Category Archives: Photos

A new day dawning

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Grantchester Meadows this morning

The people who walked in darkness

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I seem to be doing a lot of this at present. This was sunset over Fenstanton as I was setting out for the Sunday afternoon dog-walk. These days I regularly find myself in a pitch-black wood looking for a pitch-black dog, but it’s usually a wood I know well. This, on the other hand, became a longish walk in a pitch-black wood that I’d never visited before.

Seemed quite nice, though. Must go back in daylight sometime and see what it actually looks like.

Early Saturday Morning

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I was up a bit earlier than usual for a Saturday, but one of the good things about the year drawing on, for a somewhat lazy photographer like me, is that I’m much more likely to be up at sunrise in the winter than I am in the summer! This was a quick iPhone snap while walking Tilly.

Full of the joys of autumn

It was beautiful at Holkham Beach today. Everyone was having fun…

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Really wish I’d been the one in front of, instead of behind, the camera in some of these. I’ve never ridden in a place like this.

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Those having fun included, of course, Tilly…

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Click for larger versions.

People who live in glass houses…

…may want to install their lavatories elsewhere?

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My vegetable love should grow…

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It’s an embarrassingly long time since I last visited Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Probably measurable in decades.

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And that’s a pity, because it’s walking distance from my house and, as I discovered again today, it’s really a very pleasant spot.

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It’s that tree again

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I know, I keep taking photos of it, but, hey…

Mr Blue Sky

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Pretty clouds today, stretching as far away across East Anglia as I could see.

You should have seen the one that got away

They’re filming the new season of Grantchester in, well, Grantchester, at the moment. I wrote last year about spotting a favourite tree in one of the episodes. Well, it must have been a good location, because they were setting up for filming there again this morning as Tilly & I walked past.

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Were I a true paperazzo, of course, I would have had something better than a zoomed iPhone camera with which to take the picture.

More importantly, it would not have been back in my pocket when, a few minutes later, the stars (James Norton and Morven Christie), in full costume and beautifully lit by the early morning sun, smiled their thanks at me as I stepped aside to let their LandRover cross the cattle grid. 🙂

Arboreal Exuberance

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Bird Hills, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This unusually-shaped tree changed its appearance completely as I walked around it, but this was my favourite angle. Click for larger image.

The times, they are a-changin’

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Having bought a large number of items on Amazon this week, I felt there was a certain irony about this sign at a bricks-and-mortar store…

Wigglewood

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