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Photos - Mine

I like photography as something of a pseudo-hobby. I don't especially know much about it, but sometimes I get lucky anyway. Here are some.

Originally I only included photos here if I especially liked them. However, these days I often include photos in the diary. Different selection criteria apply. For the diary, I might include a photo that isn't especially impressive, if I especially want to include a photo of the subject to accompany the diary text. But that means I have all these photos already available on the site. I've therefore started including them here, because I might as well; it doesn't take any more work or space on the site.

Perhaps later, I will include a separate category for photos I have especially liked...

• UK Day Trips
• Dad's Visit (August 2002)
• Ironbridge Weekend (May 2002)
• Peak District (March 2002)
• Rhine Valley, Germany (February 2002)
• Scotland Trip (July/August 2001)
• Yorkshire (May 2001)
• York (May 2001)
• UK Trip (May/June 2000)
• Various other photos

Or, you can...

• See them all (HUGE download)

UK Trip (May/June 2000)
	Stone wall (59 KB). Bridekirk, Cumbria, England; 23 May 2000. This was taken during a walk from Helen's house into Bridekirk, a hamlet of about four houses. It is so idyllic there, I wonder how they ever get anything done.
	Pastures (49 KB). Bridekirk, Cumbria, England; 23 May 2000. Again, from the walk into Bridekirk. In England, the grass and leaves (and everything growing, actually) are a vivid shade of green that we just don't get in the US.
	Conwy town wall (68 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. Conwy Castle also had a wall that encircled the town. It's still almost completely intact.
	Entrance (83 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. Intact 700-year-old architecture mingling with modern life makes for some rather narrow passages...
	Sailboats and sand (91 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. Looking down from the tallest tower at Conwy Castle onto the river. That sandbar was irresistable.
	Sand zoomed (70 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. More detail of the sandbar.
	Window (57 KB). Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales; 30 May 2000. Most of the windows at the castles we saw were just empty holes. This window has somehow kept some of its inner structure intact over the centuries.
	Scenery (56 KB). Tre'r Ceiri, Near Llanaelhaearn, Wales; 30 May 2000. Looking out from the top of Tre'r Ceiri, a 4,000-year-old hill fort in northern Wales. The stone piled in the foreground is what remains of the drystone outer wall of the settlement, originally 4m high.
	Looking down (75 KB). Tre'r Ceiri, Near Llanaelhaearn, Wales; 30 May 2000. I've leaned over the wall, pointed the camera down, and zoomed in as far as I can (and it's a 180mm zoom). Also, you can see where some of that 4m wall went; it has fallen down and covered the upper shoulder of the hill.
	Chimney (64 KB). Harlech Castle, Harlech, Wales; 31 May 2000. The chimneys from the fireplaces in the living quarters all came together into this one four-cylinder chimney.
	Brook (59 KB). Lower Slaughter, Cotswolds, England; 1 Jun 2000. This brook wends through the center of the village. It's never more than about six inches deep; it's quite charming.
	High Street in Burford (71 KB). Burford, Cotswolds, England; 1 Jun 2000. Burford is on a steep hill, and the buildings are all old and tilting into each other.
	Leeks (61 KB). Shipton-under-Wychwood, Cotswolds, England; 1 Jun 2000. These were growing beside the inn where we stayed in the Cotswolds. (OK, so maybe they're not leeks. They look like leeks, though.)