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Photographs of a number of old structures made by man including Stonehenge, the oldest in this set, and the Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon canal which are the most recent. Also included are images of Corfe Castle and the Cerne Abbas figure. All are located in the counties of Dorset or Wiltshire. [...] 
Some pictures of the late evening sunlight of fields in south Devon and on growing barley [...] 
Images taken walking the Exeter Ship canal around Turf and the Exe estuary towards Powderham in May 2011. The canal is one of the oldest in the UK. [...] 
Photos of obscured sunlight early and late from South Devon and taken in May 2011 [...] 
There is some dust from the Sahara which has affected sunsets here recently so I wandered out to catch the effects. As is so often the case other things caught my eye while I was out. The Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) was out and looked great in the late light. It really [...] Frost and fog on the edge of Dartmoor I set off towards the moors looking for a day similar to the one in the last two posts – clear and cold. On the southern edge of the moors it looked as though the weather was not at all good and I [...]
In a sense this is “part 2″ of my previous post here. The images were all taken on the same day and, while showing quite a wild part of the UK, also indicate some of the ways the moors have been used over centuries. The work of man can be seen [...] It has been far too long since I got out with the camera. A number of factors have affected the past few weeks but mainly it has been that the weather has really been very poor for photography with a lot of wet grey days. These images may not be all [...]
I thought that the really cold weather was maybe over around Totnes by now (22 December 2010) but checking the thermometer this morning it had hit -6 deg C overnight. The minor road I live on has had little traffic so had some aspects of a skating rink but I’d arranged [...]
Looking out there was quite a noticeable hoarfrost however the sun was coming out so I decided to take a walk to see what was around. I was not the only one looking around as can be seen above. The (grey) squirrel seemed to want to play “hide and seek” with [...] |
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