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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)

Yorkshire (May 2001) You wouldn't know it, but only a few hours of our Yorkshire weekend were spent at Fountains Abbey. It's just so incredibly photogenic that it dominates the resulting photos.
	Haworth (147 KB). Haworth, West Yorkshire, England; 5 May 2001. The old part of Haworth is perched at the top of a steep hill.
	Tea shop (127 KB). Malham, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. On the outskirts of Malham we found a well-hidden tea shop in a gorgeous setting.
	Malham (92 KB). Malham, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Malham is famous for its impressive geology, but we were there during foot-and-mouth and couldn't venture off the roads. But we could still see the dales and valleys and stone walls.
	Nave window (188 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Fountains Abbey is easily the most picturesque ruin I've seen yet.
	Nave (98 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. The same window as above, but from inside this time. There were two patches of preserved medieval tile in the nave. You can see one in the grass; the other is just behind me.
	North aisle (130 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Looking down the colonnade that lies at the side of the nave.
	Guest house (116 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. The abbey itself is big and sprawling, and besides the central cathedral includes lots of ruined outbuildings like this one, a guest house.
	Base of an arch (141 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Guess that last column was optional...
	Pools (128 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Fountains Abbey includes a very formal water garden. You can see that there is a perfectly circular central pond, with two crescent-shaped ponds on either side of it like parentheses.
	Statue (105 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. This is a hyper-zoomed shot of the statue at the center of the perfectly circular pond. You can just see it in the shot above.
	Folly (156 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. This is on the shore opposite the statue, so you can sit there and look out at the ponds and statues.
	Dam (132 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Where the water gardens join a small lake.