Poppycock II

Another image of a California poppy, growing in our garden.

Poppycock

We're at the fag end of the summer's haul of photos - there are a couple more to come, but here's one of a California Poppy growing in our garden to be going on with. 

The Trees Outside the Academy

This is one of those images - I like it, but I really don't know if its a good image or not.

We were walking back down from the island when I saw this shot - I say saw, but it was at the extremity of my zoom lens, I've had to crop it still further and I still think that it could do with a bit more in that respect. And I can't decide if I should've cloned out the seagull or not.

Sculpture Vulture

A couple more images from the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden visit. The one on the right was taken whilst seeking a brief respite from the rain. I think that the slight 'glow' from the sculpture is probably caused by condensation forming on the front elements of the lens.

Culture Vacuum

What sort of image does the term "sculpture garden" conjure up in your mind?

Perhaps rolling parkland with a few Greco-Roman figures scattered about? Or how about something roughly the size of your own back garden with modernist abstracts poking out from amongst the rhododendrons?

Well, the former is what I was expecting and the latter is what I actually got when we visited the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives. We were there recently as part of our Cornish trip. It was actually bucketing down at time, although you can't tell from the image above.

Site News

I've decided to suspend  the Shapwick Heath and Roses pages of this blog on the basis that they weren't adding anything. There's tags if you really want to look at specific categories of stuff and a comments field if anyone thinks the change is a bad idea.

Arthur's Seat

We took a trip to St Ives recently. On the way down there, we stopped off at Tintagel, were I made this image. 

Time For Tea

Yet another image of a rose. This one is a tea rose, which we rescued from the garden of my father's house and is now hanging on in there in our garden.