Castles standing proud
keeping seashore safe
only for the day
Month: June 2017
Focus on decay
David says ‘show us your focussed or unfocussed moments’, In fact he says show your favourites. This isn’t a favourite, but it’s a recent photo that I took with several of my decay and abstract loving friends in mind.
The texture seemed to lend itself to playing, I hope you like the results, is there one you really like or dislike?
Will you join in the challenge this week?
Wordless Wednesday
Hope and Renewal
Last year my city hit the national news when fire destroyed the Royal Clarence, the oldest hotel in the country. Now, seven months later work is taking place to make it safe and to protect the salvageable elements. The long term plan is a sensitive rebuild.
Hope and Renewal is a sculpture created from some of the burnt timber from the fire.
This charred wood can be traced way back to the 15th century and is my entry for Paula’s Black and White Sunday.
Weekly Photo Challenge, Order
Ben Huberman calls for order in this weeks photo challenge, and he has a tempting array of pastries in his well ordered photo.
The image below is one of my all time favourites and I may have posted it here before. This vast courtyard is part of the Ataturk Mausoleum complex in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. As well as the mausoleum which is the final resting place of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey’s final resting place, there is a museum dedicated to his life.
Thursdays Special
Paula over at Lost in Translation has asked us to post photos of the same scene in landscape and portrait format. I often forget that I have a choice, and landscape is jut there isn’t it? I hope this challenge will make me thing more often about how totally different an image can be, just with a turn of the camera.
Any thoughts or preferences?
Six Word Saturday
Glad I went down not up.
Barrelling through the lanes
Freshly trimmed hedges
And a narrow muddy track
Winding through Devon
Wordless Wednesday
Vigilant, a Thursday Special
Vigilant : Alertly watchful especially to void danger, Merriam Webster.
Paula’s Thursday Special for the first week of June is ‘pick a word’, I’m choosing vigilant, from her list of five.
The river Dart, strangely enough, runs into the sea at Dartmouth. At the estuary stands the 600 year old castle, one the loveliest settings anywhere for a fortress.
The gun tower was one of the first of it’s kind in the country and has been standing vigilant for nearly as long as the castle has existed.
You can walk out to the castle, along a path with beautiful views, or you can go by ferry. I’ve done both, most recently last week, when I walked out and returned by boat. When you arrive at the jetty, there’s a board that you turn around, the ferryman sees it from way across the river and makes his way across to take you back to town. A perfect way of spending £2.50 on a sunny day.
Lucid Gypsy 