Boston Stump and Town

On Thursday, the rest of our group went off to Lincoln, which we have visited several times before, so we spent the day walking into Boston, looking round the town, starting with the Guildhall and spending time  inside the Stump (St Botophs Church) enjoying the wood carving, reredos  etc.

Caldecote Open Garden

The weather was sunny with a gentle breeze yesterday for the first of two Open Garden days at Caldecote Old Rectory - a bit bright for photography but great to enjoy the wildflower and more formal parts of these wonderful garden.

Technicolour Sunrise in Toft

With clear skies and minus 4 degrees, yesterday's sunrise was spectacular - bright yellow/orange skies contrasting with the heavily frosted foliage. I decided a walk across the Golf Course might give some atmospheric shots but got distracted en route to the Church Drift by the colours and light patterns in the village and some frosted fungi, berries and daisies!

Happy New Year to 'Old Friends' in Toft

These two Hawthorn trees in Toft's Great Meadow (yes there are two!) are old friends that I have known and watched grow together in perfect harmony for the nearly 60 years. Their branches make a perfect shape as if they are one. I do not know if they started as one very small sapling that split or two that germinated together. In the Churchyard the Snowdrops and Aconites are showing quite a few blooms. A bit sombre in monochrome but it has been very grey recently!!

Candlelit Carols

This year, the Toft community carol service was held in the church rather than outside and the church was full. I wanted to try and capture the atmosphere when all the candles were lit and the church lighting turned off, using either a longish exposure with wide-open aperture and high ISO or using Olympus Live Composite mode where the image is built up by repeated exposures (second image) and a smaller aperture can be used (first image). The congregation were relatively still in the first image and is my favourite.