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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...
Or, you can...
UK Day Trips |
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Biddulph Grange (September 2002) |
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Lime Avenue (161 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. Calm and quiet. |
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Dahlia Walk (156 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. Part of a long avenue of dahlia beds, sectioned off by the hedges you see. |
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Frog (141 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. Biddulph is organised into sub-sections, many devoted to particular countries. This frog is in the China section. |
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Dragon (85 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. These dragons are on the roof of a pagoda-like structure, also in the China section. |
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Tiger lily (89 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. |
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Inverted lily (89 KB). Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England; 28 Sep 2002. Just for fun... |
Little Moreton Hall (August 2002)Little Moreton Hall is a building of wondrous wibbliness. Any straight lines you may find are pure chance. |
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Joined bay windows (100 KB). Little Moreton Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire, England; 26 Aug 2002. These bay windows were added on to the original house. At ground level, they are two separate bays, but on the first floor they join together, so on the ground floor there is a strange tunnel formed between the bays. |
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Rycharde Dale, Carpeder (132 KB). Little Moreton Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire, England; 26 Aug 2002. The craftsmen who worked on Little Moreton Hall have signed it all over the place. |
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Stream (167 KB). Little Moreton Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire, England; 26 Aug 2002. Little Moreton Hall is surrounded by what amounts to a very civilised moat--a gentle and picturesque stream. |
Speke Hall (June 2002) |
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Speke Hall (120 KB). Speke Hall, Speke, Merseyside, England; 22 Jun 2002. Southwest corner, I think. |
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Wibbly windowpanes (68 KB). Speke Hall, Speke, Merseyside, England; 22 Jun 2002. Well, they're parallel to each other... |
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Palm cones (110 KB). Speke Hall, Speke, Merseyside, England; 22 Jun 2002. What, haven't you ever heard of the coniferous palm trees of England? |
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Holly hedge (136 KB). Speke Hall, Speke, Merseyside, England; 22 Jun 2002. |
Rufford Old Hall (June 2001) |
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Topiary (187 KB). Rufford Old Hall, Rufford, Lancashire, England; 24 Jun 2001. Can you work out what this bush is carved to resemble? |
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Spiral topiary (207 KB). Rufford Old Hall, Rufford, Lancashire, England; 24 Jun 2001. They had quite a lot of excellent topiary; the spiral shape was just one of many. |
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Strange blue berries (98 KB). Rufford Old Hall, Rufford, Lancashire, England; 24 Jun 2001. Perhaps this is some kind of holly; I don't know. |
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Mullion reflections (143 KB). Rufford Old Hall, Rufford, Lancashire, England; 24 Jun 2001. I quite like how this one came out--nicely abstract. |
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More mullions (143 KB). Rufford Old Hall, Rufford, Lancashire, England; 24 Jun 2001. With different reflected colours this time. |
Dad's Visit (August 2002)This summer my dad and his wife Verna came to visit and sample the delights of Britain. Although the weather was decidedly mediocre (mostly overcast, but without actually raining much), we nevertheless managed to have a plethora of Kodak Moments. Imagine, if you will, three lunatics with digital cameras (and one normal person), set loose in the British countryside. In the end we pressed a CD for my dad with all his photos plus all of ours, to take back with him. Wild horses couldn't drag out of me how many photos there were on that CD. |
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Boat (90 KB). Porthmadog, Wales; 7 Aug 2002. The day we rode the Blaenau-Ffestiniog Railway was deeply overcast. As our train crossed the causeway, I saw this brightly-coloured boat all by itself in the bay. It was the only hint of colour to be seen. The resulting photo was so very nearly grey, aside from that boat, that I desaturated it the rest of the way; I think it's a fun effect. |
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Pin Mill reflection (123 KB). Bodnant Garden, Bodnant, Wales; 7 Aug 2002. The disgustingly photogenic Pin Mill at Bodnant. |
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Water lilies (73 KB). Bodnant Garden, Bodnant, Wales; 7 Aug 2002. Lilies in the reflecting pool in front of the Pin Mill. |
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Lily (81 KB). Bodnant Garden, Bodnant, Wales; 7 Aug 2002. One water lily I particularly liked. |
Yorkshire |
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Presbytery (117 KB). Rievaulx Abbey, Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, England; 10 Aug 2002. The remains of the presbytery at Rievaulx Abbey. The day we were there was again heavily overcast, so my photos of the abbey are far too dull to convey how dramatic it is. |
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View of the Abbey (136 KB). Rievaulx Abbey, Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, England; 10 Aug 2002. An enterprising landowner who owned a ridge overlooking Rievaulx Abbey cut a series of strategically placed view-points through the trees toward the abbey. The result is Rievaulx Terrace, a fine place for photographers. |
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Hydrangea (90 KB). Great Northern Flower Show, Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, England; 11 Aug 2002. Verna is very much into flowers and gardening, so we'd hoped to sneak in a flower show while she was here. We got the Great Northern Flower Show at Castle Howard. It was small but fun. |
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Atlas Fountain (97 KB). Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, England; 11 Aug 2002. An imposing view of the central section of Castle Howard. |
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Wheat (145 KB). Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, England; 11 Aug 2002. A field of some kind of grain at Castle Howard. |
YorkWe spend three days in York but of course it wasn't nearly enough. Not surprisingly, I re-took a lot of the same photos I'd taken on our first visit, to get them better this time. Someday I will get a good photo of the Shambles--but not this trip. |
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Stained glass (109 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. A detail from one of the impressive stained glass windows in York Minster. |
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Ancient stained glass (114 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. This pane doesn't look so impressive--until you realise it's from c. 1250! |
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Chapter House ceiling (191 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. A zoom of the decoration of the Chapter House ceiling. |
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Column capitals (118 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. While we were at York Minster, the sun suddenly came out, all the clouds went away, and it went spectacularly blue. So, of course, we went a bit mad. |
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Gargoyle (79 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. One of zillions. |
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Gingerbread (124 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. It's just not a proper roof without a whole slew of spiky bits. |
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Sparkles (180 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. The massive nave window with sun sparkling off it. Happy photographer! |
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Nave towers (129 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. |
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Looking up (134 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. Standing in the nave doorway arch, looking pretty much straight up. |
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Sunlight on the roof (84 KB). York Minster, York, England; 12 Aug 2002. You can go up to the top of the York Minster central tower. First you go up a long, elderly spiral stair which comes out at the level of the roof. This is taken there. |
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View from the top (148 KB). York, England; 12 Aug 2002. After you cross along the edge of the south transept to the central tower, you haul yourself up a really long spiral stair to the top of the tower. This is looking east from the top. I like the juxtaposition of the ancient castle (Clifford's Tower) and the power plant on the horizon. |
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Chimney pots (68 KB). York, England; 12 Aug 2002. |
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High Petergate (111 KB). York, England; 12 Aug 2002. One of the charming streets of the old part of York. |
Industrial Revolution StuffMy dad is into steam engines and similar things, which meant we just had to drag ourselves out to a few significant Industrial Revolution sites and technological museums. |
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Through the window (100 KB). Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, England; 8 Aug 2002. |
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Machinery (142 KB). Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, England; 8 Aug 2002. Mostly part of a beam engine, but also a photographically pleasing collection of mechanical stuff. |
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Gears (121 KB). Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, England; 8 Aug 2002. |
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Arc of engines (111 KB). National Railway Museum, York, England; 13 Aug 2002. At the National Railway Museum, they have a giant circle of engines arranged on a turntable. Here's a small fraction of the circle. |
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Pipes (96 KB). National Railway Museum, York, England; 13 Aug 2002. Cutaway pipes inside a steam engine. |
Lake DistrictMy dad had to leave on a Thursday, but we were still on holiday for the rest of the week, so we went to visit Helen in the Lake District. |
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| Castlerigg Stone Circle (237 KB). Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick, Cumbria, England; 16 Aug 2002. See note about viewing panoramas. I finally got to see Castlerigg, which was closed last year for the foot-and-mouth outbreak. I must make a terrible confession about this one. We were there at Magic Hour, the lighting was great, but we were expected at Helen's and needed to leave soon, so we couldn't really linger. Because it was late in the day, there weren't many people around, but there was a constant slow trickle of people, such that the circle was never free of people. In the end I gave up and took it with people in it. It helped that it was a panorama--I could wait till a frame was as clear as possible, take the picture, move to the next frame and wait again. But I still had six whole or partial people in the photo when it was done. I've removed 'em. Shocking, I know. (And yes, I know about the shadow; I've left it because I like it. It seems surreal to have a shadow with nobody casting it.) |
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| View from the circle (114 KB). Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick, Cumbria, England; 16 Aug 2002. See note about viewing panoramas. Castlerigg sits in a meadow that is almost a plateau within the mountains of the lake district. The land drops steeply away into valleys, with more imposing peaks on the other side. I can see why the builders chose this site. |
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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. |
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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! |
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Curves (142 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. The circles and semicircles that make up Ironbridge are very pleasing to the eye. |
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Curve detail (147 KB). Ironbridge, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. They don't make them like this any more... |
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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. |
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'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. |
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'Time Setting Man', Roy Kitchin, 1963 (193 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. |
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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. |
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'Amphitrite', Michael Lyons, 1993 (82 KB). Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. |
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Medieval tiles (150 KB). Buildwas, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. Intact medieval tiles on the floor of the ruins of Buildwas Abbey. |
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More tiles (158 KB). Buildwas, Shropshire, England; 21 May 2002. More of the tiles on the floor of Buildwas Abbey. |
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Ducklings (126 KB). Froncysyllte, Denbighshire, Wales; 22 May 2002. A nest of snuggly ducklings beside the Llangollen Canal. |
Peak District (March 2002) |
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Winnats Pass (58 KB). Castleton, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. Near Peveril Castle, we came to a very sudden steep downward grade called Winnats Pass. The sides are wildly contoured and shockingly green. This is also cave country; Winnats Pass was probably originally caves that simply fell in. (Note to self: Don't jump up and down energetically on the bits of landscape that still remain!) |
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View into Castleton (65 KB). Castleton, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. At the bottom of Winnats Pass is the town of Castleton. I've caught its outlying fields, looking very hazy indeed. As you work your way up the photo, you begin to realise just how little of the photo is actually sky! |
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Stone walls in Castleton (56 KB). Castleton, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. Typical Derbyshire scene--countryside crosshatched with stone walls. |
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| Peveril panorama (241 KB). Castleton, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. See note about viewing panoramas. A panorama of Castleton and the stunning countryside, shot from what remains of the ramparts of Peveril Castle, which looms over Castleton. |
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Magic Hour (98 KB). Near Eyam, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. You've probably noticed that near sunrise and sunset, the character of sunlight changes completely. I call this Magic Hour. Things become much more red and golden and look far more dramatic. We were in a sheep-field looking for a stone circle as sunset approached. We never did find the stone circle. Oh well! |
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A country lane (73 KB). Near Eyam, Derbyshire, England; 28 Mar 2002. More of the picturesque British countryside...It's like this everywhere. |
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| Chatsworth panorama (499 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. See note about viewing panoramas. England is full of great estates and otherwise vast piles of stone, usually with mind-boggling gardens attached. One of the more staggering examples is Chatsworth, which we went to in spite of ourselves. This is a panorama from the gardens, overlooking the back of the house. The Emperor Fountain is at the left end of the photo; then all of Chatsworth; then on the right you see the rose garden (inside the hedge) and the old greenhouse. |
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Greenhouse (91 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. There's an old greenhouse, but there's also the new greenhouse, which is a modern-looking thing. I like the juxtaposition of these struts with the corner of Chatsworth peeking through behind it. |
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Gargoyle (185 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. A fun gargoyle, one of a pair at the top of the Cascade at Chatsworth. |
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Glimpses (202 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. A glimpse of Chatsworth through an arch. |
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Twisty twigs (138 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. There were several very short trees where every branch was twisted and tangled like hair. |
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Hedge maze (129 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. Naturally Chatsworth wouldn't be complete without its very own hedge maze... This was my first ever! I was utterly charmed. |
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A fine prospect (66 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. The view toward Chatsworth from the other end of a long pool ("the Canal"), encompassing the Emperor Fountain (which is something like 280 ft high). |
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Ceiling bosses (162 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. Inside Chatsworth, in one of the dining halls. |
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Henry VIII rosary beads (138 KB). Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. On display at Chatsworth. |
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Rounded streambank (122 KB). Dovedale, Near Thorpe, Derbyshire, England; 29 Mar 2002. We spent some time in Dovedale, a valley that snakes between peaks and includes some interesting geology. Although I took lots of photos of the surrounding hills, for some reason all the photos I've ended up liking are of the stream. Here I quite like the remarkably civilised way the grass comes up flat to the edge of the stream, then photogenically rounds off into the water. |
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Rounded water (152 KB). Dovedale, Near Thorpe, Derbyshire, England; 29 Mar 2002. Even the water in the stream makes nice rounded shapes where it babbles over a small drop. |
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Shadow (83 KB). Dovedale, Near Thorpe, Derbyshire, England; 29 Mar 2002. The setting sun blocked by a peak, its rays visibly slanting over the valley, which is otherwise drowned in shadow. |
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Trees (186 KB). Dovedale, Near Thorpe, Derbyshire, England; 29 Mar 2002. The stream passing through a tunnel of trees. |
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Furrowed lawn and old trees (178 KB). Ilam, Staffordshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. On the grounds of nearby Ilam Hall. |
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Bronze window (137 KB). Ilam, Staffordshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. Window in a crypt attached to the church beside Ilam Hall. I like the way the setting sun makes it glow as if it were made of bronze. |
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Contoured countryside (78 KB). Near Pilsbury, Derbyshire, England; 30 Mar 2002. More gorgeously undulating countryside, this time seen from about 200 feet above. Did I mention that it's like this everywhere? |
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Ancient yew tree (305 KB). Churchtown, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England; 1 Apr 2002. In the town of Darley Dale there is a tree that has managed to outlast everything around it, many times. It is apparently 33 ft in circumference, or about 10 ft in diameter. It's certainly an impressive sight. It's not as tall as you might expect (although it's not short by any means); it seems to have put most of its effort into girth instead. To give a better impression of what it's like to stand below it, I've taken a 4-shot panorama from directly below, which fits in a lot more than a single frame could. To view it, I recommend starting at the base and scrolling slowly upward. (The fence at the base looks funny because of stitching issues in the panorama.) Estimates of its age vary; the guide says 1200 years old, the plaque claims 2000. It has certainly outlasted several churches on this site, including the original Saxon one. Makes you feel pretty young. |
Rhine Valley, Germany (February 2002)The castle density on the Rhine Valley is astonishing. I thought this country had a lot of castles. Once we got home, we had to put a name to all these castles we took pictures of. A web search quickly turned up maps, descriptions, etc. Among the material I found was the claim that the stretch of the Rhine we visited has more castles than anywhere else in the world. Wow. We were at the castle capital of the planet and I didn't even know it at the time. Still, it does go some way toward explaining how, by the end of the second day, we could have our reactions blunted to the point where seeing yet another castle didn't get much more reaction than "Oh. Another castle. Huh." |
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Östrich (108 KB). Östrich, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. A charming jumble of half-timbered houses. Doesn't look like a real place, does it? |
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Dormers (83 KB). Östrich, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. I like the way it looks like snake-skin. The rounded shape doesn't hurt either. |
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Eyelid window (183 KB). Östrich, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. One roof had these wonderful eyelid-shaped windows. I like the red tiles as well. |
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Rüdesheim in the morning (78 KB). Rüdesheim, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. |
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Rüdesheim steeple (194 KB). Rüdesheim, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. |
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Burg Ehrenfels (139 KB). Near Aßmanshausen, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. Just up the river from Rüdesheim, we rounded a promontory and were struck dumb by the ruins of Burg Ehrenfels. As ruins go, it's wonderfully picturesque. |
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Mausturm (Mouse Tower) (116 KB). Near Aßmanshausen, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. Ehrenfels' picturesque setting is not hurt by having this toy-like castle on an island in the middle of the Rhine directly across from it. Just up the river on the opposite bank is yet a third castle. |
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Weathervane (66 KB). Aßmanshausen, Germany; 2 Feb 2002. In Aßmanshausen, we quite liked this weathervane. |
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St Goar (214 KB). St Goar, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. The town of St Goar sports a ruined castle (Burg Rheinfels) looming over it, now with a hotel built into and alongside it. The town centre is built on the bank of the Rhine on the flat, but the valley sides are steep, so most of the houses are perched precariously above. |
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Marksburg (132 KB). Near Rhens, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. We drive around a bend, and... |
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Marksburg zoomed (93 KB). Near Rhens, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. Who could ask for a more perfect fairy-tale castle? Yet its Disney-esque appearance belies its age; it is apparently about a thousand years old and is the only castle along this stretch of the Rhine never to have been damaged in an attack. Undamaged it certainly looks! |
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Schönburg (63 KB). Oberwesel, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. As the sun was setting, we walked the city wall in Oberwesel and took some pictures of its resident castle glowing in the evening light. |
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Crooked buildings in Bacharach (136 KB). Bacharach, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. Sadly, it was only when sunset had well and truly happened that we stopped in the town of Bacharach, which turned out to be picturesque beyond belief. Here's a shot, much cleaned up but still suffering from the lack of light. The town centre was all wibbly buildings and narrow lanes and generally lacking in straight lines. Imagine how it would look drenched in morning sunlight. Must go back sometime and get this one right. |
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| St Goar panorama (530 KB). St Goar, Germany; 3 Feb 2002. See note about viewing panoramas. Come stand with me on the parapet of Burg Rheinfels in St Goar, looking out over the Rhine at sunset. Across the river you can see the town of St Goarshausen; it strings out along the river valley like a snake. You can see vineyards on the hills, waiting for spring to come. Turn to the left and you can see a castle on the other side of the river off in the distance; it's Burg Maus. Turn to the right and you can see another one; it's Burg Katz. (Tee hee, Katz and Maus. Oh, never mind.) Before you on the river you can see the shadow of Burg Rheinfels, the castle you're standing on. It's amazing to me that I can stand on one castle and have two others within sight. This valley must be even more blood-soaked than Scotland. |
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Scotland Trip (July/August 2001) |
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Buttermere (94 KB). Buttermere, Cumbria, England; 30 Jul 2001. This is Buttermere, a small lake (and town) in the middle of a cluster of mountains in the Lake District. |
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| Buttermere panorama (188 KB). Buttermere, Cumbria, England; 30 Jul 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. Wow. |
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| The Royal Mile (431 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. The heart of Edinburgh is the Royal Mile, running from Edinburgh Castle to Holyroodhouse Palace. Edinburgh Castle is perched at the top of a volcanic core. When the glaciers came through, they couldn't budge the tough volcanic rock, so they had to go around and over it, so it looms over the rest of the city quite impressively. The land right behind the core slopes gently down until it meets the surrounding ground level again, right where Holyroodhouse Palace is. The street connecting these two is called the Royal Mile. In this panorama, you can see Edinburgh Castle at the far left and Holyroodhouse Palace at the far right. The construction cranes are building the new Scottish Parliament. The water in the background is the Firth of Forth. This panoramic has some stitching and focussing issues, so I'm not especially happy with it as a photograph. |
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Holyroodhouse Palace (159 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. Holyroodhouse Palace is one of the two anchors of the Royal Mile. Most peculiarly, it seems to be built up against a ruined abbey--even sharing a wall with it! Yet when you think about it, they probably were built at the same time. Certainly there was lots of history taking place at the palace in the 1500s. Probably the abbey was just allowed to go to ruin, and the castle wasn't. |
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Iron window (61 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 3 Aug 2001. At Holyroodhouse Palace. I like the shapes and the colour. |
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Dynamic Earth (101 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. I like the way the hyper-modern Dynamic Earth pavilion is built on top of the much older layer... |
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Forth Rail Bridge (115 KB). South Queensferry, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. The bridge turned out to be quite picturesque, especially as we were approaching Magic Hour (which is near-interminable in Scotland when the days are long; it lasts a solid hour anyway). |
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Bridge and walls (137 KB). South Queensferry, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. I like the juxtaposition of the different ages, colours, and building materials. |
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Boat silhouettes (119 KB). Blackness, Scotland; 31 Jul 2001. Near sunset at a hamlet with the wonderful name of Darkness. |
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Arabic carving (174 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 1 Aug 2001. At the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. |
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Jewellery statues (77 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 1 Aug 2001. At the National Museum, adjacent and connected to the Royal Museum. The National Museum has some really good ideas. For one thing, they treat the museum itself as a work of art, and the objects on display also as art, rather than just curiosities in boxes. They even work to make the backdrops and stands artistic, rather than just functional plinths. These guys are displaying (if I recall correctly) Saxon jewellery. The display cases are sited where the item would be worn, so a bracelet is located at a statue's wrist. |
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Bishop (87 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 1 Aug 2001. The National Museum had several pieces from the Lewis chess set. |
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King and queen (74 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 1 Aug 2001. From the Lewis chess set. |
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Chapel glass (125 KB). Edinburgh, Scotland; 2 Aug 2001. At Edinburgh Castle. I'm a sucker for stained glass. I can never resist the combination of primary colours, dark frame, and (sometimes) back-lighting. |
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Avalon (40 KB). Near North Berwick, Scotland; 2 Aug 2001. On the road to Tantallon Castle, east of Edinburgh. As we neared the castle, we found a perfectly-shaped hill in the middle of a flat plain, with its base obscured by mist. It was just like typical descriptions of Avalon in the various cheesy versions of the Arthurian legends. On the other side of the road was the sea, completely mist-enshrouded, with a single giant rock sticking up from it, with a lighthouse on it. Behind us was the ruined castle. Meanwhile the sun peeked out from the clouds, and the fields nearby were full of tiny red poppies. What more could anyone want? |
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| Blair Castle panorama (91 KB). Blair Atholl, Scotland; 3 Aug 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. Mostly for the benefit of American readers, this is a photo of a castle that people still live in. This one is relatively new, and self-consciously much more Disney-esque than most, but you can at least get an idea of what an enormous pile a castle generally is! |
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Squall approaching Culloden Battlefield (49 KB). Near Newlands, Scotland; 4 Aug 2001. Culloden is the site of one of the many blood-soaked events that pepper Scottish history. Here on a cold and sleeting day in 1745 a Scottish army, in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie, lost utterly to an English force, who apparently proceeded to butcher the Scottish wounded. The field (which is behind me, not actually in this photo) is surprisingly large, and partly overgrown with bushes and heather today (although they employ sheep to help keep the growth in check), and, of course, innocent and peaceful-looking. It's impossible to imagine what it must have been like. Nasty. |
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Clava Cairns (166 KB). Near Newlands, Scotland; 4 Aug 2001. There are three cairns on the site, each within its own ring of standing stones, thought to be something like 4,000 to 5,000 years old, which makes them contemporaries of the Pyramids. Wow. This is a snippet of the stone circle around the third cairn; you can also see one of the other cairns off in the distance. Typically, the single-track lane that brought us here actually runs through one edge of this stone circle; one of the stones is on the other side of the road, and one stone is actually part of the stone wall on this side of the road. |
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Thistles at Cawdor Castle (134 KB). Cawdor, Scotland; 4 Aug 2001. Yes, the one in Macbeth, at least in name. These probably aren't really thistles either, but they look quite a lot like them. I like the glowingly-translucent purple shade. |
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Trotternish Ridge (57 KB). Near Dunan, Skye, Scotland; 5 Aug 2001. This is the most impressive bit of geology I've ever seen: an enormous ridge, gently sloped on the west, rising to a knife-edge and dropping off suddenly on the east. This is the spine of the Trotternish, an entire section of Skye. We are still quite a long way away from it; it's miles long and very tall. This is not a terribly good photo, even after Mike tweaked it, because of the distance; but by its nature, you have to be far away to take a photo of the whole ridge; so you can't win. |
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Trotternish Teeth (117 KB). Flodigarry, Skye, Scotland; 5 Aug 2001. This is a view of the eastern face of the Trotternish ridge. Impressive chunks of the backbone have fallen off and been left standing as jagged tooth-like ridges. The teeth near the background of this picture are, oh, a few hundred feet tall. |
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A headland near Kilmuir (88 KB). Kilmuir, Skye, Scotland; 5 Aug 2001. This is fairly typical of the Skye coastline. Mind that first step; it's usually a few hundred feet. |
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A house with a view (109 KB). Kilmuir, Skye, Scotland; 5 Aug 2001. Most houses on Skye have an astonishing view either out the front or the back. Or both. This house's location rather reminded me of Uncle George's. The neighbour ratio is similarly satisfactory. |
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Approaching Squall (47 KB). Uig, Skye, Scotland; 5 Aug 2001. A quick-moving storm heading into Uig, on Skye. |
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Uig Harbour (60 KB). Uig, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. The ocean is so smooth you can see perfect reflections. Apparently this is not the normal state of affairs in Uig. |
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Sunset on Skye (33 KB). Kilmuir, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. The islands off in the distance are Lewis and Harris. |
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Eagle at Flodigarry House Hotel (72 KB). Flodigarry, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. Sun and shadow, shape and texture. I just like him. |
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Waterline (75 KB). Near Glashvin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. Where do the ocean and sky meet? Look again... |
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| Waterline panorama (143 KB). Near Glashvin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. It's easier to tell where the waterline is in this panorama, but it's still deceptive. |
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Kilt Rocks (124 KB). Near Staffin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. This area of cliff consists of basalt columns, so from a distance they look pleated, hence the name. |
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Green rocks (125 KB). Near Staffin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. These are at the base of Kilt Rocks. They're huge, I'm zoomed way in. I like the green tinge. |
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Cyan rowboat and blue sky reflected in a pond (83 KB). Near Staffin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. I like the colours. |
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Sky, water and wheat (128 KB). Near Staffin, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. More of the colours in that small pond. |
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Erosion near Lethe Falls (127 KB). Lealt, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. Lethe Waterfall plunges into a gorge which shortly reaches the ocean. The cliffs on either side of the gorge are quite high, steep, and impressively lethal. This picture was taken at the mouth of the gorge, where it has widened and flattened quite a lot. (For an idea of scale, the white dots are sheep.) See the strange irregular terracing covering the hillside? We suppose that's probably erosion, but it often looks like agricultural terracing. It's everywhere on Skye--everywhere that isn't flat or perpendicular, that is. What really boggled me was the picnic area along the edge of the gorge. Picnic tables sit within ten feet of a fenceless plummet. Families casually lunched right next to the edge, their children running around without much (apparent) supervision. In thinking about it, most houses on Skye are perched within a few hundred feet (at most) of a cliff, and they can't very well put fences around the perimeter of the entire island. I think the residents must take the hazard for granted. The cliffs were so impressive, and the drop so imminent, that I actually had dreams that night that I was falling off them. |
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Glass ocean (50 KB). Lealt, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. We constantly boggled at how perfectly flat calm the ocean was while we were on Skye. I like the textures made by the tiny waves. |
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| Islands panorama (221 KB). Lealt, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. Looking across to the Scottish mainland. I quite like these small rocky islets. Again, note the absurdly calm ocean. (For viewing panoramas, I recommend opening them full-size in whatever your viewer is, then scrolling slowly to the other end. This creates the sense of standing there and turning your head.) |
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Dunvegan Head (68 KB). Trumpan, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. Taken from miles away. These are serious cliffs. I like the swoop. |
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Distant Cuillin (104 KB). Near Roskhill, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. The Cuillin is a dramatic and mysterious-sounding part of the island of Skye. There is only one single-track road into that region; hiking is the usual way in. It's a tiny region, yet has something like 20 peaks over 3,000 ft. And my my, was it photogenic. So we thought we'd drive toward them and see what we could see. The chase itself was fun, trying to extrapolate from the map what our best route for further approach should be, even as we watched the lighting on the peaks change and watched them get closer. In this photo, they are still quite far away; you can see the compact nature of the region--jaggy, jaggy, jaggy, whoops done. We agreed that they seemed Tolkienesque--the kinds of mountains that Tolkien characters are always having to traverse, that never seem quite plausible when reading about them. Yet there they were. |
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| Black Cuillin panorama (203 KB). Near Drynoch, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. This is what the Cuillin looked like when we reached our closest approach. Check out the large peak toward the right edge--Skye would seem to have a graffiti problem with delinquent giants. Or maybe giant delinquents. |
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Red Cuillin (92 KB). Somewhere on the A863, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. There are apparently two Cuillins--the Red Cuillin, ordinary granite mountains, and the "true" or Black Cuillin, made of something called gabbro. In any case, the contrast is striking, with them sitting right beside each other. The Red Cuillin look like they've had chocolate sauce poured on top. |
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Another sunset (56 KB). Near Uig, Skye, Scotland; 6 Aug 2001. Again looking toward Lewis and Harris from the west coast of the Trotternish. This is during the last few minutes of sunset. |
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Dun Carloway (108 KB). Carloway, Lewis, Scotland; 7 Aug 2001. Brochs are cylindrical dwellings, made of drystone, standing about 40' tall. The outside is a double wall, with voids and stairs between. They were built mostly between 100BC and 100AD. This one, Dun Carloway, is one of the best preserved ones still in existence. In this picture, I am outside, looking at the front door. The front wall only survives to the height of the door lintel, but the back wall rises to about 20' high. You can see the wall rising as it sweeps around to the back, and also see the double-wall construction (mostly by seeing the black void between the two walls). At least I hope you can; the lighting conditions weren't the greatest. |
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Mind your navel (102 KB). Carloway, Lewis, Scotland; 7 Aug 2001. The door into the broch is only about 3.5 ft high; you really have to crouch to get in. Inside the broch, there is just an open space, with three more tiny doors leading into the void between the outer and inner walls. These doors are really small. I had to do a sort of chicken-walk to get through one of them. This is Mike standing in the void between the walls, behind the tallest of the three interior doors. |
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Calanais overview (97 KB). Calanais, Lewis, Scotland; 8 Aug 2001. Calanais Stone Circle is an enormous cross, with a circle at the center. This is an overview of most of the site (although one leg of the cross continues quite some distance further), to give you an idea of its size. It probably was built around 3000BC, which makes it yet another contemporary of the Pyramids. |
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Central circle at Calanais (94 KB). Calanais, Lewis, Scotland; 8 Aug 2001. This is the central, and probably original, circle at Calanais; the rest of the cross shape was probably added later. The central stones are quite a bit bigger than the others. |
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Sunbeam in smoke (45 KB). Arnol Blackhouse Museum, Lewis, Scotland; 8 Aug 2001. This is in a blackhouse, a long thin drystone house with a thick thatched roof--and no chimney. They burned peat in a central fire in the middle of the floor. When we went in, it was obvious why they were called blackhouses; everything was encrusted with soot. The smoke curled visibly in the air. We stopped to boggle at the "No Smoking" sign just outside... |
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Rainbow at Seilebost Sands (74 KB). Seilebost Sands, Harris, Scotland; 8 Aug 2001. Harris has rolling mountains strewn with boulders. But it also has the majority of the Sands, amazing Caribbean-style beaches complete with turquoise water. The beach isn't just a narrow strip along the ocean frontage; it extends deep inland. Imagine a V-shaped ocean inlet, but floor it with sand instead of ocean. When the tide is out, you have three or four miles of sand; when it comes in, you have about six inches of ocean on top of it. Our first trip out to see the Sands was accompanied by intermittent rain squalls, but they had an unexpected bonus--rainbows. You can almost see the secondary outer ring of this one, about halfway across the photo to the left of the main ring. |
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Rainbow (23 KB). Seilebost Sands, Harris, Scotland; 8 Aug 2001. For once in its life, my camera cooperated and focussed on sky, which it normally refuses to do. |
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Luskentyre Sands (101 KB). Luskentyre Sands, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. Luskentyre is another of the amazing Sands. The tide is in; we're standing at the back of the V, looking out across the six-inch-deep ocean toward the actual beach part of the Sands. You can see it way off in the distance; it's about three miles from where we are, just before the dark blue bit that is the actual ocean. I love the colour layering. |
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Waves (135 KB). Luskentyre Sands, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. Colour and texture--these are a few of my favourite things... |
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Colours (98 KB). Luskentyre Sands, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. Layers of colour at Luskentyre Sands. |
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| Sands panorama (418 KB). Luskentyre Sands, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. See note about viewing panoramas. You can see the water-covered sands at the right edge, behind the spit of sand; that's all uncovered beach when the tide is out. Notice the obscenely turquoise water. Also notice the mountains in the background--do they look like Mount Desert Island minus trees or what? Sometimes it was so desolate, rock-covered, and plantless that we wondered whether we'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up on the moon. |
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Tomb cover (126 KB). Rodel, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. A tomb cover for a MacLeod, circa 1550, at St Clement's Church in Rodel on Harris. I like the crusader look of him. Also notice how his left hand is gripping a dirk. |
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Saltings (128 KB). Leverburgh, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. The sea salt permeates these strange chunks of ground. The sheep know this and come nibble on it. Just one more surreal thing about Harris. |
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Grass tufts (155 KB). Horgabost, Harris, Scotland; 9 Aug 2001. At the edge of the beach near the Clan McLeod Standing Stone. |
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. |
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Haworth (147 KB). Haworth, West Yorkshire, England; 5 May 2001. The old part of Haworth is perched at the top of a steep hill. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Base of an arch (141 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Guess that last column was optional... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Dam (132 KB). Fountains Abbey, Aldfield, North Yorkshire, England; 6 May 2001. Where the water gardens join a small lake. |
York (May 2001) |
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Shambles (112 KB). York, England; 26 May 2001. York still has many streets with medieval origins in its city centre. They're a little tangle of streets with great names, with a strange mixture of buildings from all ages--1300s beside 1600s beside ugly concrete 1900s. The Shambles is a particularly well-preserved street; it still has houses from the time when property taxes were based on the building's ground footprint. People built upper storeys that jut out over lower storeys, thus getting more space without additional tax liability. There's one pair of opposing houses where people with long arms could probably have passed objects from one window to the other. However, the houses have since sagged and drooped in all directions, so the upper-storey windows don't line up quite like they used to. |
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Flowers and brick (187 KB). York, England; 26 May 2001. |
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Chocolate mice (134 KB). York, England; 26 May 2001. You just have to love a country that has tea shops where you can get, in addition to any of a zillion other sinful delights, chocolate mice. (Or chocolate cauliflower, for that matter.) |
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Gargoyle (137 KB). York, England; 26 May 2001. This guy, along with some friends, was just sticking out of a wall beside an entrance, seemingly randomly. |
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Monks (167 KB). York Minster, York, England; 26 May 2001. York Minster is huge (one of the largest cathedrals in Europe) and it's absolutely covered with gargoyles and gingerbread and guys like these, standing in little niches on the wall. They're cool enough at first glance, but when you look closer they really get interesting. Look at their toes, for example. I love their toes sticking out over the edge. And one of them looks like he's walking out of his niche. And then have a look at the far left side of the photo--beside the left-most monk, there are a cluster of fantastic gargoyles. I especially like the one with his hands over his mouth. Also, looking at these monks it seems clear to me that they've been restored. (Bits of York Minster are always being restored. It's very old. Parts of it date back to the Normans.) Their edges are far too crisp for them to be original. Plus look at the monk clutching books to his chest--he looks like he's wearing a cucumber anti-aging masque. I think the lighter-coloured areas all new material. |
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Stained glass detail (186 KB). York Minster, York, England; 27 May 2001. This is one tiny panel (maybe a foot wide) from the tennis-court-sized stained glass window in the eastern end (choir) of York Minster. The entire window consists of tiny panels like this, rendering it very busy-looking overall. Its enormity and detail are all the more impressive considering that the window dates from 1405-8. Just wow. |
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Crossing (119 KB). York Minster, York, England; 27 May 2001. Cathedrals are generally built, not surprisingly, in a cross shape. The place where the two lines cross is called, again not surprisingly, the crossing. This is the ceiling of York Minster's crossing. It's very, very far above me. Each of those bosses is about 3 feet wide. |
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Ruins of Kirkham Priory (165 KB). Kirkham, England; 27 May 2001. We weren't even trying to find this; it was just there, beside the road, on our way from York to try to find Wharram Percy. Stuff like this is everywhere. |
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Kilburn White Horse (84 KB). Kilburn, England; 28 May 2001. This horse figure was created by clearing an area of the hillside and covering the space with chalk pebbles. There are apparently many such figures still remaining in Britain. This one isn't especially old, but it's still impressive. |
UK Trip (May/June 2000) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Entrance (83 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. Intact 700-year-old architecture mingling with modern life makes for some rather narrow passages... |
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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. |
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Sand zoomed (70 KB). Conwy, Wales; 29 May 2000. More detail of the sandbar. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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My nephew Eric |
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Mommy and Eric (43 KB). Tom and Linda's house; May 1999. |
New England |
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Marshall Point Lighthouse (117 KB). Port Clyde, Maine; Dec 1999. It's not often that I manage to be somewhere at sunset, when sunset is usefully visible, and it isn't cloudy! |
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Picnic table (110 KB). Port Clyde, Maine; Dec 1999. A picnic table at Marshall Point at Magic Hour. |
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Tulip tree (99 KB). Melrose, Massachusetts; May 1999. Yes I know they're not really called tulip trees, but I don't know what their real name is. I think they are some kind of magnolia. But the flowers look just like enormous pink tulips growing from a tree instead of the ground. |
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Dramatic weather (95 KB). Near Cutler, Maine; Nov 1996. |
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Bridge (172 KB). Near Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine; Sep 1995. There are miles of these carriage paths on the island. |
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Asticou Azalea Gardens (162 KB). Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine; Sep 1995. |
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Asticou Terraces (130 KB). Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine; Sep 1995. |
Florida |
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France in Epcot (61 KB). France, Epcot, Disneyworld, Florida; Jan 1997. |
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Morocco in Epcot (45 KB). Morocco, Epcot, Disneyworld, Florida; Jan 1997. I must confess that this idea was stolen from David--he took essentially this same photo on an earlier trip. |
* Note about viewing panoramas: I recommend opening panoramas full-size in whatever your viewer is, then scrolling slowly to the other end. This creates the sense of standing there and turning your head.
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