These new photos have been taken with my new Nokia Lumia 920. Enjoy!
And here’s some more of my favourites.
Hope that you’ve enjoyed my snaps, all taken with my Nokia Lumia 920 phone whilst walking about the vicinity.
TG
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Just some shots I’ve taken as I journeyed down to town this morning. Taken with my Nokia Lumia 800 on a glorious sunny day.
This scene caught my eye as the sun streamed through this foliage on my way down the hill to town.
Again, a couple of shots of the sun behind the trees as I walked past.
I couldn’t resist a shot of this letterbox on this ornate gate belonging to a house I walked past.
These two shots are of Chloe, who is still waiting for a buyer. She is the last boat built by the now sadly defunct Sagar Marine who were narrow boat builders in our town.
In fact, the whole marina seemed rather quiet today. Perhaps everyone has gone sailing up the canal to pastures new.
The sun created shadow patterns on the road, and I was struck by the different shades of green in this garden as the sun shone on them.
Sunlight streaming in as I try to capture the distance through the trees and also a shot of them forming a sort of canopy over the road.
Technogran
We currently have a very small funfair in our park, situated in the back football field behind the flower beds. As we had some time to spare this morning on our way to Tesco’s, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take some shots of the stalls and rides as we passed. I also took some shots of our flower beds, which although I’m never keen on the cultivated flower bed appearance, much preferring the haphazard sight of wild flowers, I thought I’d put my Nokia 800’s camera through its paces to check the colours.
First shot is taken with the flower beds in the foreground and the Funfair visible in the background.
These peachy coloured roses caught my eye, covered in raindrops.
My only model is always willing to pose, here looking thoughtful on one of the park benches which are strategically placed around the flowerbeds, mainly so that residents can wile away the time when the weather is kind.
Another shot of some peachy coloured roses covered in raindrops.
I liked the colourful fencing placed around this ride.
She has such a good memory, that she can remember her and her brother riding in some teacups like this when they were children.
Not much fun with no one inside it!
They even have a smallish Helter Skelter.
I have some bad memories of riding on the Walzer, as it was called in my younger days. Feeling sick being one of them.
It’s not really a waterfall as such, but a pleasant sight all the same.
My model makes a last pose on the wooden bridge.
Hope that you’ve all enjoyed a small glimpse of our park as we journeyed through it this morning on our way to do some shopping.
Technogran
Between a fairly busy schedule of hospital visits this week, both on my own account and to visit my sister, we managed to join Heartbeat on a walk this Saturday along the canal at Mirfield. We’ve done this walk many times before and its always enjoyable, especially if the weather is kind.
Setting off at a brisk pace along the towpath, I was struck by these very colourful ropes used to tie this narrowboat up to its moorings.
Across the canal, I spied this willow tree lowering itself into the water, causing some really nice reflections.
As we passed, we spied this well kept horse grazing alone in a field. It probably belongs to the house you can spy behind the field.
Eventually arriving at the Lock and this lovely little Lockkeepers cottage which appears to be lived in and well looked after. I loved the bright orange lifebuoy propped up against the wall outside.
There are usually flowers growing along the canal banks or at the side of the towpath, and this stretch of the canal is no exception.
Here are some more wildflowers displaying lot’s of different colours, even the thistles.
This shot shows our return journey. I took it because of the patterns that were created across the towpath by the trees and the reflections in the water.
Further along the towpath, you arrive at this wall at either side of the canal, which apparently was a bridge for a railway years ago, but is now overgrown with fauna.
Amazingly enough, this was the only narrowboat we saw all day actually moving down the canal. We all gave a cheery greeting as usual.
Here’s my last shot of the canal at Mirfield as we all made our way over the bridge to the car park for our lunch. It’s amazing to think that what has now become a place for recreational boating and yes, in some instances a home, was once the backbone of our industrial transport.
Technogran
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There’s a saying amongst many online photographers. The best camera is the one you have with you, and these shots prove that saying true. I am also finding that I am getting better at taking shots with the camera in my Nokia phone. On our way to have an x-ray done yesterday at the hospital, I took the opportunity to try and illustrate various fauna and flowers after the rain. I did have to keep stopping of course to take each shot, but I didn’t take my time. Hope you enjoy them all.
This is taken over the wall of some wet fauna growing in the old grounds of the ruined residential home that we pass on our way down to town.
Just a golden mass of flowers as we walked down the hill.
This is part of someone’s hedge at the bottom of the hill, and it has these very attractive gold and white flowers. Note the raindrops.
Across the road, this garden has a wonderful display of lavender and I love the colours.
I couldn’t resist taking a quick shot of these pink flowers covered in raindrops. They look to be bowing their heads.
Just outside the hospital car park is this gorgeous display of mauve and purple, so I took two shots of these. Not entirely in focus, but a lot depends on where you tap the screen on the Nokia.
And here’s my other capture of their beauty. They are very close to a busy road junction, and you can just see one of the bollards at the top right.
These golden beauty’s were growing at the side of the road as we walked into town.
As I took this shot of these beautiful roses peeking out from the hedge of a garden, the owner came out to see what I was doing!
This statue is of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s escort. It’s actually a teal colour but I decided to give it the black and white treatment.
This ornate coal grate caught my eye as we neared town. I might do a blog post soon on this very subject. There were actually two of them, both identical.
That’s all for now folks and keep snapping!
TG
