A photo for Earth Day - # 09/57

Nuclear Spring - Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Orford Ness.

The very edge of the weather - # 08/257

Mariners and those who live in wide open spaces may see this often, but it's rarer in the smaller more contained horizons around here. Looking up I was suddenly surprised to see this clear difference between the weather I was getting and what was being enjoyed not very far away.

6 miles high - # 08/177

Wispy reeds by the pond and clouds in the sky - # 08/134

Late evening sky, light, high cirrus clouds, reeds catching the light, as dusk gathers around the pond in Ham.

Turbulent sky, calm pond- # 248

Striving to make the best of some very dull weather, I continued to enjoy the reflections in the pond.

Suddenly the sun began to burn through the cloud and this dramatic effect appeared.

I was photographing the stick in the water. Suddenly it took on the appearance of a flying broomstick out of a Harry Potter story, shot down and lying wrecked in a magical sea, or perhaps a derelict space ship in a primordial gas cloud close to the beginning of time (well, something like that, probably, eh?

Townscape 20 May 2007 - # 129

11.45 on a Sunday; glance down the street and you see it: a fine combination of nature and man made, earth and sky, vegetable and mineral, organic and hard formed. I love the way these roof angles fold together and the way that the architects of the modern building in the foreground have sensitively matched it with the 1890's/1900 structures behind. The colour of the roof slates harmonises well with the remarkable sky tones, and the green trees hold it in a comfortable frame.