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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)

Ironbridge Weekend (May 2002) While the central heating was being installed, we thought we'd best get out of the way. For one thing, it'd be noisy, dusty and messy during the day, which we'd just as soon avoid; and for another, if we weren't there, they wouldn't have to tidy up before leaving in the evenings, giving them more time to work on the job itself. So we went away for a few days. Here's where we went.
	Ironbridge overview (132 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. The UK is filled to overflowing with significant Industrial Revolution sites. Ironbridge is, as you might guess, the first bridge built of iron. Intricate, isn't it!
	Curves (142 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. The circles and semicircles that make up Ironbridge are very pleasing to the eye.
	Curve detail (147 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. They don't make them like this any more...
	Dovetail (106 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. Here's the best part: Because this was the first iron bridge, they obviously had no experience with how to build one, or indeed much with how to build structures with metal at all. But they had lots and lots of experience in building with wood--so Ironbridge is built as if it were made of wood! It has dovetails, mortise and tenon joints, and all kinds of fun things. Any bolts you may see, the visitors' centre tells us, are from later repairs.
	'Bringer of Fertility', Roy Kitchin, 1961 (88 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. The Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale area was heavily involved in, well, iron and coal production and innovations. It's therefore appropriate that just northeast of Coalbrookdale you will find the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture. This is one of those wonderful places that, for some reason, guidebooks don't mention and nobody goes, so you have the place pretty much to yourself. There are about 60 sculptures here. It was a camera disaster, I can tell you. Choosing a few to post was hard.
	'Time Setting Man', Roy Kitchin, 1963 (193 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002.
	Rust (130 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. Sadly, I'm really not sure which one this was. It might be 'Weight in Tension', Roy Kitchin, 1964.
	'Amphitrite', Michael Lyons, 1993 (82 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002.
	Medieval tiles (150 KB). Buildwas, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. Intact medieval tiles on the floor of the ruins of Buildwas Abbey.
	More tiles (158 KB). Buildwas, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. More of the tiles on the floor of Buildwas Abbey.
	Ducklings (126 KB). Froncysyllte, Denbighshire, Wales; 22 May 2002. A nest of snuggly ducklings beside the Llangollen Canal.