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Made me render this little scene with Godrevy Lighthouse in the background as if taken maybe a hundred years ago. Can't do much about the cars (well actually I could but I didn't ) It made me think how many people had walked those paths in years gone by and all enjoying that wonderful unchanging view...
View from Oude Delft on the Old Church ( 1246 ), Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
One of the characteristics of the Delft city center is the ‘Oude Kerk’ (Old Church). The Old Church of Delft has a sagging tower, just like the Tower of Pisa. Nevertheless, the tower is still just as imposing as it was during the Middle Ages.
( Photography group outing today to the city of Delft, internationally famous because of its Delftware or Blue pottery )
Lake Garda, Italy
I've already posted three images about the "olde worlde" streets of Malcesine but wanted to take it to its conclusion and finish the series. Looking down Via Borre, this leads down to the small harbour with some pleasant restaurants if you prefer a quieter location to those in the main harbour.
The iconic and much photographed Castle Hill area of Lincoln during the evening blue hour on 6th Feb 2020. The cathedral is still undergoing major repair and refurbishment work - but they've managed to remove some of the scaffolding from the front so from this distance you can hide the remaining building work behind the other buildings.
The Tudor style timber framed building is the Tourist Information building - worth going in to for your Lincoln pens, tea towels, coasters and what's on guides.
Lake Garda, Italy
As I wrote in my previous write-up, the best time to see the "olde worlde" Malcesine is well before the locals surface, however, the town doesn't stay quiet for long. Even while wandering around, upper window lights broke the darkness of the narrow streets and the odd shop keeper appeared from nowhere, just like in Mr Benn, and started to open up for another busy tourist day.
I'd set my tripod and camera up to look down this particular street as daylight was fast approaching, still it needed an eight second exposure but all the while I could hear the sound of an engine, albeit a small one but getting nearer! I thought, surely not down these narrow streets... so I pressed the shutter and hoped. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 sec... damn!
A small green (not that the colour matters) van came from the left and parked right in front of my camera. As it was a left-hand drive vehicle the driver didn't see me until he got out and came around... I think he was more surprised to see me, camera and tripod at this time of the morning. I tried to ask how long he would be but he was clearly on a mission and disappeared down another alley without even a "Ciao".
If you look closely you can see the light streak, presumably of the vehicle's side lights across the image as well as the rear red lights reflecting on the cobbles and back of the left most chair. I took this as a sign and decided to call it a morning... no point in taking any more pictures - not if you're likely to get run over.
Lake Garda, Italy
Lake Garda and the little towns that are dotted around it's shoreline are truly beautiful but I must confess that I was expecting something a little more, shall we say... "olde worlde" of Malcesine. It's as good a place to stay in the Italian Lakes as anywhere, but it hides it true personality well. The picture postcard images you see are taken from the lake with its harbour fronted buildings basking in the last rays of a setting sun.
Take a stroll through the town during tourist hours and you will find a very different world - more geared to satisfying the needs of the modern tourist. Every street, doorway, window, public space is given up to cater for their every desire - bars, restaurants, pizzerias, gelaterias abound. Fashion, jewellery, sports equipment, souvenirs shops; tours, car hire, bike hire, boat hire - they're all here. Apart from the castle, nothing remains of a by-gone age and even that has succumbed to the commercial world, now catering for concerts and weddings as we witnessed while there.
However, signs of a former life can still be found if you are prepared to get up early and walk the streets, even before the locals surface. Apart from the stacked tables and chairs and wall mounted menu boards the old town can still be seen. These are just a few shots of the old town streets in Malcesine in the hour before the rest of the town wakes up, and is more of what I was expecting or hoped for. Maybe it was a naive wish in this day and age of global tourism but a sight few visitors will see.
Lake Garda, Italy
Lake Garda and the little towns that are dotted around it's shoreline are truly beautiful but I must confess that I was expecting something a little more, shall we say... "olde worlde" of Malcesine. It's as good a place to stay in the Italian Lakes as anywhere, but it hides it true personality well. The picture postcard images you see are taken from the lake with its harbour fronted buildings basking in the last rays of a setting sun.
Take a stroll through the town during tourist hours and you will find a very different world - more geared to satisfying the needs of the modern tourist. Every street, doorway, window, public space is given up to cater for their every desire - bars, restaurants, pizzerias, gelaterias abound. Fashion, jewellery, sports equipment, souvenirs shops; tours, car hire, bike hire, boat hire - they're all here. Apart from the castle, nothing remains of a by-gone age and even that has succumbed to the commercial world, now catering for concerts and weddings as we witnessed while there.
However, signs of a former life can still be found if you are prepared to get up early and walk the streets, even before the locals surface. Apart from the stacked tables and chairs and wall mounted menu boards the old town can still be seen. These are just a few shots of the old town streets in Malcesine in the hour before the rest of the town wakes up, and is more of what I was expecting or hoped for. Maybe it was a naive wish in this day and age of global tourism but a sight few visitors will see.
Steam locomotive 43106, the Flying Pig, on Victoria Bridge with a Severn Valley Railway Footplate Experience train on the morning of Friday 26th August 2016. The river had risen quite a bit after overnight rain. The train was heading northwards from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth at about 10.10 a.m.
Lake Garda, Italy
Lake Garda and the little towns that are dotted around it's shoreline are truly beautiful but I must confess that I was expecting something a little more, shall we say... "olde worlde" of Malcesine. It's as good a place to stay in the Italian Lakes as anywhere, but it hides it true personality well. The picture postcard images you see are taken from the lake with its harbour fronted buildings basking in the last rays of a setting sun.
Take a stroll through the town during tourist hours and you will find a very different world - more geared to satisfying the needs of the modern tourist. Every street, doorway, window, public space is given up to cater for their every desire - bars, restaurants, pizzerias, gelaterias abound. Fashion, jewellery, sports equipment, souvenirs shops; tours, car hire, bike hire, boat hire - they're all here. Apart from the castle, nothing remains of a by-gone age and even that has succumbed to the commercial world, now catering for concerts and weddings as we witnessed while there.
However, signs of a former life can still be found if you are prepared to get up early and walk the streets, even before the locals surface. Apart from the stacked tables and chairs and wall mounted menu boards the old town can still be seen. These are just a few shots of the old town streets in Malcesine in the hour before the rest of the town wakes up, and is more of what I was expecting or hoped for. Maybe it was a naive wish in this day and age of global tourism but a sight few visitors will see.
Great Western Railway tank engine 1450 on the Severn Valley Railway. I was lucky here as 1450 is one of the only locomotives on the SVR small enough to be captured in the gap between the trees. The loco is hauling a three-carriage "toplight" train from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth on the final day of the Severn Valley Railway 2016 spring steam gala - Sunday March 20th. The train is in the woods approaching Sterns. The picture was taken from a public footpath at Dudmaston Hall. No. 1450 appeared in the famous comedy movie The Titfield Thunderbolt.
My first image taken in 2021.
I wanted to create the look of the mixture of "tungsten" artificial light and the glow from the dusk early evening sky. I was early evening but it did not look like this. As it says in my profile for me photography is not to recreate reality but to communicate and idea or feeling or convey a beauty in some way. My perspective is that I as the artist am totally free to manipulate the image a small amount or totally. For me there are no rules in photographic art. There is no such thing as 'over-processed' just 'ugly or beautiful', it 'worked or it didn't' it 'communicated or it didn't'.
We took a little walk around Rochester today, our nearest big town though technically a city since it has a cathedral.
Rochester provided the setting for a number of Charles Dickens' stories and to help the tourism industry much of the town seems to be pretending it's still stuck in the 19th Century.
The poet, William Wordsworth temporarily lodged here while attending the local grammar school, in Hawkshead, Cumbria.
Too hot to open this little chocolate shop in Lewes, but not too hot to take a photo.
HDR 3 shots +2-2 AEB
Harbury village in rural south Warwickshire. Down a track behind all the gardens is a piece of history.
Note lettering on coat of arms: C.R. signifying "Charles Rex" ... who reigned as King of England, Scotland and Ireland ... from 1625 to 1649. So is this place old, or is this place old?!
Seen at the Shopping Experience, nr Stanbury. Why is the little boy so cold when the girls have no warm clothing?? I wish we had a larger garden , but then, I wouldn`t know which one to choose !!!
LMS Jubilee 45690 Leander with the Pennine Blackpool Express at Carlisle Bridge in Lancaster on Saturday 13th April 2019. In the foreground is a Morgan Plus 4 classic sports car. The photo was taken from St George's Quay as the train heads south at speed towards Castle Station.
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Kirkgate in the Castle Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England.
Enjoyed a weekend wander around the City of Durham. The South Bailey is probably one of my favourite streets in this fair city.
Love the way the 'olde worlde' charm has managed to be retained – just ignore the couple of TV aerials and tarmac covering some recent road works (I do hope they're going to sort out the latter).
Seriously though, no incongruous signage, wheelie-bins or double-yellow lines; that's a major achievement in my eyes.
Wyken Hall is a beautiful timber framed manor house in Suffolk, Im a sucker for a medieval building and an ancient oak tree.
To me, Durham's South Bailey is reminiscent of that that scene in the Hovis TV advert from some years back where a baker's delivery boy pushes his bike up a steep cobbled bank, the basket on his bike filled with freshly baked bread.
The location was Gold Hill in Shaftsbury, Dorset. If Hovis ever wanted to recreate that advertisement, here's a location they might want to consider!
This was taken today at Canford Magna where the suspension bridge crosses the River Stour. There was a family of 8 young swans with one of the parents just drifting down the river towards the suspension bridge. It just seemed like a scene from a Constable painting.
This is a single raw file processed in Lightroom to hopefully create a picture with an 'old painting' feel to it.
Underside of ye olde spiral stairs at Warwick Castle...another blast from the past.
We stopped off here on the way back from a very disappointing trip to the British Grand Prix back in 2009...glad I went but wouldn't do it again - it's far better on the TV (or at least it was until Sky got their mits on it).
Warwick, UK.
22 June, 2009.
Lovely little village main street, as featured in the Scottish TV programme 'Take the High Road'. Processed in a painterly effect (Apr 22)
A milk churn destined for Birmingham and possibly Cadburys at Bourneville, a box of chocs made in that very factory....perhaps!
.....Arreton Old Village, Isle of Wight.
.....Parts of the village date back to over 1000 years old and have been traffic free zones since 1893.
.....Inside the real-ale public house ' The Dairyman's Daughter '.
..........Shot with Leica Z2X ... 35mm. camera.
Scene from the Enhuizen Zuiderzee Open Air Museum
( Buitenmuseum ), North Holland. Reenacting life from the 19th and 20th century: Laundry day.
The Zuiderzeemuseum is a museum located on the Wierdijk in Enkhuizen, in The Netherlands- devoted to preserving Enkhuizen's cultural heritage as well as the maritime history of the Zuiderzee, and since 1932, the IJsselmeer. Open year-round, it consists of an "indoor" and an "outdoor" museum, though the "outdoor" museum is only open in the summer. Enkhuizen was an important shipping port for centuries until the Zuiderzee was enclosed by the afsluitdijk in 1932. According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
“Enkhuizen possesses a considerable fishing fleet and has some shipbuilding and rope-making, as well as market traffic.”
The "outdoor" museum was completed in 1983 and it recreates a village of small houses from all over the IJsselmeer region and represents the way people lived in the IJsselmeer in the 19th century and at the start of the 20th centure.
Former Great Western Railway steam locomotive 4566 pulls away from Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR). The 2-6-2T small prairie tank engine is hauling the 10.20 a.m. train from Bridgnorth to KIdderminster on Wednesday May 4th 2016. The train is approaching Oldbury Viaduct. This was my 1,000th photograph in the album: Severn Valley Railway Steam Trains. There was a cloudless sky in the morning with a temperature of about 11 deg C. ..pretty much perfect conditions for this much-photographed spot.