A carpet of bluebells covering a woodland floor, photographed at ground level with a shallow depth of field. The foreground flowers are in focus, showing their characteristic drooping bell-shaped blooms on slender green stems, while the background blurs into bokeh of trees and warm golden light filtering through the canopy.

2/5 Bluebells

For my visit to my local bluebells in Wanstead Park I took a couple of elderly digital cameras noted for their colours.
This is with the #fourthirds #CCDsensor #OlympusE330 and the #Olympus50mmf2 macro.
#photography #bluebells #flowerphotography

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A close-up photograph of bluebells in soft evening light, with a single stem in sharp focus rising above a sea of blurred blue flowers. Warm golden bokeh circles from the backlit sun create a dreamy, glowing background that contrasts with the cool violet-blue of the bell-shaped blooms. Rain drops are visible on the lower stems.

1/5 Bluebells

Time for my annual joke that you need to present bluebell snaps to renew your UK photography license.

Taken in Wanstead Park with the Panasonic DMC-L1 and the Olympus 35-100mm f2 zoom last week.
#photography #bluebells #flowerphotography #macromonday #macro

A wetland pond in early spring, with clusters of bright yellow marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) flowering in the foreground among reeds and rushes. The still water reflects a stand of bulrushes (Typha sp.) rising from the centre of the pond. The background shows a treeline of mixed deciduous trees, some beginning to come into leaf, others still bare. A wooden fence is partially visible on the left. The sky is overcast and grey.

Here's a snap from a recent walk along the Yeading Brook in W London. It's a vertorama as I didn't have a wide enough lens with me.

Taken with the vintage #fourthirds #PanasonicDMC_L1 (Leica Digilux3) and the Olympus 14-35mm F2 zoom.

#photography #landscape #scape #landscapephotography

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A dramatic coastal scene at low tide, featuring an ancient stone pier or causeway stretching into a shallow, seaweed-covered bay. The structure is built from dark, flat-laid stones and blanketed in golden-brown kelp and bladder wrack. Still water reflects the moody sky, which is heavy with dark storm clouds broken by pale light near the horizon. In the distance, green hills and mountains rise on either side of the bay, with small islands visible mid-water. The foreground shows a weathered stone quay with yellow lichen patches, giving the image a rugged, timeless atmosphere

Throwback Saturday

Looking for a snap with an #edge theme for today's #BlueSkyArtShow I thought of this shot from the west coast of Ireland from 2019. Taken in the #Westport area on the edge of Europe.

#photography #landscape #Ireland #scape

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A breathtaking upward view of the ornate vaulted ceiling of a Gothic cathedral, featuring a dramatic star-shaped central lantern tower with radiating stone ribs fanning outward in all directions. The ceiling is richly decorated in deep greens and golds with intricate painted patterns. Surrounding the central octagonal lantern are multiple bays filled with vibrant stained glass windows in blues, reds, and greens. Stone carved figures and decorative sculptures line the walls and arches. At the bottom centre, a gilded mosaic or painted apse depicts a religious scene with Christ in Majesty surrounded by figures. The overall perspective creates a dizzying, kaleidoscopic symmetry. This appears to be Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England — specifically its famous 14th-century Octagon and Lantern Tower, considered one of the great engineering feats of medieval architecture.

5/5 Ely Cathedral

#LookingUp in #ElyCathedral at the octagonal Lantern.

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#photography #churchphotography #architecturephotography

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This is a dramatic panoramic interior shot of a grand Gothic cathedral, taken with an extreme wide-angle lens that creates a striking barrel distortion effect. The view looks down the nave toward the chancel/altar, with the ceiling dramatically bowing outward on both sides due to the panoramic view distortion. The central focus is a richly decorated ceiling panel running the length of the nave, painted in deep golds, greens, and reds with elaborate figural scenes — likely medieval or Victorian-era painted panels depicting biblical narratives. Flanking the nave are massive Norman Romanesque rounded arches in cool grey stone, stacked in tiers, creating a rhythmic, almost hypnotic repetition that curves away on either side. Stained glass windows are visible on the right. Rows of simple wooden chairs fill the nave floor, and ornate mosaic floor medallions are visible at the bottom. The overall effect is almost kaleidoscopic — the architecture feels like it's folding in on itself, giving the image a surreal, tunnel-like quality despite being a straight shot down the nave.

4/5 Ely Cathedral

A handheld #vertorama of #ElyCathedral with the Romanesque arches and Victorian painted ceiling.

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Interior of a Gothic cathedral, looking along a side aisle or chapel. Tall, richly coloured stained glass windows — depicting biblical scenes and figures in reds, blues, greens and golds — dominate the right-hand wall, their light casting vivid pools of amber, red and yellow onto the ancient worn stone floor slabs, many of which appear to be medieval grave markers. To the left, Gothic pointed arches recede into shadow, and a recumbent stone effigy (likely a tomb monument) is visible against the far wall. The overall atmosphere is one of age, reverence, and dramatic, jewel-like light.

3/5 Ely Cathedral

The sun shines through the stained glass to illuminate the floor in #ElyCathedral last week.

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Interior of a grand Gothic cathedral nave, reflected symmetrically along a horizontal axis to create a mirror image. The upper half shows the real view looking down the nave toward the altar: tall Norman and Gothic stone arches line both sides, with slender clustered columns rising to a richly painted wooden ceiling decorated with colourful biblical scenes, medallions, and heraldic motifs in red, gold, green, and blue. A delicate Gothic choir screen stands in the middle distance, with stained glass windows glowing beyond it. The lower half is a perfect mirror reflectiongiving the impression of a still water surface running across the centre of the frame. The symmetry emphasises the cathedral's extraordinary length, height, and architectural rhythm.

2/5 Ely Cathedral 1

#ElyCathedral helpfully provide a mirror to help view the ceiling, but it works well for snaps too. Norman #romanesque arches and a Victorian painted ceiling.

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A richly decorated octagonal ceiling of a cathedral, photographed looking up. A stunning fan-vaulted dome radiates outward from a central circular medallion depicting a haloed Christ figure surrounded by angels, with ribs of gold, cream, and green fanning out symmetrically to the eight sides. Between the ribs, painted panels in deep teal and red are adorned with angels and gold stars. Below the dome, a ring of tall stained glass windows in blue and jewel tones alternates with painted wall panels showing robed figures. The surrounding flat ceiling sections are covered in warm golden-ochre patterns of foliage and flowers with gilded borders, creating an extraordinarily ornate and colourful interior.

1/5 Ely Cathedral 1

Last week I had a short break in E Anglia starting with a visit to #ElyCathedral - best known for the octagonal lantern built in the 14th century after the original roof fell down.

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A view across the River Thames looking north toward the City of London, with the Millennium Bridge stretching across the foreground and St Paul's Cathedral dominating the skyline under a dramatic cloudy blue sky. A mix of brick and modern buildings lines the north bank, with construction cranes and the glass towers of the City visible in the background.

I've been experimenting with the hand-held high resolution feature on my #OMSystemsOM1 - obviously extra pixels are wasted on social media but its fans say it has other benefits.

Here's a shot from Tate Modern looking towards St Pauls.

#hhhr #Photography #London #cityscape #scape #stunday

A close-up macro photograph of a fern fiddlehead — a tightly coiled new frond unfurling. The spiral crozier is covered in fine brown hairs and contains clusters of tiny, not-yet-opened leaflets nested within the curl. Surrounding it are bright green, already-opened fern fronds with their characteristic feathery, serrated leaflets, set against a softly blurred grey-green background.

Looking for a snap with #new theme for today's #BlueSkyArtShow I came up with this new #fern from #Tasmania in 2023 - probably a lot of #Fibonacci going on here.

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A near black-and-white mulitple-exposure photograph looking upward between urban buildings, featuring a zigzagging exterior fire escape staircase layered over a glass-and-steel facade, creating an abstract, geometric composition of repeating lines, angles, and architectural forms against a pale sky.

A bonus #multipleExposure for #stunday.

Shot near Liverpool Street station and layered in Photoshop.

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A black and white photograph taken inside a Gothic cathedral, looking through an ornate wrought-iron gate standing open within a pointed stone archway. Light filters through the gate's latticed metalwork, casting a striking dappled shadow pattern across the worn stone floor in the foreground. Beyond the threshold, steps lead up to the interior, where a figure in dark clothing is caught mid-movement, and another person is seated in the background. A stained glass window is visible in the distance, and a memorial plaque — bearing the name John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury — is mounted on the stone wall to the right.

Throwback Saturday

Looking for a snap with an #openings theme for today's #BlueSkyArtShow, I came across this 2017 pic from #CanterburyCathedral.

Taken with #OlympusEM1 and a PanasonicLeica 12-60mm f2.8 - 4.

#photography #churchphotography #architecturephotography #classicmono #blackandwhite

A layered multiple-exposure photograph of an urban street scene, created by blending several shots of the same location taken from slightly different angles or focal lengths. The result is a dreamlike, semi-abstract cityscape where architectural elements — shopfronts, scaffolding, glass-and-steel buildings, and a street sign reading "Bonhill Street EC2" — overlap and ghost through one another. The palette mixes warm terracotta and red building facades with cool blue glass reflections. The street recedes into the middle distance, with pedestrians and street furniture barely legible beneath the layers. The overall effect is somewhere between documentary photography and painterly abstraction.

5/5 #multipleExposure

To finish this set here's the most abstract image - lots of snaps taken at different zoom levels and at slightly different viewpoints to produce a faux-#cubist view of London.

#photography #streetphotography #scape #cityscape #urbanphotography

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A motion-blurred urban scene showing modern glass-and-steel office buildings, their reflective facades streaked horizontally by camera movement. Bare winter trees are visible on the right. In the foreground, a vivid blue hoarding or construction barrier decorated with colourful graffiti runs along the bottom of the frame. The overcast sky and cool blue-grey tones give the image a cold, dreary atmosphere, while the intentional blur creates an abstract, almost painterly quality.

4/5 #multipleExposure

Two intentional camera movement images layered in Photoshop of a rather ordinary office block in London. I like the painterly result.

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A woman in an olive green trench coat and jeans walks away from the camera into a corridor, her figure repeated across the frame through multiple exposures layered over one another. The overlapping images create a ghostly, translucent effect, blending the architectural interior — tiled floors, a dropped ceiling, glass walls — with glimpses of an outdoor street scene. On the right, a partially visible sign reads "Enter a new world of fashion, dining and wellness — Broadgate Centre."

3/5 #multipleExposure

Kind of a science fiction vibe to this - through the portal near Liverpool Street Station in London.

Lots of shots layered in Photoshop.

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Thanks. Kind of a book cover vibe.

John Wesley memorial monument in a churchyard, with a ghosted multi-exposure effect layering the stone obelisk tomb against a modern glass-and-steel building facade. Bare winter trees and ornamental ironwork are visible in the semi-transparent overlapping frames, creating a dreamlike collision of 18th-century history and contemporary architecture. The inscription reads "John Wesley, 1703–1791" — this is his tomb at Wesley's Chapel on City Road, London.

2/5 #multipleExposure

Multiple snaps of the John Wesley memorial/tomb- the founder of Methodism - layered #PepVentosa style in Photoshop.

Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London

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A lone figure with a backpack and shoulder bag rides an escalator upward at Liverpool Street Station, London. The image uses a multiple exposure technique, creating ghostly motion blur of other commuters moving through the space, while the central figure remains relatively sharp. The escalator's illuminated yellow edges form strong leading lines converging toward a bright, hazy concourse above, where digital advertising screens and a Nando's sign are visible. The overall effect is atmospheric and slightly surreal, evoking the transient, anonymous nature of commuter life.

1/5 multiple exposures

This week a set of #multipleexposure images captured around Liverpool Street in London. Multiple images layered in Photoshop with some movement between images.

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A rusting ornate cast-iron balcony railing on a historic building, photographed from below against a vivid blue sky. The ironwork features decorative scrollwork and spindles, heavily weathered with peeling paint revealing rust beneath. The curved balcony edge and supporting column show significant decay, with moss and lichen adding to the sense of long abandonment.

The rusty balcony of Beckenham Place in S London for a #texture fix.

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