For the last few months I have been commuting to work by train and bicycle. This gives me a few minutes to just sit and stare out of the window (on the train part that is!). It’s a lovely journey heading north from Oxford, following the route of the South Oxford Canal. Just north of [...]
There is a lovely exhibition on at the Banbury Museum — The Magic of Masks and Puppets. So I took the chance to wander around, glad to have the exhibition to myself… Although the exhibition only occupies a small area, it does cover quite a wide time scale of puppetry, from early Chinese puppets right [...]
A lantern, which hangs from the tiller of my boat.
Yeah, clichéd to hell, but I couldn’t help myself! Wasn’t in the best of moods either.
Not as bad as it seems — taken from a balcony at the Tate Modern, where I went to see the Exposure exhibition.
Every now and again I like to become part of the image…sometimes it is purely for fun, sometimes there is a message (internal rather than external)…but naturally over time the meaning can and does change. That is the wonderful thing about photography…an image can have so many different meanings depending on who is looking at [...]
As well as the beautiful landscaped gardens with water features and sculpture, there is also a large kitchen garden. Wandering through this is like being in a perfumers! . . .
Dotted around the beautiful grounds of Rousham Manor are a myriad of statues and sculpture…some of them quite Gothic! . . . . . .
I went to Rousham at the weekend. Even though I have lived in Oxfordshire for twelve years or so, I have never visited this William Kent landscaped garden. What a pleasant surprise the visit was…an extremely peaceful experience, with loads of fantastic photo opportunities (I’ll definitely go back!) and a lovely bike ride from Banbury [...]
I am lucky to be have a variable distance option to work, depending on how far I take the train in the morning. If I’m tired, I have a six mile each way bike journey at the other end, if I’m not, my preferred route is 12 miles each way. It’s a rural route…i.e. small [...]