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£500 Penalty for dumping rubbish, at the time I didn't notice the writing on the window.
Illicit rubbish dumping is out of control across the UK, perhaps our new Prime Minister could get the ball rolling on that one without making his rich friends even richer :-).
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When leaves fall, they undergo decomposition by fungi, bacteria, and invertebrates. Softer tissues are broken down first, while tougher structures such as the leaf veins (xylem and phloem) remain, creating delicate leaf skeletons.
This process is ecologically vital, as it returns nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon to the soil cycle, supporting soil fertility and the functioning of forest ecosystems.
I am lucky that I have the cyclist in red just passing by the art installation in the morning.
For great masters like Cartier-Bresson, they don't need any luck in making shots because they create the world.
For me, I ma grateful from time to time when I have the right light, right place and right persons!
Please let me know if you like this more dynamic composition or the more "clean" structure in the last one. Thank you!
Have a great Tuesday!
This is the art installation "Rain in the Blossoms" at Spanish Banks Vancouver.
Seen here in remarkable isolation on the remote Dengie Peninsula on the Essex coast, St Peter-on-the-Wall is widely regarded as one of the oldest surviving churches in England and one of the most important surviving buildings connected with the earliest spread of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The chapel was founded around AD 654 by Saint Cedd, a monk from the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, who had been sent south to convert the pagan East Saxons to Christianity under the patronage of King Sigeberht of Essex.
The location chosen for this early Christian mission was deeply symbolic. The chapel was constructed directly within the remains of Othona, a substantial Roman coastal fort built during the late 3rd century AD, probably around AD 280–300, as part of the Roman Empire’s defensive network known as the Saxon Shore forts. These forts were established to defend the vulnerable eastern and southern coastline of Roman Britain against increasing raids by Germanic seabororne invaders, particularly Saxons and Franks crossing the North Sea. The fort at Othona guarded the approaches to the estuaries of the Blackwater and Colne rivers and would once have housed a Roman garrison protecting this strategically important stretch of coastline.
When Saint Cedd arrived some 350 years later, Roman authority had long since vanished but the surviving stone walls of the abandoned fort provided an ideal place to establish one of the earliest Christian communities in southern England. Builders reused Roman bricks, tiles and stone from the ruined fort itself, creating the chapel’s strikingly simple appearance and giving rise to its modern name: St Peter-on-the-Wall. It stands as a fascinating physical link between the final years of Roman Britain and the emergence of Christian Anglo-Saxon England.
After serving as a place of worship for centuries, the building gradually lost its ecclesiastical role. By the 17th century, during a period when many older religious buildings fell into disuse, the chapel had been converted into an agricultural barn. Large doorways were cut through its ancient walls to allow the storage of farm equipment and crops, fundamentally altering the original structure. Fortunately, its immense historical importance was recognised in the early 20th century and in 1920 the building underwent careful restoration before being reconsecrated for religious use once again.
Visible near the coastline is the Othona Community, founded in 1946 by Anglican minister Norman Motley. Established in the aftermath of the Second World War, the community was created as a centre for Christian retreat, reconciliation, hospitality and reflection, welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds. The community remains active today and helps maintain the chapel as a place of worship, pilgrimage and quiet contemplation.
The surrounding landscape is equally significant. The Dengie Peninsula is a low-lying and geologically young coastal landscape formed largely from marine clay, estuarine silts and alluvial deposits laid down over thousands of years by tidal action in the North Sea. The extensive surrounding salt marshes, mudflats and reclaimed grazing marshes are internationally important habitats supporting migratory birds and specialised salt-tolerant plant communities. This exposed coastline, shaped continuously by erosion, tides and storm surges, would have looked broadly familiar both to Roman soldiers stationed at Othona nearly 1,700 years ago and to Saint Cedd when Christianity first arrived here almost 1,400 years ago.
Few places in England capture such an extraordinary continuity of history in one small landscape — from Roman military occupation, through the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, centuries of agricultural use, and into the modern era where this isolated chapel still stands as a living monument to nearly two millennia of human history on the Essex coast.
Almost a year in planning and eventually i got the chance to go and photograph from the "Shard " in London.
Conditions were very difficult with the haze and reflections of the structure.Trying to get a wide angle shot is next to impossible due to the reflections but this im happy with.
Such a fantastic place with incredible views all over London.
Thankyou to my photographer friend Alpha Whiskey flic.kr/ps/yxgZ6 who joined me for this trip, we had a giggle and managed a few shots too ... always a pleasure my friend.
This is a handheld image ( i could not believe it ! , check out the exif )
Exif;
Nikon D750 + Nikon 24-120VR
1/10th
F4
@50mm
iso 10000 ( yes ten thousand ! )
I have others that are of a longer exposure while resting the camera on my bag ( tripods not allowed )... but this has become my favourite so far.
The Musée d'Orsay is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum contains the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
The building was originally the Gare d'Orsay, a railway station constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The building was repurposed by architects Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon, and Jean-Paul Philippon and the museum debuted in December 1986.
Macro of the central spine of a peace lily leaf. The image is formed from a stack of around 60 frames to build a detailed impression of the structure and texture of the leaf close where it is changing from green to brown.
Sonoran Desert, Arizona
Camera: Rolleiflex 6008 Professional
Lens: Rollei Sonnar HFT PQ 150mm F/4
Film: Kodak T-MAX 400 developed in Rodinal 1+50
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Root structure of an old tree at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
From my Wild and Weathered Wood collection.
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