One From Baker Street

I was in London last weekend for a food festival.  It wasn't a photography weekend (it was an eating weekend), but naturally I did have a camera with me.  I got nothing useful at the festival, but did get this shot on a walk down Baker Street.

Two From Paxton Pits

A couple of Banded Demoiselles (a male and female) taken at Paxton Pits.

 

1940s Weekend on the Great Central Railway

Last weekend, I went to a 40's re-enactment weekend on the Great Central Railway, between Loughborough and Leicester.  People photography isn't really my forte, but I do enjoy these kind of historical re-enactments.  The participants are always more than happy to pose.  I have been to similar events Ramsey a couple of times, but this was my first time at one on a steam railway.  The historic setting and the trains added  to the whole experience.

The organisers took advantage of the multiple locations that the line offered to divide up the participants.

Quorn & Woodhouse station was in the home front.

Rothley station was firmly in the hands of the Germans.  But they were serving Erdinger, so it wasn't all bad.

Leicester North became Le Birstall, in occupied France, for the day and saw skirmishes between the occupiers and the resistance.

Ox-eye Daisies

The Ox-eye daisies have been blooming along the roadside verges for a couple of weeks now.  These shots were taken outside Paworth Everard on the road to St Ives.

Blue Skies in the Lakes

Just two pictures from what turned out to be a rather expensive trip up to the Lake District - what with the new clutch for my car and all. 

As was the case for the rest of the country, the weather was superb.  Too good in fact, since a flat blue sky doesn't make for the most interesting of pictures.  However, it did work as a counterpoint to the white of the May blossom.

Cutty Sark

At the weekend, as part of my birthday treat, I was taken to Greenwich to visit the newly restored Cutty Sark.  The restoration is excellent and well worth a visit.  The raising of the ship on struts, allowing access to the copper clad hull, is particularly impressive.  Although, personally, when I stood directly underneath it, I couldn't help but give a thought to the engineers who made the load calculations.

 
Outside, the glass skirt around the ship gave some interesting opportunities for candid shots.  Especially of people peering in at the glinting hull.

Fields of Yellow and Green

At this time of year the countryside around Cambridgeshire is dominated by the flowering Oilseed Rape.  Every year I say I am going to spend some time photographing it, and every year I get distracted by spring wildflowers, AGMs, my birthday and various other things.  The fact that it is all around seems to make the Rape easy to ignore.  The tyranny of the everyday.  This year however, I have actually got around to it.  I spent last Sunday afternoon doing a quick tour around local fields.  I particularly wanted to show the counterpoint of the yellow Rape against the dark green of neighbouring wheat fields.  Of course, I am not the only person to have that idea.