Winter 2014/2015

Great titWinter has come and gone very quickly this year and I fear Spring will do the same. As I write this, Spring is well underway and I am just trying to catch up with my Winter photos.  A lot has happened in the last few months which has meant my blog posting has been less frequent than I would like!

Winter is generally not one of my favourite times of year, just because of the cold. I have this year been more prepared for the weather and as they say, there is not bad weather just the wrong clothing, and this year I think I have got the clothing right.

I didn’t venture out as much as I should have and maybe that’s because it flew past us. I did, however, see a Blackcap which I was not expecting, especially seeing it was on the bird table in the back garden!

A few frosty mornings when I didn’t have to dash out to work allowed me to take a few images of the landscape at dawn with the cold winter chill visible in the air.  I hope to catch more of Winter next time round as it is a lovely, still time of year.

In what’s left of Spring I’m looking forward to what I find, especially as in a field nearby I have already seen a barn owl and signs of badgers 🙂 Now all I have to do is photograph them…

Corsham Church in Winter

After wandering along some country roads, dodging the frozen puddles and stumbling upon a conservation area I never knew existed, headed to Corsham Church to see if there were any wintery scenes worth shooting.

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Avebury – standing stone

There are only a few stones left at Avebury now compared to its time of construction.  After doing a little research I have found out the missing stones were either broken up by local Christian authorities in the 14th century as part of their effort to remove vestiges of pagan religious practices, or they were removed and broken up to use in the construction of houses and the cleared area used for crops. Where the stones once stood there are now markers to show where they were positioned. It is rather sad so many were removed.

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Bank at Avebury Henge on Christmas morning

On Christmas morning instead of the usual routine, of opening presents in my PJ’s I headed out with my parents to Avebury Stone Circle for a walk. It was a lovely bright day, there were surprisingly quite a few people out seeing it was so early in the morning. This has to be my favourite shot taken from on top of the bank.

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Tree Shadow

Oh my! It has been over a week since my last update! promise to try and find more time next week…

The below image was taken last year, I positioned myself directly in front of the tree to get a clean shadow in the frozen lake.

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View from Box Hill – Winter

Hope everyone had a good New Years Eve… The below view is from Box Hill, Wiltshire. This is the heaviest snowfall this area has had so far this winter. Not very impressive coverage compared to other parts of the country but still looks nice all the same.

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