A workman in touch with his aesthetic side takes care of the needs of Mercury after the ravages of winter and squirrels with sharp teeth.
Those keen on "aesthetic" work may like to see Nathalie's post from Avignon: a fine photographer with a fine sense of humour. http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/
The cows have returned to Petersham Meadows after their winter in covered quarters.
Yesterday the cows returned!!! They rushed out of the wagon into the meadow and did a circuit at the gallop around the whole field. They have been in wintering sheds for 6 months and have returned for their 6 months on open grass.
The calves were born in January and have not seen grass or the open meadow until today. See here how they kick their heels and frolic around the meadow alongside their mothers.
Cows on the meadow are an integral part of "the View from Richmond Hill". See: http://www.petershammeadows.org/
We are all familiar with those computer programmes that convert photos to look like oil or water colour paintings.
Here I'm showing the effect of a 17th century glass window. I wanted to capture the "glimpse of a nice roof" through the church window. Looking at the photo I discovered this effect caused by the old glass. The tiny church was severely damaged by wartime bombing, but it looks as if this piece of 400 yr old glass survived.
I dithered over B&W or colour, but in the end decided that it MUST be colour.
There are (I think) two or three images here. Direct images and reflections within reflections.
This is the waiting area in the gigantic new Eurostar terminal at St. Pancras Station, London. The glass separates the area from the escalators rising to the railway tracks above. The white pillars are the original Victorian built iron support columns.
After yesterday's magnificence this may seem a bit of a let down. The tiny 13th / 17th century church of St. Peter's, Petersham, is flooded with light. These interesting "box" windows face west. I had to close down the aperture to prevent the volume of light overwhelming the camera. The photo suggests a dark interior; actually it's brilliant, as you saw in my posting of a few days ago. The old architect solved his problem in the days when weak candles were the only means of artificial lighting. Notice the candle holders placed in the windows.
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You've already seen this from a slightly different perspective, but I wanted to show this wide-angle shot because it places the glass-house in the Duke of Northumberland's parkland at Syon House firmly into its "English Landscape" setting. You enter the park and come round the bend and... !!!!... there it is!!! It's quite breathtaking to see in this context.
Even more interesting: the Duke's parkland and his great house are on the west bank of the Brent. Here we have "noble magnificence", but immediately opposite on the east bank of the river we have the highly industrial Brentford canal docks. These contrasts make a walking tour even more interesting.
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