This is a small graveyard near wrexham. There is a ruin of a chapel in the grounds and there were some lovely flowers in the graveyard too. Visited with a couple of good friends and their daft dog.
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Sutton Scarsdale Hall is an English Heritage property in Derbyshire. See their page for information and history on the hall. It cuts quite an imposing figure high up on the hill when viewed from the road below and looks most impressive. Halo is one in a series of four sculptures in East Lancashire. This one is in Haslingedn and you can read a little more about it here. Earlier in the year I paid a visit to lincoln to experience and photograph a steam punk event. Whilst there I paid a brief visit to Lincoln Cathedral and a very attractive and impressive one it is too. There are also some shots around Lincoln Castle This is a self catering holiday home with a difference.. a bit of character. I stayed here a year or two ago. It was a wonderful place to stay. Only odd thing was that the bedroom was upstairs and the shower/WC room downstairs via the spiral staircase but this involved going outside , across a little balcony and then down the stairs - so you had to briefly go outside to go down to the toilet. OK first things first. I just want to say a massive, massive thank you to every single person I photographed during the two days I was in Whitby. Every single one of you are just fabulous, fabulous people. The effort you go to to look the way you do is amazing and you do look amazing . Your patience and good humour seem endless and you are all so friendly I loved my time spent amongst you and have already booked leave and Accommodation for the next one and cannot wait to see you again. I have had several very positive comments on my images but again I have to give credit where it's due - all your efforts make it very easy to come back with some great pictures so many thanks for making a very average photographer look better than he is :) Love and peace to you all. Mike xx OK just a quick note to new visitors to my site. If you click on the individual images they will pop up in much larger size and you can then move backwards and forwards through each set of images - just click on the right hand side of the image to move forward or left hand side to move back. If you see a picture of yourself please do leave a comment (your email address is not seen by anyone viewing the site .) It would also be lovely to put names to faces so if you are happy to do so let me know who you are. Lastly if you would like to get in touch please do - it'd be lovely to hear from you. Would love to see lots of comments from lots of people. So to the images - enjoy. Oh yes - apologies but there's going to be a lot of pictures - I whittled them down from 788 ... to ... 453 so getting them down to few enough that people don't lose interest is not going to be easy. If you do leave a comment and want to keep up with further comments just put a tick in the box next to "Notify me of new comments to this post by email " I will, at the end, post a link to my flickr set so anyone wanting to see more, not seeing themselves can view the whole 453 images. Click here to see all 453 images.
Don't forget please do leave some feedback and if you see anyone you recognise on here please do make them aware of my site so they can see the images of themselves. Thanks for looking. Spool back around 3 and a half years and I hated all graffiti without exception and with some vehemence. As my interest in visiting and photographing derelict and abandoned places grew and became the all encompassing passion it is today my views changed dramatically. I still feel exactly as I did about the random squiggles, the XXX woz ere or XXX crew garbage that adorns many an abandoned building's walls. Anything were no effort to create anything, no artistic intent is present and it's just someone leaving a mark or randomly spraying around with a spray can ... I could do that , not that I ever would. This type of graffiti I still hate. However where there is some artistic intent, where someone is creating something or at least trying to that I now like and oft like very much indeed. I now make a distinction between the two types and will happily refer to the former as graffiti but feel to call the later thus does a great disservice to the artists concerned I now refer to this as street art, for that (in my eyes at least) is what it is. A few months ago I had a day out in Sheffield with the express intent to photograph some street art with a particular emphasis on a rather well known sheffield based artist and cartoonist who goes by the name of Phlegm. All the shots in the slideshow preview are of Phlegm's work. So without further ado below shots from this day of street art and the derelict buildings in which they appeared - I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I did. I will start with Phlegm's work and in particular a piece called "the Robot" which took him 4 days to complete. To any New visitors to my site - if you click on the individual images they will open in much larger size and you can then also click backwards and forwards through he images. So earlier in the year I'd heard about this big Steapmpunk event in Lincoln - I believe the largest in the calendar. I had briefly visited a smaller such gathering and rather liked the clothes and the friendly folk I encountered and decided I would attend the Lincoln event. Next thing I know and it's the following weekend that the event was happening ..whoa where did the months go !!! So a frantic, rushed hunt for accommodation and a bed was booked. I absolutely loved the event and intend to attend many more of these and hopefully the Lincoln one every year. If any of the attendees see my site can I just thank you all for allowing me to take photos of you all and say that I think you are all amazing and look fantastic in your choice of clothing and accessories. As always I'll start with a slideshow to give a taster of the images below. This was my first ever visit to Saltaire - a UNESCO world heritage site - and it happened to coincide not just with world heritage day but also a Steam Punk event. There are plenty of sites with information on Saltaire and Sir Titus Salt including the following and many more: http://www.saltairevillage.info/saltaire_history_0001.html http://www.visitbradford.com/saltaire-airedale/saltaire-history.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Salt. Salt was quite an impressive fellow and reading about him and his life is most interesting. he created Saltaire as a village to house his workers in the woollen mills and built a church and hospital in the village too.Anyway on with the pictures from the day. I appear to have attracted some spammers posting in the comments sections - news for you - I have set it to approve so all your spam will be a) marked as such and b) deleted .
if spamming continues you may like to know that your ip address is logged by weebly with a handy link to find the providing ISP. So if you continue to offend I think a quick email with IP address passed to your ISPs should see your account suspended. Kindly go play elsewhere. Thank you for your kind attention. |
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