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After an excellent day's weather the forecast was for a quick change for the worse early evening so, in anticipation, I went looking for clouds. The abundant and colourful wild-flowers and varied grasses at Castle Loch, Lochmaben enriched the foreground.
This is a picture I took outside my door last December. Winter sunsets are so dramatic. Or maybe its just that I am awake when the sunsets in the winter :-0
Photos taken during a 6 day driving trip that stretched from Edinburgh to Ratagan (near Skye) on Day 1, the Isle of Skye on Day 2, from Ratagan to Ullapool on Day 3, from Ullapool to Durness on Day 4, from Durness to Inverness on Day 5 and Inverness to Edinburgh on Day 6.
You can see a route map on virtualwayfarer.com that documents my exact path as well as additional information about the trip.
Also, please check out the color counter-part to this album.
A special thank you to www.carrentals.co.uk who partially sponsored my car rental and helped make this trip possible.
Dramatic Skies - day 3 - such great clouds! Now if only the 2 WW2 Lancaster bombers we really came out to watch had flown in front of this one....
I came outside one afternoon and from my balcony I could see this bank of clouds rollong in. I grabbed my camera and made a bunch of photos with the intention to go black and white. It lasted about 5 mins before the clouds were overhead but managed to get some shots.
From the Kodak film I was given when Max Spielmann failed to develop the photos I took on my friend's birthday (I won't be going back there again. I thought the "photo expert" would be better than Asda but I guess I was wrong). Anyway, I think I prefer it to Agfa Vista.
But until I can buy this film in Poundland for a quid, I think I'll be sticking with Vista.
Dramatic clouds behind the Trinita dei Monti at the Spanish Steps in Rome.
(Note: This ends the 2011 Rome and Italy set)
I had long been keen to visit St Andrew's church at Scole, having first read about it on Simon's Norfolk Churches site some years ago, where I learned of the dramatic impact of its recent history and saw photos of a stunning modern window by Patrick Reyntiens. The church suffered serious damage in an arson attack in 1963, and the subsequent rebuilding gave us the intriguing fusion of ancient and modern that we see today (along with the aforementioned rather fetching glass!). I thus got rather excited when Phil announced at the start of our morning's excursion through south Norfolk that we could aim to finish our itinerary of churches with Scole, time permitting. I do hope my desperate repetitions as the morning wore on of 'Will we still have enough time for Scole?' wasn't too testing for him!
Externally at least this appears to be quite an ordinary Norfolk church of 14th / 15th century date, a fairly plain west tower followed by a nave with an aisle on the south side only and a rather restored looking chancel; this chancel gives the only clue outside to the changes within, with new brickwork suggesting structural intervention in more recent years.
Within the modern restoration is rather more apparent, the 1963 fire had destroyed all the roof and most of the previous furnishings and the restored interior has a much more contemporary feel; all is light and pleasingly simple with white-washed walls and plain wooden ceilings (flat over the nave, pitched over the aisle). The nave is saved from starkness by the rich splash of colour of Patrick Reyntiens's bold semi-abstract window serving as a focal point at the east end, a warm inviting glow that draws the viewer forward. The south aisle clearly suffered less serious damage in the fire given that not only has the richly carved medieval font survived unscathed but also a handsome 1920s window by Edward Woore behind it, two very fortunate survivors of the disaster.
Scole church is refreshingly different, I really liked its synthesis of old and new and the striking glass in particular. It used to have a reputation for being very difficult to visit but happily the mood has changed and the church made open and welcoming on a regular basis in time for our pre-Covid visit.
For more on this and detail of the church in general see Simon's description on his Norfolk Churches site below:-