St Mary & St John Cowley Road Oxford

 

 

This week the church explorer visits  St Mary & St John on the Cowley Road Oxford, which is repetitively new compared to other churches I have visited but one well worth stopping off to see

End of August

 

 This week my SkyWatch goes back to the end of August and the sunrise I noticed, it was not anything special like others but the skys during the day were much better. I also showed a post worthy of SkyWatch so of you would like to see them the click on the link More Wide Photos

 

The sunrise I was rather muted but sill added colour to the sky

It was more a yellowish tinge

 

The opposite was was a little more pink

 

12 hours later the blue sky had some beautiful clouds

 

A plane adding a straight line of vapour 

 

The feathery clouds 

 

Zoomed out another cloud and plane appeared.

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More wide photos

 

I took these the last time I was in Wales playing around with the wide angle lens

 

Bulrushes seemed like a good subject to get close to

 

The furry seed heads looked like lollies

 

The jetty and lake seemed like a good idea

 

As did the seat over looking it

 

More seed heads on some weeds

 

The rock in the lake

 

And the swing chair 

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St Mary Magdalane South Marston

 

This week the church explorer visits  St Mary Magdalane South Marston. This was the last of the churches I visited on my tour around near Swindon. The church also boasts a small central spire

Another misty morning

 

After our hike up the hill which I showed in last Friday's SkyWatch we thought we would go up earlier  the next day which we did manage if only by 15min, this tiem I took my Canon EOS R6 with 15-30mm lens as we were going wide I took nearly 50 photos but I'll only show a few, I also took more with my iphone but I'll show them another time.

This was just coming out of the mist on the way up the hill

 

About the top of the quarry looking back down 

The opposite way

Back along the path

From the hill down the gully

Top path

Panoramic 

Sun just rises 

Had to get this of a plane leaving a Vapour trail

Bowl of view mist

View point

Sunrise

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Pizza 1889

 

 

Going Wide

 

Back in August I changed my RF 16mm fro a new RF 15-30mm zoom lens as I prefer to use the flexibility of  a zoom lens rather than a Prime lens. I took it out for a test run around the village and the local church.

The village green we call the Forty at 15mm

 Same place but zooming in to 30mm

 

The Angel blowing a trumpet which sadly is long gone but I do remember seeing it

 

From over the wall in the new churchyard

 

A couple of crosses in the old churchyard

 

Towards the church across the graves

 

From beside one of the crosses

 

Last one from in front of this cross

I can't complain the results were about what I expected and should be fine the next time I take it into a church to get photos. The reason I went to the churchyard is because I can get close to a cross or headstone and still get a good wide background. In FridaysSkyWatch I will show the ones I took in Wales

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St Andrew Wanborough

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Andrew Wanborough an unusual church with bell tower and central spire. Unfortunately for me it was locked

 

Foggy Walk

 

Normally I tend to be a few weeks behind with my SkyWatch photos but this week we are jumping to this week. If you saw my post from Tuesday you might have got a taster for what I am about to show you.

This is what we had to contend with at the start

But as we climbed up the hill we could see clearer sky above

When we reached the quarry it was much clearer

At the place I tend to stop for a photo things looked foggy below

We climbed higher so I took a pano of what was below

 

A bit further along I took a shot of the hillside

Further along about the high point I took this panoramic

At the view point it was like looking over a sea of ice

It looked like you could walk across 

The sun was just peeking over the hill

 

A last look of the fog

The sun was now climbing above the hill and time to get back for breakfast

Next week I'll show how it looked the next day

 

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