This Was May, But Is It Spring?
It certainly looked like spring as we pursued our May explorations of Broseley’s lanes and jitties – but then looks can deceive. The trees in these photos may be bursting with greenery, the hawthorns...
View ArticleNaturally Fragmenting
Winter windfall apples as deconstructed by blackbirds * And things blown apart… Thistles * Opium poppies losing their ‘skirts’ * Dandelion clock * And tree fragments: Bird Cherry leaves Lens-Artists:...
View ArticleNice To Meet Ewe…
* The sheep eyeing me here is posing so neatly beneath the rocky outcrop of the Devil’s Chair. She is clearly untroubled by that landmark’s eerie and supernatural associations. This is a stunning...
View ArticleSimply Does It
Wild oats and a summer storm brewing: I liked the muted tones in contrasting textures. * These convolvulus flowers seemed to light up a shady corner: * The barley field: shades of green with front row...
View ArticleOver The Hills And Far Away…
At last. We’ve landed. I’m back. And on a whole new edge; no longer Wenlock, but on the border between Shropshire and Wales. And although we are finally here in body, there’s still a sense of too long...
View ArticleMysterious In Monochrome: The Shropshire Borderlands
This week at Lens-Artists, Anne from Slow Shutter Speed asks us to think about monochrome and black and white photography. Click on the link below to see her post. My first photo here was edited from...
View ArticleStiperstones Trail: Not For The Tender Footed
* In the last post you saw the Stiperstones in brooding monochrome. Those photos were taken on a dull and windy summer’s day. It was our first attempt to reach the Devil’s Chair. I had never seen it...
View ArticleOld As The Hills: That Would Be 570,000,000 years
I recall being told by my geography teacher (aeons ago) that the Shropshire uplands comprised some of the world’s most venerable rocks i.e from the Precambrian era. The hills in question lie either...
View ArticleIn A Winter Light
This week Amy at Lens-Artists wants us to show her contrasts. Here are some of mine from winter sojourns on the island of Anglesey in North Wales – a favourite destination for family Christmas...
View ArticleAncestral spaces
Offerton Moor viewed from Callow Farm, Highlow, Derbyshire * I’ve been posting views of South Shropshire lately, the green and wooded hill country of my home county. It is a terrain that, on the...
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