Cloud 2338

Chimney

Balcony

New Lamp

Brain Tree

Lichen

A Bird for Christmas

Robbin

Rocacuatra

Painting Number Four

Rocatres

Painting Number Three

Rocados

Painting Number Two

Rocauna

Painting Number One

Broken Lamp

Nice lamp I saw last winter. Had to work on this a bit with the old photoshop...

The Pyrenees

Daytime Nightime Grass




Fungus




Butterfly




Blue Flowers and Bitchu




Dandylion




Mini Forest




Crocus

In The Pyrenees

Droplets and Leaves




Spikey




Parallel Vapour Trail




Pink Trees in the Forest




Pod

Lake District

Street Tunnel

Some where in Spain probably Cadaqués. Yeah you know near where Doli, Duli, whatisname Oh yeah Dali lived.

Sky

Beautiful Beggar

I met this guy sitting by the side of the road between Kulu and Manali. It cost me a rupee to take his photo. He is colourful though isn't he?
This was on the main road in Kulu Valley also known as the Valley of the Gods where each of the villages is supposed to have a god living there.

Fighting Saints

Saint George

Saint George, a very popular saint. If I were to say I come from a place where he is the patron saint and I live in another place where he is the patron saint I wouldn't be telling you much. Check it out Saint George .

Saint Michael

Saint Michael, cast out the devil, this is also interesting St Michael's ley.

Gargoyles

Doggy Gargoyle




Shifty Gargoyle




Monkey Gargoyle - Hear No Evil?




Cold Devil Gargoyle




Thoughtful Devil




Strange Child Gargoyle




Ram Gargoyle

Robert Duke of Normandy

Robert's Tomb

What else to say save that Bill the Conq did his stuff on England in 1066 which was the last time that land was invaded. The yanks did have some soldiers wandering about for a while, but they left by themselves, and no where near as many as they do now but that isn't an invasion, is it?

Cloister Ceiling

The ceiling of the cloister in Gloucester Cathedral this is where a lot of the leaded windows were located especially the ones that were easiest to view as you were closer to them...

Laycock Abbey -

A Country house created out of a medieval abbey, the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, Ok he's the geezer that invented the type of photography we use today or did until the digital stuff came along. That is with a negative 'cause there was a frog bloke that invented a version that didn't make copies, Dauguerre, that's who I'm thinking of, more history - History of the Digital Camera... - Well so it goes. No it wasn't a pilgrimage. This abbey was for nuns which wasn't so common in England, unlike Spain which also had some mixed ones for a while. I digress, what a surprise

The Lights, The Lights

Temptation

This window is one that is part of the cloister of Gloucester Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in England, (that's for the yanks). It is the devil tempting Christ when he went into the desert. Unusually I thought is the choice of blue, a rather cold colour, for a being, mythical or otherwise, that is supposed to live in such a warm environment. Thinking some more about this perhaps its a similar idea to that which colours the Hindi god Krishna who if I remember correctly is blue as he has taken all the posions of the world into his body to remove them from the world. So perhaps the blue means that el diablo is poision.
Well, the big window is, if I remember right over 700 years old and two thirds original, so maybe this one has similar antiquity and they had different associations of colours then.

Brollynsky

No Storm

Brollynsky Closed

Painted Sky

This was a good day for photos I just sat on this terrace with a drink and kept on photographing the sky. It was great it was so blue and had all these fantastic clouds. I think the people I was with thought I was crazy but nevermind...

Flutterby on Stone

BIRD