The more I revisit these early morning shots the more I realise how lazy I am. I have to get up! Wollaton Park in Nottingham is home to Wollaton Hall, which has been used as Wayne Manor in the Batman movies, two herds of deer, and a lake with a heronry. To be fair, as a back garden it is not too shabby. The early morning colours with a hint of mist on the lake – that will do for me.
A still autumn morning in Snowdonia, North Wales, with just a hint of the morning mist remaining. This is from the first proper workshop I attended, run by Doug Chinnery, in the mountains and lakes of Snowdonia. Now I need to persuade myself to get up early to grab more opportunities like this. Maybe not in summer with the sunrise at 5am though.
End of next week we are off to the seaside hunting for dolphins. Not hunting in the sense of Japanese factory ships, but in the sense of looking for. So I thought I would get in the mood with an image from a sunny day on a quiet beach. I like to think the cyclist was using this route as their regular commute to and from work. If you have been reading my blog, you will know this has been edited in the style of the Adamsky effect.
I can almost hear the non-UK readers thinking I have gone out of my mind, and uploaded the wrong image. Looks nothing like liver. Well, it is Liverpool again, and this is the Liver building as seen from the Albert Dock. Atop the Liver building is a statue of the Liver Bird, which you will also find on the badge of Liverpool FC. As you can tell from the buildings framing the Liver building the Albert Dock area has had a lot of investment and is a really nice part of Liverpool. Oh, and it is pronounced Lie-ver, as in to lie down. And no puns about ORGANic growth at the Albert Dock, that would just be silly.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! I think this one came off its hinges a while ago. Is there a woodworking equivalent of “a good vet would get it on its feet again”?
Sometimes the ordinary isn’t that ordinary at all.
Fingers crossed this looks ok on WordPress. I was looking through the photos I took when at Bempton Cliffs with the gannets and afterwards at Flamborough, when I saw three that made no sense. Then I realised they were taken in order to create a panorama, and I had never processed it. Idiot. Put together you can see the limestone cliffs, and in the distance a lighthouse. If looking on a phone it is pobably best to click to get a bigger version and then turn the phone on its side. But hey, you know best.
I hope you are impressed that I can be bilingual? Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire coast is home to thousands of gannets. I would say you can’t move for them, but as they spend most of their time on the seaward side of a very tall steep cliff that is highly unlikely. Suffice to say, you can’t miss them. This is the classic pose of a mating pair making it known they are interested. Ornithology lesson over.
I have a version of this sorry-looking retired fishing boat in my gallery, but in black and white. Having reviewed it again (the weather is shocking so I have to do something…) I think that was a mistake. The colour actually adds something to the flaking paintwork I think. The image is from North Landing at Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast.
Melbourne is well known for its street art, and there is a network of alleys covered in murals. As you can tell from the little guy in the yellow box, tourists and visitors are envouraged to photograph the art. You couldn’t resist this chilled group of farmyard friends, though the violin did confuse me…
Some people are not a fan, and just tagging on walls is stupid, but I really like some good wall art, or street art – however you term it. I found this cat outside a resaurant in Menorca, just minding his business. Maybe it was a marketing ploy to get potential customers to stop outside the restaurant?