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Roaming around the ruins
At last, summer has arrived! I spent a fun afternoon over at Bayham Abbey on the Kent/Sussex border. The sun brought out the colours and textures of the old stone, and I spent time taking photographs...
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Weekly photo challenge: Illumination
In response to this week’s photo challenge at WordPress, I am posting an image of one of my favourite ruins…the imposing ruin of the abbey of San Galgano in the Tuscan countryside. I had taken quite a...
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Weekly Travel theme: Time
This week’s travel theme over at “Where’s my backpack”, Ailsa’s excellent blog, is ‘Time’. I thought about what ‘time’ evokes for me, and where, from my travels, I could illustrate this. Firstly, the...
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Lingering Look at Windows
Shortly after belatedly posting a set of windows for last week’s challenge over at The Day After, here I am posting this week’s set for Lingering look at Windows…. I was going to post some stained...
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Lingering Look at Windows
Well, here we are again for another Thursday Lingering Look at Windows….Following on from my posting last week, here as promised are some modern stained glass windows. At Fontfroide abbey, I was most...
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Autumn stroll..
I’m later than most with my seasonal images, but I thought I would create a post or two… Yesterday, I posted a view from the Gothic Temple folly at Painshill Park (as my weekly entry for the Lingering...
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Weekly photo challenge: Illumination
In response to this week’s photo challenge at WordPress, I am posting an image of one of my favourite ruins…the imposing ruin of the abbey of San Galgano in the Tuscan countryside. I had taken quite a...
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Weekly Travel theme: Time
This week’s travel theme over at “Where’s my backpack”, Ailsa’s excellent blog, is ‘Time’. I thought about what ‘time’ evokes for me, and where, from my travels, I could illustrate this. Firstly, the...
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Lingering Look at Windows
Shortly after belatedly posting a set of windows for last week’s challenge over at The Day After, here I am posting this week’s set for Lingering look at Windows…. I was going to post some stained...
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Lingering Look at Windows
Well, here we are again for another Thursday Lingering Look at Windows….Following on from my posting last week, here as promised are some modern stained glass windows. At Fontfroide abbey, I was most...
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Black & White Sunday: Darkness and Light
Today, Paula has invited us to “look for some light and shadow, for drama, for moody or even harsh lighting. The theme of this black and white photo challenge is DARKNESS and LIGHT.” I have previously...
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Pleasure of Ruins / 4 Rievaulx Abbey
My first two ruins in this series were abbeys, and here’s another one – the most majestic Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx in North Yorkshire. This time, I haven’t converted the images to monochrome as I...
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Pleasure of Ruins / 5 Jervaulx Abbey
5 years ago, I ventured North to see a longstanding friend who I see all too rarely these days. Whilst there I got to revisit Rievaulx Abbey, and this enchanting, privately owned abbey, also one of the...
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Pleasure of Ruins / 7 Jerpoint Abbey
Another marvellous old abbey ruin – alas not a great deal of it still standing. Jerpoint abbey was founded in 1160, and colonised by Cistercian monks soon after. It follows the conventional Cistercian...
View ArticlePleasure of Ruins / 8 Abbaye de Jumieges
One from about a decade ago, whilst journeying back in Northern France, the most imposing abbey of Jumieges. A most majestic 11th century ruin. I thought the structure was not dissimilar to Fountains,...
View ArticleF could be for Fontevraud
I have previously shown an image of the cloisters at Fontevraud abbey, and today will show a little more of this imposing place. For a little of the history of this place, see here A few images I took, in
View ArticlePleasure of Ruins / 11 – Time travel to Valle Crucis
I have just retitled this, as it seemed appropriate to add the post to a series I started some years ago. Yesterday, Becky posted ‘A Thursday throwback’ which in turn led to ‘Time Travel in Wales’ with...
View ArticleThe ruined abbey through the trees
Another view of the abbey folly at Painshill: Linked to February Squares at Becky’s here
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