oasis

I always think how lovely it would be to have a house that backed onto the river. Of course our river floods every few years and I can't imagine the stress of my house being under threat every time the rains are heavy.

City Daily Photo: Statues

It's the first of the month and so that means Theme Day!

This is Buckingham's Concrete Swan... possibly hard to see from the photo but it depicts a swan with its head down feeding in the grasses of the river. You can one of Buckingham's resident swans in the background looking for lazy handouts instead.

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swan at the river

a closer look at the swan from yesterday... right before he turned, hissed, and snapped at me :)

Swans

Along the river sits this statue/sculpture which depicts a swan with its head under the water searching through the grasses, etc. I love that it's not your typical swan... what I don't love is that it's usually covered in grafitti and riddled with litter. Note the real swan in the background :)

one of Buckingham's swans

I love swans... but the real reason I'm partial to this photo is because of the "S" shape :)

the river, swollen and muddy

After recent storms the river was running full, fast, and very muddy. Here the river passes under the Hunter Street bridge.

The River Great Ouse

glimpses of The Woolpack Pub, Saints Peter & Paul, University housing and a myriad of rooftops.

the river again!

have you grown weary of snow photos yet? lol!

I promise only a few more and the I'll get back to our regularly scheduled bleak February photos :)

a winters stroll along the river

City Daily Photo: Paths and Passages

Today is the first of the month and that means "Theme Day"! February's theme is Paths and Passages.

It is also an exercise in learning that duplicating a photo is nearly impossible! I keep getting drawn back to this footbridge across the river and the previous photo I took was, to me at least, amazing. I still like this one but it certainly has a different feel to it. I know the lighting is different, the foliage is different, the crop is different, etc. But there's something appealing about the eerie quality the original had.


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and for comparison October's photo of the same spot...

on the river

Hunter Street Bridge.

Hunter Street and The River

taken from on top of the old railway bridge.



In this photo you'll see that the river is running full and very muddy due to a few rain storms a few days earlier.

looking down onto Hunter Street

taken from top of old railway bridge.



Sorry for the gap in photos lately... learn from my lesson here... when you go out and just start blindly shooting in a hurry... because it's cold... and you want to go home...

check your settings... and don't have your ISO on 1600!

I'm struggling to salvage enough photos to get me to Monday when, weather permitting, I can reshoot :(

reflection in the river

The old mill, now part of the University of Buckingham, reflected in the river.

the weir

I love this curve in the river, and the sound of the water rushing over the weir.

mill reflection

Continuing with the trend of late posting... this is Sundays photo :)

The Sun was blazing bright and while I loved how it lit up the red brick of the old mill I was sure this photo would be full of fail. Well for the most part I was right... but what I never saw in the original setting was how beautiful the reflection was. So focus our attention on the lower half of the photo please :)

continuing along the river

reflections of green

The nice thing about England in the Winter... for the most part everything is still so green!

where the party was...

A wider look at where the previous days photo took place. A beautiful setting for a few glasses of wine, in the candle light with friends. Though perhaps not in the late/early hours that they chose... and not when it's damp :)