Minsden Chapel 1
Minsden Chapel 2
Minsden Chapel 3
Tree 1
Tree 2
Tree 3
Iron 1
Iron 2
Iron 3
Perspective (Hexton)
3+3+3+1
Stasis
The patch was cleared to put up the commercial greenhouses. Decades later, the greenhouses failed and spiralled into disrepair. The vegetation is reasserting its claim. For now, there is stasis with neither the manmade structure nor nature prevailing. At this moment – which may end with Spring growth – the measured angles and straight lines of the collapsing artifice are interwoven with an unruly growth decided by wind, rain and sun, sometimes complementing, sometimes clashing.
In Tenerife – La Laguna and Puerto de la Cruz
Two sides of Wimpole Hall in winter
Wimpole Hall is a National Trust property with a vast landscaped park. It has its folly castle and lake, a walled garden, and a stately home complete with a seemingly endless view along an avenue of trees.
In winter the park offers skeletal trees, some fractal, some colossal, and vistas over the surrounding countryside. But skirt around the house on a freezing day and is there something of the Gothic horror lurking?
The ‘barn’ at Preston
In fact, it’s not a barn, rather an old waterworks building. It’s frequently photographed, and for good reason. There is little surrounding clutter in a field on high ground. The clapperboard construction gives tones and contrasts and definition heightened by its dereliction. I think these come out best in monochrome although its autumn colours are enchanting.
At Hitch Wood
Scrapyard ramparts
Technicolour fragments
Autumn light
Knockinghoe and thereabouts
Pegsdon Hills
Some colour for the last of summer
It would be a pity not to celebrate this last burst of sun and light for the year with something vivid. So here’s one thing old, three things new, nothing borrowed and a bit of blue.
Walks in monochrome
New home page feature
There’s a new home page on Walsworthblog.com with dancers, ghosts and portraits from the gardens at Wrest Park, the stately home in Bedfordshire. See it here.
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