Driving home from work the other morning the valley below was starting to fill with mist. Bleary eyed from work and in need of a sleep I couldn’t resist the temptation to stop and watch the mist build up around the trees, filling small gullies before flowing out over the fields. Thankfully I had a camera with me, so managed a few images before deciding I really should get home and sleep. I’ll only post one image here, the rest I’m using for ‘Shire’ reference pieces 🙂
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Even Cerberus, hellhound of the underworld would sit nicely when there was a dog biscuit on offer…
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The theme of the month for May on John Howe’s website is ‘Underworlds’ and I jokingly said… Which started me thinking, there should really be a London Underground style map for Moria. So I started plotting and planning, the trouble was there were so few places mentioned in Moria to map out, so I decided to add a few places. It turns out the map I came up with was Moria as seen a few hundred years after the events in The Lord of the Rings. I realize not everyone…
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Sometimes you take a photograph for one thing and then you look at it on the screen and see something else there. This is a good example 😉 I was looking at the Bulrushes in the marshy ground by the wood and decided to take a couple of photographs as the wispy effect of the fibers looked quite good with the way the Sun hit them and the dark background. It was only when I looked at the photograph on the screen that I noticed the gnomes face, now when…
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Well, that’s enough time spent looking at myself for self portraits this month, the ‘Selfie’ theme of the month over on John Howe’s forum has resulted in me staring at my ugly mug for far too long. Now I need to look at some green fields dotted with Hobbit holes and maybe a wizard or two 😉
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