Dragonfly

Dent… but wait a second, Greenbelt too!

Happy weekends are becoming fairly common experiences at the moment – last weekend a big group went up to Dent, in North Yorkshire, for a relaxing weekend of swimming, eating, chatting, meditating, walking, waterfalls… the good things in life! My favourite in this set is the last one, of our friend John climbing back down a waterfall he’d scaled.

But wait a second – I’ve just realised how long it’s been since I posted!  Here are some photos from Greenbelt, a big lovely arts festival held on Cheltenham Race Course.  The big musical highlight was 72 year old Mavis Staples – “No I won’t turn around!” – but Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies were an unexpected surprise as well, I love it when a band makes you smile just because they’re smiling so much.In peace.

Xela

All of todays photographs are from the city of Quetzaltenango (or Xela, from it’s original indigenous name of Xelajú), in Guatemala. A beautiful city.

“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards,or a field of gelded bulls -whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise”

– Mark Helprin  –

In peace

While I’m not hoping to manage to put a photo up everyday from now on, I’m going to do my best to start updating this blog more regularly and share a broader range of photos, both new and old.  I’m still in the process of going through all the shots I took in Central America, and while my equipment (especially my lens) took a hammering while I was away there are still a few I’d like to share with you all. The first one today is from Good Friday in San Pedro La Laguna, showing the beautiful shawls the women wore.  The second shot is from the market in Xela, or Quetzalatenango, a pretty typical ‘day-to-day’ sort of scene as people shop and chat and kids play.  The third image isn’t from Guatemala but from our back garden last night – a bit of time spent around a whole bunch of insects munching up pollen in the soft evening light provided some good opportunities for macro shots!

(Again, remember you can always enlarge a shot by clicking on it!)

In peace.

 

 

 

Shtuff!!

Lights and signs and shtuff.

Andrew.

At Bolton Abbey, there are these huge logs left by the path, which people force pennies into for good luck.

And this is the waterfall entering ‘The Strid’ – the river goes from about 20 feet wide and a few feet deep to less than two feet wide, 30 feet deep and with a really heavy current.

After a long long time…

It’s been a while.  Ah well.

Here are some photos from Bolton Abbey.  I’m going to start putting up a few photos every day or so, rather than just throwing loads all at once and then ot uploading anything for a long time.

Rivers and trees.  So many photos of rivers and trees!

Andrew

First development!

I’m very excited about these – I developed my first set of negatives last night (stress!) and got the prints done today at a shop in town. Oh, how much do I want an enlarger? Ok, so there’s a few water marks and things, but I was actually pretty chuffed with myself!

Andrew

I was looking back through the photos I took last week, and must have over looked these. I like the flowers, and the gate/wall/building site is very ominous…….

Andrew