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 30 August 2022
Monday 29 August 2022
A few places in Wallingford
Not really prepared anything this week mainly because it is a Bank Holiday today and have not done anything. I did remember I took my bike to have it checked over as my Son has been riding it to work and on Friday I was informed it was ready to collect. Once I picked it up I rode it around to him to take home and went back to pick my car up
The shop is in here it's called Rides on Air
The more impressive side is here where you can view bikes though the barred window, sad state of affairs when they have to place steel bars on the windows
Not far from where I was stood you can see this shop Wildwood, I must pop in sometime
Not far from where the carpark was I passed this place, Boughtons Mill which has been converted into flats. The grain lift is the wooden cladded room sticking out. It used to be in operation when I was a kid and a stream runs under the place and I remember going in there buying corn for my dads doves. The place was covered in flour and there was a water wheel tat worked. Not sure if it is still in there but the stream is still there but little water runs through it. The shop used to be on the far right. I always feel it is a shame it was never kept as a going concern, now adays it would be very welcome around here.
Take Care
Saturday 27 August 2022
St James Bourton
This week the church explorer visit St James Bourton on the far edge of Oxfordshire. A rather nice little Victorian church
Thursday 25 August 2022
A Lake Walk
This was the beginning of August at Fforest Fields where I go early in the morning well 8:30 so not that early but before most other people who were staying there took their dogs out. It promised to be a beautiful day
Always on the lookout fro a SkyWatch photo I looked at the bull rushes and the sky reflecting in the lake
I looked towards Aberedw Hill and the clouds overhead
A few lingered across from where I stood
We went back to our caravan to ave some tea and pack but before I took this panoramic of the clouds over Aberedw Hill
I also took this shot before we went back for tea and though it would make a good shot to finish with
Happy SkyWatch
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Monday 22 August 2022
Some More Random Photos
A few weeks ago I showed a few random photos I too with a zoom lens , this week I'll show a few more I took which are mostly birds
I liked this one of the blackbird on top of the birdhouse
Roses in the garden
Saturday 20 August 2022
St Andrew's Shrivenham
This week the Church Explorer goes to the far west of Oxfordshire to visit St Andrew's Shrivenham a beautiful old church dating back to the 12th century
Thursday 18 August 2022
Saturday Sky
This beautiful blue sky was something I noticed while in the garden a few days after the sky from Last week. I just looked up and saw a criss cross of vapour trails and clouds
Zooming out the sun caught the edge with ray
One of the culprits making another trail
From my patio by the kitchen
I went to the allotment across the road to get a photo of the artichokes in flower with the sky
Tuesday 16 August 2022
Monday 15 August 2022
Morning Walk
I took these latest photos of the new housing estate which I was recording back towards the end of July just after the really hot spell we had and as we have just been though another which has not quite as fierce I had not been up to much in that time and remembered these photos I had not show yet
Saturday 13 August 2022
St James Sevenhampton
This week the Church explorer visits St James Sevenhampton a church which is not far from Swindon and where the Author of James Bond Ian Fleming is buried
Thursday 11 August 2022
Sunday Sunset
This is a post that I have put of for a while because of the amount I had in my collection. I had intended to post it when we had the really hot day but I felt that that was such and even it wanted a mention now I have finally gotten around to showing the sunset. It was take on a Sunday night in July and I took quite a few photos so no apologies for the number I posted
This is what I looked at first of all the clouds in the sky with the sun going down, it was about 8:30 in the evening
One more shot a moment later
Nearly half an hour later I went out the front and just got a shot with a plane leaving a vapour trail
I looked there again nearly 20 min's later
It was nearly 9:30 when I took this from the patio
It was 9:30 when I too this from the bathroom
Going back out the front a couple of moments later the colour looked superb