The subject of wind turbines seems to polarize opinion very quickly indeed – people tend to love them or hate them. Readers of certain popular newspapers are often loudest among the haters, whereas myself and and others I know are more philosophical, as at least the power from a turbine comes ‘free’. Leaving aside arguments [...]
Archive | January, 2013
SNOW BLANKETS COUNTRY
Here in the Cotswolds, it’s been a fairly continuous dose of the white stuff since early Friday – and all day today Sunday. Main roads have been kept open though, so traffic has been light but reasonably free-flowing, ‘drive with care’ being the operative phrase for safe travel. Chipping Norton’s 17th century alms houses (main [...]
50 YEARS AGO – ICE-COLD SKETCHING IN LEICESTER, 1963
I saw a headline yesterday saying that the ice and snow we have at the moment is nothing, compared to the frozen depths of 1963, all of which sparked a hunt through some old school sketchbooks from that time. Found! I don’t recall 1963 being especially cold, more like standard winter fare in the East [...]
AN ANTIDOTE TO THE WINTER CHILL – THE SEVERN VALLEY ON A SUMMER’S DAY
It’s extremely chilly in England at the moment, so to relieve the misty winter gloom, here are some shots I took in the summer. The venue is Cam Peak, on the western edge of the Cotswold escarpment, which overlooks the Severn Valley, the hills of the Welsh borders in the distance. The cows at Cam [...]
I LIKE IT, BUT IS IT ART?
Ever since the earliest days of photography, this question has been raised from time to time: “But is it art?” So to think on the subject, here are three versions of the same image, taken recently at the ancient Long Barrow neolithic site, near the ‘English Venice’ village of Bourton-on-the-Water, in Gloucestershire. “Art is what [...]
ENGLAND’S HIGHEST LAKE, MALHAM TARN – WHERE KINGSLEY’S ‘WATER BABIES’ WERE BORN
Malham Tarn is a heart-shaped glacial lake formed about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. It lies high above the craggy Malham Cove, near Malham village, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Tarn lies 377 metres (1,237 ft) above sea level, making it the highest lake in England, and [...]
STUDENTS FROM ENGLAND WIN AGAIN AT HARBIN ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL 2013
Our Nottingham ice-sculpting students have been hard at work in Harbin, northeast China, producing a hollow Earth Globe sculpture as their entry for a second competition at the 2013 Snow and Ice Festival. In the team’s words, “We won! We really did this time, we came first in our second competition alongside six other first [...]
FROM SUN TO STORM – SPECTACULAR GREY CLOUDS LOOM OVER A RURAL WATER TOWER
The weather has been its winterish self recently, with massive changes on a daily – and hourly – basis, ranging from clear, bright sun to clouds so heavy they look as if they should fall out of the sky. Of course, England is renowned for cloudy weather – it’s not for nothing that we have [...]
NOTTINGHAM UNI TEAM WIN CREATIVITY PRIZE AT ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL, CHINA
The student team from Nottingham University have hauled in a prize at Harbin, the city in northeast China, where one of the world’s biggest Ice and Snow Festivals is running. In the team’s words, “WE WON!!!!!! Well.. the Creativity Prize anyway which is a cash prize of 1000 RMB (about £100), a medal each and [...]
RIVER THAMES OVERFLOWS AT LECHLADE
New Year’s Day was dry and bright for most of the country, making it easy to see the effects of the drenching rain we’ve had over the last month or more. At Lechlade, the River Thames had overflowed into fields south of the town, turning green pastures into an inland ocean. I stopped on the [...]
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A GYPSY CARAVAN FOR SALE IN THE ENGLISH COTSWOLDS
- A few sketches!
- POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER
- INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER
- Source of the Thames
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