Bin Issues

During the summer, we went to Menorca and whilst there we visited Binissues (its pronounced Binithththth I think), which is like a cross between National Trust and a villa holiday, with the Menorcan natural history museum thrown in for good measure.

One of main differences from an English stately home is that the family who farmed the estate lived in one wing of the main house. I can't imagine our landed gentry allowing their peasants anywhere with sight.

I didn't take either of my cameras with me to Menorca because I wasn't planning to do any serious photography - it was supposed to be a family holiday, after all - so I used my Google Pixel 2 to make the images below.

The main house from the garden.

The main passage inside the main wing of the house.

The garden. Nice view.

A detail from the garden.

Another detail from the garden.

Saltram Slam

Towards the end of August, and in an attempt to generate some more images to enter into the National Trust photography competition, we visited Saltram, near Plymouth. 

As it turned out, the trip was a bit of bust for the intended purpose, although I did make one image that I eventually submitted. But I did make some decent flower images. And, in the first of what might turn out to be a new approach to this blog, here are a few of them.

Rudbeckia. Probably.

No idea.

This neither.

Nope, still none.

This is definitely a dahlia though.

Poppy Love

An image of a white poppy - there are a group of them which have been growing in our garden this summer.

Strangers on the Shore

This image is the result of a recent evening stroll on the promenade at Burnam-on-Sea. I noticed these two figure silhouetted against a band of light sand and made a couple of images. I might post one of the others shortly.