand how to take better photos and better presentation. The quality of entries does seem to have improved over the years.
It was raining when I left the judging and so I just dashed into the churchyard and took 2 snaps. The first was of these new graves bright and cheery with spring flowers but also rather sad.
The second one was the rather curious pigeon permanently perched on a headstone. What is it trying to eat.

Today we went to the Bell Inn in Wylye. Below is the church in infra red.
Whilst there we went into the church. This is a detail of the Pulpit. Beautifully carved. This a kaleidoscopic version of it.

West Wales in late October 2007

Bryn Brith 383m
by
Lynnau Creggenen



A ruined chapel found on the slopes of Cader Idris.
Taken in Infra Red on a Sony DSC F828 camera