Tapestries
Description: Founded in 1156, Jervaulx Abbey was once a great Cistercian monastery. Plundered and pillaged during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, the Abbey now stands as an enchanting, charming and atmospheric ruin, allowed to flourish by its private owners with wild flowers and plants freely exploring its many nooks and crannies. Set in the midst of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, Jervaulx Abbey's dramatic and yet tranquil ambience has won the hearts of many of its visitors. We hope that this website presents a flavour of the Abbey's special qualities and acts as a source of inspiration for past and future visitors. *History* The crumbling walls of this ancient Cistercian monastery, heavily clad in their diverse vege...
Description: Taken in local park in the early morning whilst out for a walk. Came across a dipping pond with just these two ducks on. Water was very still and the light was just perfect.
Ducks Tapestry
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Description: 485m up in Wharfedale, Simon's Seat can reached by a rewarding walk from nearby Bolton Abbey. It offers views across to Skipton. he climb is well worth it as you walk through the scenic valley of desolation on to Barden Fell. At the highest point you reach Simon's Seat. It is a place that offers splendid views of the surrounding area on a clear day. After taking lunch here you can then look forward to descending to Parceval Hall and magnificent Troller's Gill. This is followed by a pleasant walk over to Appletreewick before continuing along the banks of the River Wharfe. Then you finish off with continuing to follow the Wharfe as it becomes agitated in the rapids and waterfalls that are to be found in the famous Strid Wood. This is a bri...
Description: Illgill Head Illgill Head is a fell in the English Lake District. It is known more commonly as the northern portion of the Wastwater Screes. The fell is 609 metres high and stands along the south-east shore of Wast Water, the deepest lake in England. I took this on our descent off the peak back to the car park.
Description: Taken on slide film and scanned. Tandle Hill Country Park is a country park in Royton, Greater Manchester, England. It consists of approximately 110 acres (45 ha), a combination of beech woodland and open grassland. The park contains a countryside centre (opened in 1994), picnic areas, children’s play area and numerous trails and paths into the surrounding area. Two countryside rangers are based at the countryside centre. In fine weather conditions, it offers views of Manchester and the Welsh mountains. I grew up in Royton (was born there in fact) and spent much of my childhood and teens playing there, exploring, camping, sledging etc. Also dated my first girl-friends there too!
Description: Looking from the Lands End complex area towards Whitesand Bay, a wide sandy beach in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It stretches for one mile north from Sennen Cove. Whitesand Bay beach is popular with surfers. There are toilet facilities and two car parks, one in a large field and another beside the beach. Dogs are banned on the beach from Easter Day to 1 October. The South West Coast Path runs along the dunes behind the beach. The bay lends its name to the Bay class frigate HMS Whitesand Bay. Perkin Warbeck landed here at the start of the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497.
Description: Another photo taken at sunset of Abberton Water, Essex. Abberton Reservoir is an artificial body of water located close to the coast of Essex in the east of England. It is 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Colchester near the village of Layer de la Haye. Its geographical coordinates are 51°49.2′N 00°51.6′E (grid reference TL976182). It is a large, shallow, freshwater storage reservoir and is the largest freshwater body in Essex. The reservoir contains around 25,000 Megalitres. It is a pumped storage reservoir. This means water is pumped from the rivers Chelmer, Blackwater and Stour to fill it, rather than simply relying on rainfall in the limited catchment area. The reservoir was formed by damming a shallow river valley. There a plans to i...
Description: Nestled between two rivers, the magnificent castle of Middleham has the largest castle keep in the North of England and a royal heritage that once earned it the title of the 'Windsor of the North'. Explore the town's charming cobbled market squares, Georgian and Victorian tearooms and galleries, and rich horse racing heritage.
Description: Colchester Castle is undeniably one of the most important historic buildings in the country. Colchester was the first capital of Roman Britain and beneath the Castle are the remains of the most famous Roman buildings, the Temple of Claudius. Today if you lay your hand on the stonework of the temple it can be said that you are touching the very foundation of Roman Britain. To Romans the temple was a symbol of their power and success, but to the native Britons it was a symbol of oppression. The temple became a main target of the rebels led by Queen Boudica who attacked the Roman town of Colchester in AD 60. The town's citizens barricaded themselves into the temple but after two days they were all killed. The Sacking of the Temple ...
Description: Taken one summer in the country lanes of East Anglia where we live. They look as if they truly belong together. Poppies are symbolic of sacrifice, something that all of us are aware of in these times with wars, rumours of wars and lives given up on behalf of the innocents. Hopefully (though probably wishful thinking, I know) we might soon have less needless sacrifices to remember and have more to celebrate about life, rather than death. Scanned from original 35mm Fuji slide film.
Description: Taken near Lenwade in Norfolk. We used to live on the western edge of Norwich and often go to Lenwade for walks around the filled gravel pits, now turned into nature reserves. Origonal taken on Velvia slide film if I recall and later scanned into Photoshop for correction of levels/curves and some clean-up of dust etc. Probably not the best scan I have made as it was with an old Polaroid scanner. perhaps I'll find the time to do it again on my Canon scanner that can scan slides quite well. Steve ;-)
Lenwade Tapestry
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Description: Actually, its a sculpture made from waste and its at The Eden Project! However, there is a lesson in it for all of us... that our waste will devour us all one day unless we learn to live more frugally. How to do this is something I don't have all the answers to, but unless we all try together then our Garden of Eden will become a wasteland. I decided some Photoshop work would make the monster more frightening... hope I succeeded!
Description: Taken years ago (more like decades!) of two friends as teenagers running towards the sea on summer. As the original was on slide film it needed some cleaning up so I decided to go a bit further and turn it into a dreamlike clip from a movie to reflect that it bring backs memories that more like a dream recollected in the morning. Location was on the east coast near Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Description: Taken a long time ago (we're talking so long I can't quite remember!) on a trip to Scotland. It was by train so before I drove... must be around 30 years ago. Taken on my old Paulette Electric II film camera. The trains in those days had windows in the compartments (yes, they still had compartments... told you it was a long time ago) so as I was awake with the dawn I stood on a seat, stuck my head out of the window and took just one shot... this is it! I guessed the exposure as the metering was somewhat primitive.. can't remember what it was now. I only took one for several reasons... it was film and in those days you took fewer shots to make them count and I nearly hit my head on a passing pylon! I was also afraid the guard or con...
Description: Hethersett Church is near Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia. Todays church dates from the fourteenth century with fifteenth-century additions. It is built of flints and local field stones with Caen stone dressings and the roof is of lead and slate. The tower, built in four stages, supports a lead dressed steeple which is topped by a weathervane depicting a dove perched upon a coiled serpent and holding in its beak, loves-lies-bleeding. Chequered flushwork of dressed stone and flints around the plinth and buttress facings
