Nottinghamshire - Photography Week 21 (2016)

Taking a break from the Cornwall coast, I visited a number of familiar locations around Nottingham.

Dorket Head

The valley between Dorket Head and Woodborough has provided a number of excellent images over the years. This is one of my favourite views:

Crop rotation means there is always something different to capture. This year's crop is wheat:

Wildflowers near Calverton

These are a few of the wildflowers captured on the reclaimed spoil heap near Calverton:

Common Vetch:

Bird's Foot Trefoil

White Campion

Forget-me-not

Stitchwort on the path near Dorket Head

Not totally sure but I think this flower might be 'Honesty'

Church/Rock Cemetery

There is plenty of Victorian architecture in the city of Nottingham including Rock Cemetery. It is built on a sandstone hill and is renowned for a number of caves and some striking gravestones and statues (1)

Robin Hood Hill

Images starting from Greaves Lane towards Robin Hood Hill and Oxton:

(1) http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/807?preview=1

Penryn Harbour Walk - Photography Week 19 (2016)

In addition to the images of the Andvari, these are a selection of other photographs taken whilst walking from Penryn Harbour towards Flushing.

St Gluvias Cemetery

The harbour path passes through a pine covered cemetery which is part of the historic parish of St Gluvias dating from the 6th century. The chapel and a number of the gravestones date from the mid 19th century:

Dinghies

I passed a number of dinghies lined up on the shoreline and stopped to captured these textures of cracking fibreglass (and a sorry looking one-legged Teddy!):

I often wonder whether images of textures and surfaces have a general appeal. It might be a photographers' (or some photographers') subject only. I certainly get a few curious looks at times and the odd person asking what I am taking pictures of - they seem none the wiser when I explain!

For anyone with an interest I would recommend a great book by Polly O'Neil - Surfaces and Textures - A Visual Sourcebook (A & C Black Publishers, 2008)

Flushing

More surface and texture shots of the workshops on the outskirts of Flushing and a couple of reflections:

Egret & Orchid

I spotted this Egret in Gorrangorras Creek. Even at 400mm it was small in the frame but I was surprised at the sharpness after a large crop. Also nearby was an early purple orchid (Orchis mascula).