We spent a lovely Christmas in Leeds this year with our daughter’s family and we got out in the lovely pre-Christmas sun to walk around Kirkstall Abbey. It’s an amazingly photogenic location and these four shots taken with my iPhone try to give an impression of just how imposing the building is and how beautiful […]
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A selection of classic views of Bruges, ones that we will always remember our trip by. Jen walking by a canal – we did a fair bit of walking. [EXIF: 1/200sec @ f/8; ISO 100; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 16-35 F4 ZA OSS @ 35mm] The passageway that leads into De Burg square. [EXIF: 1/125sec
Classic views of Bruges Read More »
Apart from the canals you have a choice – bikes or carriages. The locals use the former and they appear to have priority over everything, cars and pedestrians! The ones above I would guess have just been fished out of the canal and are waiting to be reclaimed. [EXIF: 1/250sec @ f/4; ISO 100; Sony
Getting around Bruges Read More »
Jenny and I had a lovely couple of days in Bruges having travelled there on the Eurostar to Brussels. The weather was spectacular – the sky was really this blue! Hardly any Lightroom “enhancements” to these images. These shots were taken very close to where we stayed in the Pand Hotel and it’s
Bruges – by day and by night Read More »
I couldn’t let the sunsets of this week wait until the sequence of scheduled shots that are due to appear on this blog over the next few weeks have finished, so please excuse this exceptional blog post of images with exceptional colours. The first image was taken on Tuesday evening after Jenny phoned me and
Spectacular sunsets Read More »
The Natural History Museum is an impressive building in any light, but emerging from visiting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition, which had opened there the day before, you just couldn’t help but be amazed at the contrast between the sunlit building and the dark clouds behind.
An exceptional building in exceptional light Read More »
Returning from a visit to Hereford, we stopped in Monmouth. I hadn’t realised that Jenny had never seen the town. Quite apart from the historic gatehouse over the river, the town is now famous for its self-styled Monmouthpedia virtual existence, with QR-codes all round the town. Of much greater interest than that are its two
Charles Stewart Rolls Read More »
Is it just me, or is there not something rather ‘nice’ about this image – sort of cultures clashing but with a sense of belonging too. Anyway, I like it. Taken near St Kilda, Melbourne several years ago.
What a wonderful view to wake up to every morning. Well this is the view we had for a whole week whilst staying with the family in Deniliquin, NSW.
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Coming to the end of a great family holiday in North Island, NZ. What could be better than a trip in the cable car to get this panoramic view of Wellington.
Wellington Cablecar Read More »