Running shadows

Posted on August 15, 2014 Posted in Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTagged Beach, Exmouth, Photography, Running, Silhouette, Weekly Photo Challenge28 Comments

Photography is all about experimenting with light, and then positioning yourself (or your subject) in the right spot to achieve a certain effect. One such effect is a silhouette, in which an outline of someone or something appears dark against a lighter background. Silhouettes can be very dramatic and resemble black shapes without any details, but the effect varies from picture to picture.

Says Cheri Lucas Rowlands. I thought of this image I took recently on the beach at Exmouth, and I quite like it.

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Lazy Poet’s Thursday Poem

Posted on August 14, 2014August 14, 2014 Posted in Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized, WarTagged Conflict, Lazy Poets Thursday Poem, Photography, Poetry, War11 Comments

Petals of loss

Have we forgotten?

So it would appear.

One hundred years and no lessons learnt.

How many images of atrocity

must we see before enough is enough?

Mankind has battled since time began,

does that mean we must until the end?

And womankind, we’re not without guilt,

warrior queens were not legend but manifest.

Leave battles to the playground

To the realms of history, herstory,

fiction and myth.

Cease now,

while a poppy still blooms on this earth.

Wordless Wednesday

Posted on August 13, 2014August 10, 2014 Posted in PhotographyTagged People, Photography, Wordless Wednesday11 Comments

Sidmouth’s 60th Folk Festival . . .

Posted on August 10, 2014August 10, 2014 Posted in Devon, England, PhotographyTagged Annings Cider, England, Goodnedd Gracious Healthy Foods, Goodness Gracious Healthy Food, Photography, Sidmouth Folk Festival 2014, Sidmouth folk festivsl 2014, Street Heat, The Anchor Sidmouth13 Comments

. . . was last week, and I spent two evenings there enjoying the street entertainment and the lovely relaxed atmosphere.

As always there were lots of crazy characters around.

Good food, I remembered my favourite from last year, so joined the queue again.

For falafel and goodness salad stuffed pitta with grilled halloumi on top.

There was folk dance around the town, and beside the sea.

and the girls from Fosbrook accompanied their dancers on violin.

A nice drop of special Annings cider!

The fabulous samba band Street Heat, chilled outside the Anchor before their performance on the sea front.

I burnt a few calories dancing to the beat. You can check them out here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2UI5jWqxBw
As if this wasn’t delightful enough, I also had a lush salted honeycomb ice cream
Jo Bryant if you come to the south west next year come in early august 🙂

Nature and coast

Posted on August 8, 2014 Posted in Nature, Photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo ChallengeTagged Beach, England, Lyme Bay, Nature, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge24 Comments

When I think of texture I think close up and one the places I like taking close up photos is the seashore. I lovely pootling around a beach in winter hunting for treasure that has been delivered by the tide or has waited for millennia for my lens. So this weeks photo challenge was easy, simple photos from nature.

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Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku

Posted on August 7, 2014August 6, 2014 Posted in haiku, Nature, UncategorizedTagged Haiku, Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku, Nature, Photography9 Comments

Rowanberries red
harbingers of sharp winter
sustenance for birds.

Some Local Zigzagery

Posted on August 2, 2014 Posted in England, Weekly Photo ChallengeTagged England, Exeter, Exeter Cathedral, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, Zigzag23 Comments

There’s no need to look very far to find zigzags, most towns and cities will have architectural features that meet this weeks photo challenge.
Apart from some natural zigzags, mine are all photos taken in Exeter Cathedral and surrounds.

Twiggy zigzags

Zigzag skyline

I’ve always liked the style of this building opposite the cathedral

Zigzag vaults

Exeter cathedral’s new nave altar

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An English Country Show

Posted on July 31, 2014 Posted in Devon, PhotographyTagged Bug Hotel, Ceylon Curry House, Devon, Kalash Tribal, Mid Devon Show 2014, Photography, Pretty Cow, Widecombe Wag25 Comments

Saturday was one of those steamy July days when a craft marquee isn’t the best place to spend the day. Luckily for me, I was able to escape at regular intervals and check out some of the goings on at the Mid Devon Show. There’s always lots to see, but I only ever manage little glimpses. Here are some of them, starting with some classic cars.