Beamish Museum of the North

We spent a day at the Living Museum of the North where they have reconstructed a town and Pit village from 1913. As with all these reconstructed towns, there were plenty of people playing the various roles in the museum quite happy to be photographed.

Bolton Castle II

 Images from Bolton Castle in monochrome.

Bolton Castle Wensleydale

Bolton Castle is a 14th-century castle which dominates Wensleydale. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War, but much of it remains. It has never been sold and is still in the ownership of the descendants of the Scrope family. The best ancient monument I have visited for a long while as so much of it is open to exploration with very few barriers or closed doors. I was aiming mainly to do monochrome images but some of the colours with the mixed lighting appealed so these first to set the scene. The view from the battlements covers all of Wensleydale.

Eye Green Nature Reserve

We stopped at the Travelodge at Eye Green on he first night of our holiday. The services area is pretty unattractive but opposite is a great nature reserve with lots of dragonflies and butterflies.

John Lewis Project

 
We did some photography of the Partners at work in John Lewis and on Wednesday went to see the results. In all they used 20 plus photos on their staircases and corridors. The couple in my one of the Brasserie were very happy to be photographed for the project - they had lunch in john Lewis on special occasions like birthdays.

Clare College Gardens

 The 'Tropical Bed' at Clare College Gardens is as good as ever and looked stunning in the hot sunshine yesterday.

August at Burwash

 Some images from a trip to the Dragonfly pools on a windy day - Emperor Dragonfly, Brown Hawker, Common Darter male and female (into and away from wind). Mating Common Darters - same photo processed with Lightroom only for noise, sharpening etc or using 3rd party plug ins - Focus Fixer, Define and Viveza (lefthand or top). The latter looks more natural without the slight edging.