Jazz or non-jazz photos

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[A Lark Ascending]

Spring is most definitely with us. Sherwood Forest leaps into life:

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especially in april

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[A Lark Ascending]

My laburnum tree just before it goes yellow.

Edited April 23, 2011 by A Lark Ascending

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Edited April 25, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[A Lark Ascending]

So which one did you order? And what was the side dish?

Very nice pictures. I rarely get close enough to animials to catch them like that. They generally run off.

[alocispepraluger102]

So which one did you order? And what was the side dish?

Very nice pictures. I rarely get close enough to animials to catch them like that. They generally run off.

these are from the local wild bird sanctuary.

they are all on the mend or permanently infirmed.

they are in huge outdoor cages.

some are released back into the wild.

some days they are all hiding.

this day i was lucky.

[A Lark Ascending]

What a difference a week makes:

[Aggie87]

Pictures from St. Maarten two weeks ago:

[Aggie87]

Tuscaloosa, Alabama - 28 May 11

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Edited June 7, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[Aggie87]

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada - 31 July 11

4,000 year old petroglyphs, Valley of Fire

Death Valley, California - 2 Aug 11

Billboard in Las Vegas - 3 Aug 11

Edited August 8, 2011 by Aggie87

[A Lark Ascending]

Sussex and a bit of Hampshire:

First one shows what you might have seen if you'd been a Norman on 14th October, 1066 (give or take a few trees, an landscaped hillside and a bloody great abbey built subsequently to make amends for the slaughter).

Edited August 22, 2011 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

First one shows what you might have seen if you'd been a Norman on 14th October, 1066 (give or take a few trees, an landscaped hillside and a bloody great abbey built subsequently to make amends for the slaughter).

Shame that they filled in some of the steep incline below the Saxon front line with soil when the B'tard built the Abbey to atone his sins ! Still a very atmospheric spot - in particular that boggy bit on the RHS where they butchered the over-eager lot who went chasing the Bretons. Still a bit boggy to this day !

If only Harold had taken his mum's advice and held off for a day. The consequences would have been huge (probably no USA for starters..)

Edited August 22, 2011 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

First one shows what you might have seen if you'd been a Norman on 14th October, 1066 (give or take a few trees, an landscaped hillside and a bloody great abbey built subsequently to make amends for the slaughter).

Shame that they filled in some of the steep incline below the Saxon front line with soil when the B'tard built the Abbey to atone his sins ! Still a very atmospheric spot - in particular that boggy bit on the RHS where they butchered the over-eager lot who went chasing the Bretons. Still a bit boggy to this day !

If only Harold had taken his mum's advice and held off for a day. The consequences would have been huge (probably no USA for starters..)

Having taught the BoH to kids for over 30 years it was fascinating to see where it happened. Much more compact than I imagined. I've drawn diagrams of Senlac Hill many times over the year - a bit weird finding myself staying at Senlac Wood campsite!

Cornwall:

Edited August 22, 2011 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

[BillF]

Some great atmospheric photos there!

[A Lark Ascending]

Thanks, Bill.

If you point and shoot 1800 times over a couple of weeks you're eventually going to get something nice!

[alocispepraluger102]

thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

magnificent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i may never pick up a camera again.

i just might become a vinyl flipper.

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm sure that for professionals or people with proper photography skills the good ones come up with far fewer shots and in a much broader range of contexts. I hardly touch the controls on my camera.

Actually one thing that frustrates me is depth of field. I had a Pentax camera years ago using film and you could see the effect of changing the dial on depth of field. The Olympus I use doesn't seem to do this. I find it hard to work out looking at the screen if I've achieved what I want or not.

Added to which I can never remember whether wide depth of field comes from a high fstop or a low (I can't tell left from right either!).

Edited August 25, 2011 by A Lark Ascending

[Aggie87]

Either way I've truly enjoyed your photos, Bev!

[A Lark Ascending]

Thanks, Aggie.

People on this board come from all over and I love seeing photos of where they live or the landscapes they cherish. Some great ones over the years from the States, Japan etc. I remember some remarkable ones from southern Russia from a poster who seems to have vanished.

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a bit weird finding myself staying at Senlac Wood campsite!

That must have been pretty well the spot where Harold's army camped the night before the battle, boozing it up to recover from their Northern exertions. Spooky !

Good to hear that Hastings is still covered in some schools at least - although I suspect that a lot of schools skip over it now. I remember doing a whole term dominated by Anglo Saxon and Viking history with lots of coverage of York (Erik Bloodaxe etc.) - but that was in the an area that was once part of the 'Danelaw'. I suspect that these days it is hardly covered.

Edited August 26, 2011 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

Good to hear that Hastings is still covered in some schools at least - although I suspect that a lot of schools skip over it now. I remember doing a whole term dominated by Anglo Saxon and Viking history with lots of coverage of York (Erik Bloodaxe etc.) - but that was in the an area that was once part of the 'Danelaw'. I suspect that these days it is hardly covered.

I've been teaching a GCSE course for the past 5 years where one of the 4 units is called Raiders and Invaders (400-1100 AD roughly). So those kids have done the 'Dark Ages' quite intensively.

Sadly the course didn't fit the new governments criteria so it's being scrapped.

Fully expecting to be teaching Castlereagh, Canning and Palmerston within 3 years! Interesting when you're grown up but can't hold a candle to Vikings when you're 15!

I think you'll find Hastings gets done quite widely in Year 7. It's a good topic to study causation - was William a military genius or was he just lucky (or Harold unlucky)?

Edited August 26, 2011 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

Yes, it seems to be a period that always has been given better school coverage in Northern schhols than the South. I ended up doing the move South right in the middle of the old 'O' level syllabus. Down here the Southern Universities curriculum was focused on 'modern social history' (Turnip Townsend, Jethro Tull and similar agricultural crap). I ended up doing the Northern syllabus European Political/Economic 1870-1945 paper (Bismarck, WW1 etc.) on my own by special arrangement (class of one, ended up sitting through a latin class effectively teaching myself in this stuff with occasional tutorials and got an 'A' ).

Back to the photties..

Edited August 26, 2011 by sidewinder