Wessex UK - ancient and modern
Featured Work
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Market Day by Richard Veal
Fresh veg on a market stall in Wimborne Market, Dorset. / All the colours caught my eye. / I focussed on the middle of the stall to slightly ‘blur’ the front and rear of the veg, and also just showing some of the prospective buyers of the goods on display. Thanks for looking. / Hope you like it. Image Info. / 6.79mb. / 3346×5013. / 400 dpi. / 1/90 second. / f4.5. / 26mm focal length. / 200 iso.
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Spans by Richard Veal
This little bridge is the old road bridge that spans the River Frome on the B3070, just off the A352 at Holmebridge, a mile West of Wareham, Dorset, England. / After so many attempts at editing, this was the best I could come up with. Hope you like it. / Thank you for looking. Best Viewed Large. Pentax K110D. / Pentax 18-55mm lens.
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Stained Glass by Richard Veal
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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The Castle by Richard Veal
This is Corfe Castle, which lies between Wareham and Swanage, in Dorset. / The castle can be seen from far away, as it dominates the Purbeck Hills. / I decided to put on the B&W tinted version as the main picture, and below, you will see the colour version. Both have been edited in CS3, just to make them a little different from the usual pics you see. I hope you like it. / Thank you for looking.
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Stour Bridge by Richard Veal
This is the bridge at Sturminster Marshal in Dorset. / The river is the Stour, which rises in Wiltshire, and enters the sea at Christchurch/Mudeford. I am glad the horse riders were crossing the bridge, as it gives more of a country look, and adds scale to the picture. / I also added an extra layer and gave it a slight blur to give a sense of movement in the horses. Thank you for looking. / Hope you like it.
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Golden Cross by Richard Veal
This cross can be found in Wimborne Minster, Wimborne, Dorset. / I wanted to capture it like this, with the main focus on the cross, and the Stained Glass Window being a blur in the background. I hope you like it. / Thanks for looking. Image Info. / 4.48mb. / 3346×5013. / 400 dpi. / 1/45 second. / f5.6. / 55mm focal length. / 800 iso.
Recent Work
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St Catherine's Trilogy - Part 2 by RedHillDigital
St Catherine’s Trilogy – Part 2 St. Catherine’s Oratory, a mediaeval lighthouse on St. Catherine’s Hill on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. In February 1314, Walter de Godeton was put on trial in Southampton before an Island jury for the theft of wine from a shipwreck in Chale Bay the previous year. He was found guilty and fined 287 marks. However, as the wine was bound for the monastery of Livers in Picardy, de Godeton was also tried by Church courts for the same offence. The Church threatened to excommunicate de Godeton unless he built a lighthouse near Chale Bay. There was already an oratory on the top of the hill, dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria. This was augmented by the construction of the lighthouse, so there would be a chantry to accommodate the priest who tended the light. The priest would also say Mass for those lost at sea. The lighthouse was completed in 1328, a year after de Godeton’s death, and was in active use until the Dissolution of the Monasteries circa 1540. Date: 29th October 2009 Click here to see Part 3.
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Writing
Just a fun piece of writing to highlight the Great West Country Getaway, which is a joint group meet taking place on March 22nd 2010 in Cornwall for a minimum of 4 nights. Also for fun, I have incorporated the names of the three groups involved within the poem. If anyone else wants to join in the fun in March, then feel free to join us.
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The Needles 1 by bobculshaw
A shot of The Needles taken on a recent trip to the Isle of Wight. Canon 400D, Sigma DG 70-300 Lens @ 70mm. ISO 100 at f22. 3 frame HDR, +2,0-2 EV’s tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2.6 and CS4 132 views at 10/11/09 Featured in ‘Out of the Blue Group’ 30th October 2009 ! / MCN: CVUY4-PQR7K-3W8U5
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Old and New by bobculshaw
This is an image of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, England taken from the Isle of Wight ferry. In the background are the masts of HMS Warrior and Admiral Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar – HMS Victory, in the Historical Naval Dockyard. The tower, at a height of 170 metres (558 feet) above sea level, is 2.5 times higher than Nelson’s Column, making it the tallest accessible structure in the United Kingdom outside London. The tower is visible for miles around Portsmouth, changing the area’s horizon. It can be seen from the Isle of Wight and even the Manhood Peninsula. The tower represents sails billowing in the wind, a design accomplished using two large, white, sweeping steel arcs, which give the tower its spinnaker sail design. The steelwork was fabricated by Butterley Engineering. At the top is a triple observation deck, providing a 320° view of the city of Portsmouth, the Langstone and Portsmouth harbours, and a viewing distance of 37 kilometres (23 miles). The highest of the three observation platforms, the crow’s nest, has a wire mesh roof, allowing visitors to be in the elements. Windows extend to above head height, so it is not possible to get a view unobstructed by glass. The glass floor is the largest in Europe. The tower has a design lifetime of 80 years. The design is similar to the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, whose structure is a little less than twice as tall at 323 m. (Wikipedia) Canon EOS 400D, Sigma DG 70-300mm lens at 70mm, ISO 400, 1/640sec, f11. Shot in RAW and converted into a psuedo HDR +2,0,-2 EV’s, tonemapped in Photomatix 3.2.6 and processed in CS4. PLEASE VIEW LARGER
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ordered by Colin Powell
column bases, the pantheon, Stourhead Garden, Wiltshire Ilford Delta 100 – Mamiya 7
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St Catherine's Trilogy - Part 1 by RedHillDigital
St Catherine’s Trilogy – Part 1 Known locally as the “Pepperpot”, St. Catherine’s Oratory is a mediaeval lighthouse on St. Catherine’s Hill on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. It was built by Walter de Godeton, Lord of Chale, as an act of penance for plundering wine from the shipwreck St. Marie of Bayonne in Chale Bay on April 20th, 1313 A.D. The lighthouse is a stone structure 4 stories high, octagonal on the outside and four-sided on the inside. Date: 29th October 2009 Click here to see Part 2.
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The Road Less Traveled by Graham Ettridge
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear; / Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same, / And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black. / Oh, I kept the first for another day! / Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back. / I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence: / Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” ~ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
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Painted Lady Gallery ~ Lyme Regis by Susie Peek-Swint
One of the little but colourful & eclectic shops in Lyme Regis .. with the very popular Cobb Gate fish & chips shop in the background :)
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Ventnor Beach by RedHillDigital
Ventnor Beach, Isle Of Wight A warm, sunny day at the end of October in the seaside town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. British weather at its unpredictable best! Situated in the Solent off the south coast of England, the Isle of Wight is 23 miles long by 13 miles wide and has 60 miles of largely unspoilt coastline from the The Needles in the west to Bembridge in the east. Ventnor faces south-east and is sheltered by the land mass of St Boniface down, the highest point on the island at 787 feet. Ventnor’s Museum of Smuggling History was opened in 1973 with the help of the local council. It features 700 years of smuggling methods and artefacts and life sized models of personalities from the smuggling past. Date: 29th October 2009
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Fungi by Jesse-Brett Atkinson
Photograph of mushroooms/toadstalls (?) taken on Salisbury Plain near Tidworth, Wiltshire.
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Mush by Jesse-Brett Atkinson
Photograph of a mushroom/toadstall (?) taken on Salisbury Plain near Tidworth, Wiltshire.
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Ventnor Haven by RedHillDigital
Ventnor Haven, Isle of Wight The Haven was constructed in 2003 as part of a long term strategy to promote Ventnor as a working seaside town. The building on the pier is a purpose built fishery, which processes locally caught seafood and sells to the Island’s pubs, restaurants and to the general public. Date: 29th October 2009
About This Group
Wessex is the ancient kingdom which now basically consists of the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and parts of Gloucestershire. I have a certain amount of flexibility as to where the borders are in respect of submissions.
There is a wonderful breadth of available material, from the ancient Stonehenge to the modern technology of the aviation and boat worlds, modern architecture etc. We have historical sites, coastline and an abundance of nature.
Please scroll down for the group’s rules – please read them and comply, especially regarding the location of your images, which must be included in either the title or in the description so people looking at the group’s work know where they are seeing
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