Dorchester
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May 08: Briantspuddle Forest, Dorset
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Garden in Dorchester – on -Thames Oxon England
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In a college near Dorchester
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Brockhampton, Dorset. A walk along the river edge, lined with beech trees, leaves just starting to fall in the breeze. Lovely.
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An early morning autumn walk with mist ribboning across the fields. In the background can be seen the ridges of Maiden Castle. These are the outer ramparts of an Iron Age hill fort near Dorchester, Dorset.
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Another misty early morning shot taken near Dorchester, Dorset.
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Taken this morning near my home at Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset.
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rendezvous
by DoritI was out for a walk at the ancient hill fort of Maiden Castle near Dorchester. When I reached the very top I saw this couple walking towards each other. They must have been in their 70is but bravely withstood the the rain, the cold and the wind. I liked the way they slowly walk towards each other clinging onto their walking sticks. / Browse Dorit’s gallery by print format: / ~ Landscape Format / ~ Square Format / ~ Portrait Format / ~ Panorama Format / / Image Collections: Featured work Layered with Texture Monochrome Camera Paintings Floral Triptychs This & That / /
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Deep in the woods of Dorchester, NH, lies a spot where no feet have trod following the biggest snowstorm of the season so far. There the White Pines alone hold the ground against all comers. Wayne King blogs about various aspects of his work, his ideas and his images at UnifiedVisions.Blogspot.com; OpportunityAfrica.Blogspot.com and AfricanPhotoJourney.Blogspot.com. He blogs about his photographic work including tips on their creation at his “Mindscapes” Blog, http://Photoexpressionist.blogspot.com © Wayne D. King All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Wayne D. King. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.
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This 16th century Hangman’s Cottage is a delightful thatched cottage close to the River Frome in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It looks much as it did when its occupant was one of the busiest men in Dorchester – the executioner. Canon EOS 400D 18-55mm Lens
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(Building Milestones)!:http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/8396173 This milestone is built in to the face wall of The Old Crown Court in Dorchester, Dorset, England. The building has also been the site of historical milestones. The Court is famous for the of the Tolpuddle Martyrs – six farm labourers who were ‘accused’ of swearing a secret oath, as part of a friendly society, to protect their decreasing wages in 1834. Found guilty, they were sent to Australia as their punishment, but the national outrage that followed paved the way for the Trade Union movement. The court was built in 1796 during the reign of King George III but a court had stood on the site previously. Another historic milestone was the part the building played in the quelling of the Monmouth Rebellion. In 1685, Judge Jeffreys – also known as the Hanging Judge – sentenced 200 people to death, and a further 800 people were sold into slavery in Barbados. They were supporters of the Duke of Monmouth who had unsuccessfully attempted a rebellion after the death of his father, King Charles II. The throne had gone to the Duke’s uncle, the Catholic King James II, rather than the illegitimate Duke. The last person to be sentenced to hang in the court was in 1941 – David Jennings was a soldier based in Dorchester and was found guilty of murder, and the building was last used as a court in 1955. The building is now the offices of West Dorset District Council.
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A plaque on the front wall of the Old Crown Court in Dorchester, Dorset, England in remembrance of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the part the building played in their lives and the subsequent birth of Trade Unions to promote botter working conditions around the world. In 1834, six farm labourers from Tolpuddle were arrested. They were members of a ‘friendly society’ – a forerunner to a trade union. In a time of falling wages, they each swore a secret oath to help protect their income. An average wage for a farm labourer was 10 shillings a week, but the Tolpuddle men had seen theirs drop as low as 7 shillings a week, with the threat of more cuts. Swearing an oath was illegal, so, acting on a tip off from land owners worried about possible industrial unrest, they were arrested and brought to Dorchester to stand trial. They were tried before an all-male jury made up of the farmers who employed them. The farmers themselves rented their land from the gentry – but it was the gentry who had opposed the idea of the labourers uniting. The men on trial stuck to their view. Their leader was George Loveless, and in addressing the judge and jury, he wrote: “My lord, if we had violated any law it was not done intentionally. We were uniting together to save ourselves, our wives and families from starvation.” Even so, after a two day trial, Judge Baron Williams found them guilty:”The safety of the country was at stake”, he said. They were sentenced to seven years in a penal colony in Australia, where they would have been sold on as slaves. It was the maximum sentence they could have had. They had been made an example of. / News spread from the press gallery. But the Old Crown Court in Dorchester where the trial was held was one of the first in the country to have a press gallery. And because of this, news of the conviction spread nationwide. Other members of friendly societies around the country saw the events in Dorchester as a possible threat to their own societies. Huge demonstrations were organised and the authorities were shocked at the scope of the nationwide protest. And then eventually, after a change in Home Secretary, the six men were given a complete pardon the follwing year, and four years later they returned to England. Only one of the men, George Hammet, returned to live in Dorset. He is buried in Tolpuddle. The others emigrated to Canada with their families. It was the courageous actions of these men that helped pave the way, across the world, for the creation of trade unions, and the protection of employees’ rights.
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This was taken along the river frome in Dorchester Dorset with my Canon 40D, converted using DP pro and de satuated using photoshop CS2
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Daffodils in Dorchester, Dorset taken with my canon 40D
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Taken in the 12c Church in Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset England. / The village is on the A350 between Dorchester and Blandford Forum, and the church can be found on the Milton Abbas road. Thank you for looking. / Hope you like it. Best Viewed Large.
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Taken inside Milton Abbey in Dorset, England. / This is the left aisle. Milton Abbey is near the village of Milton Abbas, which is between Dorchester and Blandford Forum. Thank you for looking. / Hope you like it. Best Viewed Large.
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Dorchester Abbey The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, Dorchester, South Oxfordshire, England. Situated 9 miles south east of Oxford and less than a mile from the River Thames, Dorchester is a small village of just over 1000 inhabitants, with a great Abbey and was once an important Roman town. The Abbey you see today was begun in the 12th century and is essentially Norman in construction, though the building replaced two earlier Saxon cathedrals and there is evidence of Christian activity in and around Dorchester dating back to the 7th century. Date: 22nd March 2009 Click here to see the Abbey Guest House and Museum
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Abbey Guest House The guest house and museum in the grounds of Dorchester Abbey, South Oxfordshire, England. The museum (focussing on man’s occupation of the village and local area over 6000 years) is set in the 16th century oak-panelled school room of the building. Date: 22nd March 2009 Click here to see the Abbey itself
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New spring growth looks fresh and green following a rain shower at the River Frome in Dorchester, Dorset. One of my various lunchtime walks to relieve a stressful day at work! Canon Ixus 970 IS / Orton effect
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Birthplace of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. / Dorchester, Dorset, UK Nikon FA, Velvia film / Scanned from Slide Featured in “Cottage Style”, June 2009 The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy How do you know that the pilgrim track / Along the belting zodiac / Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds / Is traced by now to the Fishes’ bounds / And into the Ram, when weeks of cloud / Have wrapt the sky in a clammy shroud, / And never as yet a tinct of spring / Has shown in the Earth’s apparelling; / O vespering bird, how do you know, / How do you know? How do you know, deep underground, / Hid in your bed from sight and sound, / Without a turn in temperature, / With weather life can scarce endure, / That light has won a fraction’s strength, / And day put on some moments’ length, / Whereof in merest rote will come, / Weeks hence, mild airs that do not numb; / O crocus root, how do you know, / How do you know?
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Not the best quality shot as I took this with my ixus in one hand while trying to control my dog with the other! But the clouds piling up looked so spectacular I had to grab something. The building is a new office block, as yet unoccupied, in the rapidly growing ‘town’ of Poundbury, near Dorchester, Dorset. Canon Ixus 970 IS
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Used in “ROAD TO PERDITION”, now in storage
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Sunset over the rooftops near my home at Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset. Very slight contrast adjustment in PS, otherwise just as it was to the eye. Canon Ixus 970 IS
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Three trees claim the foreground of this shot of the Blackwater National Wildlife Preserve. Crusts of ice dot the wind whipped water of the marsh. The preserve is located in Dorchester County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, USA.
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