Uploads from Gareth L Evans, with geodata

Trip

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:11:23 -0700

I have just been given one of these (we don't use it anymore, wondered if you'd like it)

yesssss! I was given this camera (my first) for my thirteenth birthday. Can't wait to play

Bargain.... ;-)

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:56:26 -0700

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Wandering around Portobello Road market yesterday, I picked up a f1.7 Minolta Rokkor 50mm for £10.

On my old Lumix that's a 100mm f1.7 for €15 (manual focus of course, but hey)

And though not a macro it focuses at about half a metre

I think that's a bargain, he says smugly

MIchelham Priory, East Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:43:23 -0700

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A Baronial pile built over the remains of a former Augustinian Priory

A really great place for children with hands on medieval crafts, archery, cookery etc

Michelham Priory, East Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:44:53 -0700

Gareth L Evans posted a photo:

Baronial pile built over the remains of a former Augustinian Priory

A really great place for children with hands on medieval crafts, archery, cookery etc

Michelham Priory

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:02:59 -0700

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Michelham Priory, Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:55:32 -0700

Gareth L Evans posted a photo:

I truly love warm days in spring, on the cusp of summer. The early developers are already in leaf while the venerable oaks need a bit longer still

One Sister (there should be seven)

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:53:57 -0700

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Of course it was not the intention to take in churches on Monday. The real objective was to take advantage of the alignment of public holiday and the beautiful weather to go to the sea (alongside everybody else in London it seems).

Bad journey. My eight year old was sick, the car satnav broke down and we got lost. Traffic jams in country lanes. Bad temper

And about 100 metres from the sea we drove into a wall of sea mist. It went from the azure sky and balmy 22 degrees you see in some of the earlier pics to 10 degrees, clammy wetness and almost zero visibility.

So no towering panos of the chalk cliffs at Birling Gap, unfortunately (boo). But they have an eerie grandeur in the mist

Such inconveniences do not get between an Englishman and his beach fun though, no sir

Berwick Church, Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:57:30 -0700

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St Michael and All Angels, Berwick is one of my favourite little parish churches, the 14 century church It is built on what may well be a pre-Christian sacred site from which there are magnificent views of the South Downs (which can be reached on foot from the church).

It is a fairly insignificant church in a fairly insignificant village. However, after the novelist Virginia Woolf went to live in nearby Alfriston, it became a country hangout for the Bloomsbury Set. What the locals must have thought of their bohemian ways is interesting, but the local vicar knew he was on to a good thing and commissioned the Bloomsbury artists, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell to paint the church during the Second World War (hence the servicemen in adoration to the left).

The angelic figures are depicted in a naive primitve style but the human figures are real portraits of local people (Christ in a classical iconographic style).

Berwick Church Frescos

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:12:38 -0700

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St Michael and All Angels, Berwick is one of my favourite little parish churches, the 14 century church It is built on what may well be a pre-Christian sacred site from which there are magnificent views of the South Downs (which can be reached on foot from the church).

It is a fairly insignificant church in a fairly insignificant village. However, after the novelist Virginia Woolf went to live in nearby Alfriston, it became a country hangout for the Bloomsbury Set. What the locals must have thought of their bohemian ways is interesting, but the local vicar knew he was on to a good thing and commissioned the Bloomsbury artists, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell to paint the church during the Second World War. The angelic figures are depited in a naive priitve st;yle but the human figures are real portraits of local people

The first time I came here (as a rest from a walk on the South Downs Way) it was totally unexpected

Berwick Church

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:03:45 -0700

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St Michael and All Angels, Berwick

One of my favourite little parish churches, the 14 century church It is built on what may well be a pre-Christian sacred site from which there are magnificent views of the South Downs (which can be reached on foot from the church).

It is an apparently fairly insignificant church in a fairly typical village. However, after the novelist Virginia Woolf went to live in nearby Alfriston, it became a country hangout for the Bloomsbury Set. What the locals must have thought of their bohemian ways is interesting, but the local vicar knew he was on to a good thing and commissioned the Bloomsbury artists, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell to paint the church during the Second World War. The first time I came here (as a rest from a walk on the South Downs Way) it was totally unexpected

Its interesting that in the UK the colour “sky blue” is a wan, insipid pastel shade or the kind worn by Manchester City and Coventry City. In Italy the same term is a full on saturated blue thing of substance worn by the national football team – the Azurri.

Yesterday was an azure day, well almost

Wilmington Long Man, Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:03:13 -0700

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Wilmington Long Man is one of the largest and best preserved of the chalk down men.

Much as the local Wiccans would like to date this guy back to the neolithic era, there is no archaeological evidence of a figure before the fifteenth century

Commonwealth Air Memorial, Runnymede

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:01:41 -0700

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The Air Memorial in Runnymede is onscribed with the names of 20,000 airmen and women who lost their lives in the northern theatre of the 1939-45 war but have no grave

Bluebell Time

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:24:16 -0700

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Is there any finer sight than the dappled glades of spring?

Old railway workers' houses near Waterloo Station

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:56:50 -0700

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(Best seen large)

The noises around my house. On cobbles bounding
Victorian fashioned drays laden with railway goods
their hollow sound like stones in rolling barrels: the stony hoofing of dray horses

Further the trains themselves; among them the violent,
screaming like frightened animals, clashing metal:
the declining sadness of crying along the distant routes
knitting together weather and dialects

Between these noises the little teeth
of a London silence

Hollow noises, noises of travel, hourly these unpick
the bricks of a London terrace.

Bernard Spencer (1909 - 1963)

London Traffic Lights

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:44:15 -0700

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It's behind you

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:15:09 -0700

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A stream of people washed by me oblivious to the golden fireball behind them (the sun was setting directly along the sight line of Northumberland Avenue)

The homing instinct is very strong .....

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:24:54 -0700

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I wouldn't look for for these shots with digital kit but film and a vintage camera plays on you....

(this was hand held)

Ilford Delta 3200 pushed to 6400
Minolta Autocord TLR

I'm still waiting just for you

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:12:18 -0700

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Still a bit cold for al fresco night dining

Ilford Delta ISO 3200 pushed to 6400
Minolta Autocord

I developed this myself with some help. Could probably do with a crop to the right
:-)

Michelham Priory, East Sussex

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:12:10 -0700

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We sit and watch as time goes by...

nobody@flickr.com (Gareth L Evans) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:01:53 -0700

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I pass this old workshop every day in Garrett Lane in Earslfield.

Earlsfield has come up in the world recently. New shops and cafes pop up, a Carluccio's replaces a southern fried chicken shop.

But this old workshop has its back turned to change. It open every now and then, an old chap in blue cotton overalls and a toothbrush moustache rewinds electric motors, left over from days when things got repaired. It will pass as well and the developers will move in. And it will be a bit sad

Minolta Autocord
Ilford Delta 3200 (at 6400)

Digital from last year below. But film seems more in keeping