The autumnal colours are really looking nice at the moment, fiery red leaves blazing against the deep shadows of the distant woods. So today I wandered around with the camera and looked at the colours, how the light caught a particular leaf whilst all the others were in shadow, it was the perfect time to be out with a camera. It was only logical for me to end up taking something which I intended to be in black and white 😉 I did take some colour shots, I’ll sort…
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Away with the fairies
I’ve been away with the fairies for the last couple of weeks, well, I’ve been reading about some of the myths surrounding fairies, fay, fae, fair folk…. I started with Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories, which felt like a natural starting point, I then went on to read Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major for obvious reasons 🙂 and delved into Celtic Twilight by Yeats. They all pointed me in different directions but all had a common them in many respects, if time allows this week I’d say another reading of Faerie…
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Sometimes you have to get soggy knees for a photograph 😉 wandering Hugo this morning I noticed how the morning dew was covering the grass around the pond and thought it worth a photo…. It’s one of those photographs which look better bigger, so here’s a larger version – link.
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Whilst out for an early morning wander with Hugo I noticed Venus, Mars and Jupiter rising above the Pennines with the almost full Moon illuminating the foreground, so I wandered back to the house for the camera and tripod and went back out 😉 There’s a larger version with labels here > link.
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