Final views from Northumberland

Back a week now and here are images from the final two days - a visit to Lindisfarne and a walk along the golf course at Embleton and back along the beach. Ending, as is traditional, with a fine sunset from just near our holiday house at Seahouses.

 

 

Classic Views at Bamburgh Beach

Not the best lighting for our visit to bamburgh Beach. Here a few views using slow shutterspeeds and/or foreground interest to try and make the most of the 'classic' views.

Cragside Northumberland

Rain threatened all morning last Wednesday but fortunately we managed a whole dry morning to explore Cragside, a wonderfully eccentric National Trust property. I didn't get further than the grounds which are spectacular. The house and gardens are the work of William Armstrong - Victorian inventor  and landscape genius. It was the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. The gardens are incredible with one of the largest rock gardens in Europe leading down to the Iron Bridge and an arboretum with the tallest Scots pine in England.

 

Northumberland Coast Through In-Camera Double Exposures

All but the fourth images are double exposures. I don't think all of these work but enjoyed playing and seeing what could be done with the limited double exposure setting of the Fuji X series cameras. 

 

Puffin Parade for Meredith

We booked on the all-day trip to the Farne Islands yesterday and were very lucky that the weather there was reasonable all day. I decided before I got there not to photograph many puffins but, somehow, they found their way into my collection of images. Such comic and yet beautiful birds - can one really have too many momentos?

 

 

Coastal Walk at Beadnell

A fine sunny but fairly chilly day for our coastal walk at Beadnell Bay along to the Little and Arctic Tern colony and back. Meadow Pipits used any suitable perches. Lots of Painted Lady butterflies around, many of them very tatty. The flora is typical of limestone/coastal areas with Bloody Cranesbill, Birds Foot Trefoil and Pyramidal orchids.