Monthly Archives: December 2016

Tesco Dots

Sitting having coffee at the Costa in the Milton Tesco, I was struck by the repeated pattern of dots on the window and on the trolley shelters and the fortuitous star/sun burst.  After cursed myself for not having  camera with … Continue reading

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Bait’s Bite Lock 3

These two pictures depart completely from the sunrises taken on the same day and shown in the previous two posts.  They are part of a current fascination with traces, remains.  What was the building used for?  Farm machinery?  What trees … Continue reading

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Bait’s Bite Lock 2

These three pictures from 27th December continue the sunrise theme stated yesterday.  I still have reservations about accumulating these views of rosy skies, while acknowledging that they are ever changing (see post Fenscape 15, 14th December 2016).   I never … Continue reading

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Bait’s Bite Lock 1

Yesterday’s dawn walk was at Bait’s Bite Lock.  An easy stroll up the Cam from the end of Fen Road, Milton, past the Lock, to just beyond the A14.  Lights showed life aboard two boats, joggers padded up and down … Continue reading

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Beechwoods Walk

Walked from Like Kiln Hill to the Beechwoods this morning looking for landscape setting views of the woods for the ongoing project.  I’m doing this in monochrome on film, but I liked the colours of the pre-sunrise sky looking north. … Continue reading

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Bonfire Trace 2

This was posted on 6th November 2016. This is a substantial trace working at a several levels.  The materials in this stack are traces of previous objects now discarded and broken down.  The stack itself is a trace of the … Continue reading

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Fenscape 16

Early morning walks have been among the treats of recent months.  Since the first in August (13th, to be precise) the days have shortened inexorably and now it’s a matter of starting in the semi-dark and waiting for the sun … Continue reading

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Fenscape 15

Saturday 10th was gloomy, wet and thoroughly miserable.  Is it any surprise that we talk obsessively about the weather when the 11th dawned crisp and clear?  In the east the sky glowed a soft orange; in the west the clouds … Continue reading

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Buckingham Parade

To Buckingham on the 10th December to see the Humans of Cheltenham, chosen mainly as a convenient half way meeting point.  Past memories include brief stops on the long journey to the South West and a time-eroded sign that had … Continue reading

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Beechwoods Contrasts

Since I started posting Beechwood pictures in July the woods have transitioned from a dense green summer canopy through a vibrant palette of autumn red and gold to the bare grey trunks of winter now.  Recently processed film recalls the … Continue reading

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Beechwoods Chill

Today the Beechwoods looked dour in the grey light of a chill December morning.  The birds were silent, as if weighed down by the leaden sky, only a wren sang bravely with its disproportionate song before disappearing into the ivy.  … Continue reading

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Tate Modern

Discovered this when looking back at pictures to put on Trip Advisor – always worth revisiting and reworking what’s in the files. Photo: Millennium Bridge & Tate Modern, October 2016

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Fenscape 14

Bottisham Lock 1st December 2016.  Cold, frost fringed leaves on the ground and fields faded to grey.  Bottisham Lode iced over; mute swans uproot reeds searching for food in their small patch of water.  Black headed gulls ‘kwarr’ angrily; grey … Continue reading

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