Uploads from Erasmus T, tagged hdr, with geodata

Stonehenge

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:41:06 -0800

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Happier, I think, with this effort (as compared with this one).

Natural habitat

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:34:41 -0700

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Snow would be better, of course, but this was the closest we could find.

Oo, wow, as it says on the plate ...

Beach Café, Traeth Bychan

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:39:28 -0700

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OK, so this one does look a little naff, but it's friendly and cheap and the coffee is good. Very welcome as I'd walked over the rather steep cliff path from Benllech Bay in the sun.

Don't worry, I survived, it rained on the way back.

If you have no idea where I am, I've placed this one on the map.

Pond sunset

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:35:40 -0700

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If I march through the graveyard, along the path behind the school and across four fields into the middle of the countryside, I come across this pond, which I thought might look quite nice as the sun set this evening. I quite like the dead tree, too.

After sunset

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:33:34 -0700

Erasmus T posted a photo:

Looking vaguely South-West from Mill Hill, Shoreham-by-Sea, after an Autumn sunset as the sky glows orange. We've been here several times before, but I liked the light tonight.

I've placed it on the map and noted a few landmarks, although you can only really see them at the large size, and then you can't see the notes! Ho humm ...

St. Mary the Virgin, Stopham

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:14:29 -0700

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This is a Norman church in the hamlet of Stopham, near Pulborough, West Sussex (see map).

This church is absolutely pristine inside and this treatment makes it all look a bit faded and grubby - which, I should point out, is not really the case. I think it makes it look a bit more interesting, however!

There are ancient brasses but these are concealed beneath a protective carpet. Impressive flowers in the chancel by Lady Fiona Barttelot, whose family has owned the local estate since 1379.

Not very bright in there, the Gorillapod came in very handy to clamp on top of a pew end.
Don't worry, I remembered to turn out the lights before leaving.

Spring

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:54:49 -0800

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By my reckoning, today (1st March) is the first day of Spring.

Great Dixter was open at the weekend and the crocus (I'm avoiding 'crocuses' and 'croci' !) were properly out, which is an improvement on the last couple of years.

For anyone keen and within reach, it's also open next weekend. For the avid horticulturalist, they have an excellent nursery; plenty of things you won't find in your local garden centre.

Actually, for anyone planning a day out, this is just a few minutes away and also open.

www.greatdixter.co.uk

Guess where

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:52:34 -0800

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Hardly needs a title, really.

I'm visiting Mother and she felt like a little drive. Oddly enough, neither of us had ever been to Stonehenge, so we set off in the Yeti.

Rather a standard shot, but it had to be done.

I may fiddle about a bit - straighten it up (low, wide angle), clone out the theodolite to the left etc.

St. Olaf's, Wasdale Head

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:43:32 -0700

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Very unprepossessing from the outside, looking a bit like a pebble-dashed shed, this is apparently the smallest church in the country. I know I've been in smaller, but I'll concede that they were probably officially 'chapels'.

The roof timbers are reputed to incoroprate beams from Viking longships, and the name comes from an early Viking Christian, named to commemorate the Viking settlers in the area.

If you go down to the woods today ...

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:40:58 -0700

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Not much of a big surprise, actually, and it's a shame that Humphrey wasn't available to pose with a sandwich.

These are the woods off Spithandle Lane betweeh Wiston and Ashurst, West Sussex.

I made a bit more of an effort for the daily shot today, having been rather ashamed of yesterday's poor showing - and it's not crooked, it was sloping, honest.

It's also Earth Day in the US - which, although it tends to go largely unremarked in these parts, is a worthy endeavour.

It all makes me quite glad to have found a woodland heavy with the sultry scent of bluebells and light with silver birdsong for a gentle evening stroll. Makes one wax lyrical ...

St. Andrew's, Winterborne Tomson

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:12:30 -0700

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A very unusual virtually unaltered Norman church (early 12th Century) which still has the round apse at the East end. Normally this has been replaced by a rectangular chancel. It's been like this for 900 years. This is in Winterborne Tomson, near Anderson just off the A31 at Red Post in Dorset. Well worth locating if you're passing (see map).

The oak box pews and fittings are early 18th century.

I'm going to use this as my 52 Themes 2009 Religious theme photo because it's the oldest and simplest and most unaltered religious place I could find this week and, as such, had a certain honest, rustic charm, I felt (even to an old atheist such as myself!).

Tarrant Crawford church

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:47:53 -0700

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I dug out the IR converted D70 this morning on a visit to Tarrant Crawford church in deepest Dorset.

It's an isolated 12th century church dedicated to St. Mary and contains some very rare mediaeval wall paintings, some of the best in the country.

No cricket today

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:28:17 -0800

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Quite an interesting image, I think, as it seems to be in two very distinct bands.

Across the bottom we have the clubhouse and grounds at the Spen Cama Memorial Ground of the Preston Nomads Cricket Club, Clappers Lane, Fulking (splendid address), which looks quite green and pleasant. Across the top you can see out past Steyning to Chanctonbury Ring on the hill, which looks decidedly more wintry.

We've had a bit more snow to end the week and lend this alpine aspect to the Sussex Downs. This was taken from near the layby at Saddlescombe which affords particularly good views along the Devil's Dyke ditch and along behind the Downs.

I passed Ken, touchingthelight on the road whilst driving up to get this shot, so I'm wondering if he was out on a photographic foray as well ...

Frost

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:34:05 -0800

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Just North of Henfield, West Sussex, England, on a particularly cold January morning. Freezing fog for a couple of days has produced a very good hoar frost on all the trees.

Not a very colourful shot, and it's maybe a bit flat, but I liked the pastel tones. It was dull and foggy, after all ...

I like this one, so I'm very pleased to report that it's popped up in Explore.

Shoreham wreck

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:47:55 -0800

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I had been meaning to have another go at this scene, and the sky looked OK today, so I braved the mud and got down a bit lower this time, which I think is more dramatic than my previous effort.

The newly restored wooden toll bridge over the River Adur can be seen in the distance, with Lancing College Chapel on the hill behind. I've placed the photo on the map.

Great to get out and actually have some proper light for a change.

This one has just made an appearance in Explore.

Remembrance

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:31:34 -0800

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The afternoon of Remembrance Sunday at the war memorial at Stopham, West Sussex.

For the curious, I've done HDR from 7 files then some selective colour. I had to paste in the fluttering flag from one of the originals to get it sharp. The mono conversion is mostly red channel, then some green but not much blue (to heighten the contrast).

I was a few minutes this morning thinking of where I could find the nicest war memorial, and I went for this one. It would have been more poignant had the flag been at half mast, but it seemed a bit cheeky to move it (in Photoshop, I mean!), so I left it as found.

Hove beach huts

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:57:16 -0700

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I thought I'd get in early with the 366 2008 theme "doors" this week.

All Saints Church, Buncton 2

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:20:29 -0700

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An isolated little Norman church, reached by a path through some woods and across a stream. There are seemingly random bits of arch built into the walls (and some wonderful ones outside), believed to be re-used stone from earlier buildings. There are also Roman tiles randomly incorporated into the walls.

The only remaining door faces North, the South door having been long since removed. This chapel has never had a porch.

All Saints Church, Buncton 3

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:20:37 -0700

Erasmus T posted a photo:

An isolated little Norman church, reached by a path through some woods and across a stream. There are seemingly random bits of arch built into the walls (and some wonderful ones outside), believed to be re-used stone from earlier buildings. There are also Roman tiles randomly incorporated into the walls.

I found the bible open at the Apocrypha, which I rather liked, so I included it in the photo.

All Saints Church, Buncton 4

nobody@flickr.com (Erasmus T) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:20:43 -0700

Erasmus T posted a photo:

An isolated little Norman church, reached by a path through some woods and across a stream. There are seemingly random bits of arch built into the walls (and some wonderful ones outside), believed to be re-used stone from earlier buildings. There are also Roman tiles randomly incorporated into the walls.

This is the view from a pew, just behind the door. There is a good chancel arch and some interesting roof beams above.