Stoke-on-Trent.
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On this trip to the UK we arranged our itinerary to visit South Stoke in Oxfordshire to visit St Andrew's church which has a special connection to my ancestry. We had a lovely lunch at the Perch and Pike.
within 10 minutes of the sun setting, the sky had gone crazy. The mountains were purple, the sky was orange and pink, and my heart was in my mouth watching it all.
Stokesia laevis, commonly known as Stokes' aster, is native to wetlands, bottomlands, wet pinewoods, savannas and ditches mostly along the coastal plain. It features fluffy, cornflower-like, violet blue flowers (to 2 1/2” across), each with notched rays surrounding a pincushion center of feathery disk florets.
A large Ferris Wheel adorns Darwin's Stokes Hill Wharf. Apparently it is there for the entire dry season.
After flying back from the US for a family Christmas I arranged a downtime meet-up with Mr Woolley for a spell snapping the Santa Specials on the GCR, Loughborough.
Stanier 8F 48305 was on duty that day and, after taking a few pics and chatting to the driver, to my eternal surprise I was invited up on the footplate for the ride to Leicester and back. Thinking Christmas had come early I eagerly accepted, while making a mental note not to ask too many questions that might give away just how clueless on such matters I was.
Thankfully the crew were pretty relaxed about me taking shots and, for this one, I opted for a slow shutter speed to try capture the motion blur. Always a bit tricky to get the timing right it took half a dozen attempts before I ended up with something I thought passed the sniff test. The dark dingy December weather helped though and ensured the healthy glow from the fire played a part.
Not my first visit to a hot footplate but certainly my first ride on one and I have to confess, if quietly, it absolutely made that Christmas!
Rework of an image posted 10 years ago. Exposed at 1/25s, F7.1, 14mm lens, 200asa, Canon Rebel XT.
Somewhere near Swithland
December 2007
“A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.”
― DaShanne Stokes
> Autumn color on the marsh in North Florida.
Hasselblad 500 C/M, Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8
Kodak Ektar 100, developed by The Darkroom
Stokesia is native to the southeastern United States. The flowers appear in the summer and are purple, blue, or white in nature.
Central Park, Ormond Beach. Florida, USA
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Stok Kangri (6120mtrs) gleams under a Harvest Moon and a star spangled sky.
Its the highest peak in the Stok Range which ring the valley of Leh and a very popular trekking peak which offers non technical (but steep nonetheless) climbing for trekkers and amateur mountaineers.
It is probably the most busy peak in India and has attracted a lot of official and "unofficial" groups specially in the last few years. (the situation got so bad that now a permanent LO (liaison officer) is stationed at Base Camp during the season to deter "unofficial" climbers from tackling the peak).
The approach to the peak via Rumbak, Makarmo to base camp at 5100mtrs through the Stok La(4,900mtrs) is quite spectacular as the mountains are vividly colored and one gets to see some very unusual folding in the rock formations
This is our local beach where we walk our dog. The first building is Pebbles Cafe/Bistro where we stop for a coffee and the white building is Stokes Bay Sailing Club. I hasten to add we weren't walking the dog on this day.
Due to me sustaining some fractured ribs over the holiday period ,
I'm posting some more shots from last year .
Taken in November ,Stoke Gabriel on the banks of the River Bank.