Broadway Tower – two ways…

A special post this time round – two for the price of one (basically because I could not decide which one to use in this post – I like them both!) This is Broadway Tower, near Evesham, in the Cotswolds, UK – I’ve seen it in several guide books, but only recently discovered that it…

Old Oak Tree

This photograph was taken on the gloriously sunny afternoon of the 1st of March – the first day of Spring!  Unfortunately, the weather didn’t last and the 2nd day of Spring has been wet, windy and miserable…oh well! Still, a short walk in the sun shine resulted in some good images – the one shown…

Snowy Sheep

OK – so we’ve had no snow at all this year except for a few flakes that didn’t settle – I guess I am kind of disappointed, so I have pulled out a photograph I took around this time last year – I had taken the kids to school and stopped on the way back…

Restricted Byway

Another shot taken near to Lechlade on 9th February.  Back when we lived in Lechlade (we rented a house here for a year), I sometimes ran along this ‘restricted byway’ (not quite sure in what way it is restricted, though as you can see, it is somewhat more restricted at present!) – these fields are…

Flooded Thames Path

This is the Thames Path at Lechlade-on-Thames on Sunday 9th February 2014 …at least it is supposed to be – not much of the path can be seen.  Taken from the bridge looking downstream  – the extent of the flooding was stunning – fields all around were covered in water – I have never seen…

Abstract Sky

This photography was taken a couple of weeks ago – my daughter and I had gone for a short walk to see how bad the flooding was at that time (it has subsided quite a lot…due to lots more rain, the water levels have risen and receded again since) – we were just heading back…

Shipton Down at twilight

This is a great example of what can be achieved if you wait a while – the 9th September was a bright evening – I was late getting home but picked up my camera and drove up to the crossroads at Shipton Down….the sun had just about set and I didn’t have my first choice…

Almost home…

A shot taken on 19th October 2013 in the Cotswolds between Shipton-under-Wychwood and Chipping Norton on the D’Arcy Dalton Way – just catching the last rays before the sun went behind the clouds and the hills in the distance – it had been raining earlier in the day, but cleared later in the afternoon giving…

Birds on a wire

  Another early morning shot, just before sunrise on 8th August 2013, on the way to the station at Charlbury – normally I would avoid including the telegraph poles and wires in a shot like this, but I had noticed that there were birds sitting on the wires – almost as if they were watching…

Slow sunrise!

    Another photograph taken on the way to the station at Charlbury back in August. Glorious colours from the sunrise and interest in sky from the clouds. I particularly like the road markings – it’s adds some fun to the image. Post processing to lift the shadows and pull back the highlights some –…