I think this is better example of near and far then my first post. Taken on a winter day beside the Exeter Canal. 
If you click to enlarge you can see some walkers in the distance on the right.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit
How do you capture something as abstract as a free spirit? A really tough call but I’ve chosen this damselfly.
To see the other entries visit http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/weekly-photo-challenge-free-spirit/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge
Feel the force
If you have the stomach for it! I can’t think of anything worse myself 🙂
This is my entry for the weekly photo challenge over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/weekly-photo-challenge-merge/ where lots of other entries can be seen.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong
I didn’t know what to do for this weeks challenge, so I went for a walk through the cemetery and this is what came to me, but check out http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/weekly-photo-challenge-wrong/ for some more interpretations of wrong.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Growth
Bibury is a pretty village in the Cotswolds, the sort of place that is seen as a typical English village by its many visitors from abroad. Travelling through a few weeks ago there were coach loads of Japanese tourists merrily snapping away. On my return journey a few days later it was quieter and I was able to merrily snap, and have been waiting for a reason to show you. I thought I would focus on the growth happening there.
This row of cottages look like they could be swallowed up amongst the dense growth of trees and meadow.
Fruit trees have a good crop bursting with growth and gorgeous roses doing what roses do best in June.
Look how high the river is, it’s no wonder everything is lush and green this year with the amount of rain we’ve had, I’m glad it isn’t just in Devon, Bibury is in the county of Gloucestershire.
Bibury Trout Farm is an attraction open daily where you can try your hand at catching Rainbow or Brown Trout. There is something for everyone and children especially would love the chance to see the fish leap for the food they can throw in. They sell fresh and smoked trout and have a nice café where I stopped for a quick cuppa – so much nicer than a motorway services! There is quite a bit of algal growth on this section of their fifteen acres.
They have beautiful gardens to walk through as well.
This is the Bibury Court Hotel, a Grade 1 listed 16th Century mansion. I haven’t been inside but a friend tells me its divine, having checked the website I believe her, I like the look of their Afternoon Tea, a mere seventeen pounds a head. I imagine that its grounds are a real sanctuary from the visiting hoards outside. I love the dense growth of creeper spreading over its walls, hope it doesn’t have too many creepy crawlies though.
This is a real ‘Chocolate Box’ cottage but I couldn’t get the best photo because too many other people were trying to do the same.
I visited five weeks ago so I think that by now the runner beans, carrots and potatoes have put on a big growth spurt and filled a few tummies. What a pretty veggie patch.
This is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge with the theme of growth. I hope you have enjoyed it and will visit some of the others here, http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/weekly-photo-challenge-growth/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple
This weeks photo challenge has purple as its theme. Purple is my favourite colour and i wear it all winter. In spring and summer I enjoy purple flowers and keep trying to take the perfect purple flower photo, maybe one day I’ll get there. Meanwhile here are a few for you, so you recognise them all?If you would like to join in and to see some other entries http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/weekly-photo-challenge-purple/ is the place to visit.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
I’ve been waiting for a reason to post to show you the inside of Exeter Guildhall. In May there was an exhibition about the 1942 blitz and I popped in for the first time in thirty years. It is believed to have been built around the late 12th century, with a new front in the 16th and the interior was restored in the 19th century. In my photo you can see the windows reflected in the chandelier and some of the exhibition stands.
There will be hundreds of different interpretations of inside over at the Daily Post.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/weekly-photo-challenge-inside/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming
This weeks photo challenge over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/weekly-photo-challenge-dreaming/ is dreaming. They suggest a shot with an other worldly sense of escapism created with a long exposure. Mine was only a one second exposure but taken later than the hour before sunset that they suggested, and I have de-saturated it a bit because the street furniture is actually brightly coloured at night. I hope it has an ethereal effect with its ghostly shadows. 
Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement
A really difficult challenge this week. I get bored with those photos of waterfalls ‘stopped’ to white water and I’m not into sport, so for now this is the best I can come up with. But I may be back. Meanwhile a mini maelstrom of koi.
Join in over here, http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/weekly-photo-challenge-movement/
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moment 2
Like Isobel http://isobelandcat.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/fleeting-moment-on-the-street/ I have already posted a fleeting moment, but didn’t interpret the theme as it was intended. So here is my second attempt, taken on the street in Kuala Lumpur of a reflection I spotted overhead.
Lucid Gypsy 