This blog is to showcase some of the photo's I've taken, the pictures can be from my archive of many years or taken recently. They are from where I live and the various places I have been. I hope Enjoy my work and come back to visit again
Tuesday 31 May 2016
A Walk up the Downs
I did have an ulterior motive for this walk, it was a bit of research for another blog I am writing in my Exploration Blog but going to get the photos brought back some childhood memories.
I wanted to get to the hill you see in the distance which is on the Cholsey Downs
To get to it you had to walk up the path you see ahead, this area is a car park for people visiting the downs
The gate here stop you getting to the downs by car. It is only a recent thing as we could once drive right up to a place called the Fair Mile
The gully you see in the track is caused by rainwater flowing down the hill
Looking back to the carpark
This part of the walk is quite boring now but on the left are some woods
where we used to play & roam around
It used to be a lot more open but now has become very overgrown with vegetation
But in some places it you look out you get a fine view like Starveall farm you see below
In places I can see where people have been poking around in the woods as there are paths leading in
We used to go into the woods to play and climb the trees till one day the local farmer who owned it caught us coming along the track on our bikes and accused us of poaching. He wanted out names. But Iwas dammed if I was giving him mine so a few just legged it. I'm told he chased us but he never caught us though I admit my dad was not impressed when I told him. The miserable old famer could have done nothing anyway as the truth is he never caught us in the woods
The track here gets a bit rougher though it's in better condition that when it was when I was a kid
This is a view of the woods we used to play in
This is about as far as I went
Because this is the view I wanted to get looking down into the village of Cholsey. I felt it was worth the effort. As for the miserable old farmer well he died many years ago and lays in Cholsey Churchyard.
Thursday 26 May 2016
Sky on Thursday
My wife met me on Thursday lunchtime & we went up to Bury Down for a small picnic, the sky's were glorious and as I happened to have camera it was rude not go get a couple of photos
Looking over Oxfordshire past Didcot Powerstation
This way we look towards the Harwell Campus
And finally along the ridgeway towards West Hendred
If you wondered what the black object was in the field in the first photo, well it was this crow cooling itself down
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Monday 23 May 2016
Newbury Food Market
We were in Newbury on Sunday and after coming out of Marks & Spencers we found Northbrook Street was full of market stalls, on a closer look I noticed it was a food market
The large stall opposite was selling all kinds of fresh made Bread
Looking up the street towards the cenrter of town
The other way towards The Broadway
Think the shed on wheels was selling smooties of something
Shot on the fly you could get a curry here
The Gluten Free Company selling Fudge and all things Gluten Free . Me well I went to my favorite bakers for a pasty to take home for lunch.
Clematis Macros
Took a few macro photos of some of the clematis in our garden the other day
Sharing with Macro Monday2
Thursday 19 May 2016
Dark Skys on the Way
The view from the terrace at Fforest Fields on Tuesday evening, the weather changing and announcing rain is on the way
Looking left the blue sky was being pushed away by cloud
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Thursday 12 May 2016
Traffic Jam Sky
Beginning of May I was updating my project photos when I noticed the traffic had built up on the A34 causing a long tailback but the sky's looked good
This is the Northbound lane, the slip road off is at the end of the traffic to the right, no doubt people were pulling off in the hope of driving round to the next junction which I have no doubt was worse
Looking Northbound and the tailback from what I assume is the next junction at Milton where there are some serious roadworks going on
About 10 minuets later on my way back the traffic was easing
Tuesday 10 May 2016
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