The Winding Paths of the Googleplex
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 342 The path outside 1500 Crittenden Ave, Mountain View, CA, where UDS Jaunty was held.
A snow-capped land
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 340 The Lake District (which bits thereof I’m not sure) taken from the window of Virgin Atlantic flight VS019 on its way to San Francisco.
Wasteland
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 199 At the foot of Heysham cliffs. This just seemed to work better in black and white.
Brave new world
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 195 View On Black I bought a new camera today: a Nikon D300. Incidentally, I love it. Taken on the bluffs at Heysham Head with the Sigma 10-20mm.
What whispers did these walls one hear?
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 186 The remains of one of the walls of the great church at St Benet’s Abbey, on the banks of the River Bure. St Benet’s was alone in not being dissolved by Henry VIII. Instead, it was made part of the bishopric [...]
All that remains
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 185 The ruins of St Benet’s Abbey on the banks of the River Bure. This is an amazing set of ruins. Not only are parts of the abbey still there, but there’s also the remains of a wind pump that was built [...]
The way home
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 184 The path leading to South Walsham. Another case of I-should-have-followed-the-rule-of-thirds. Still, I like how this came out. Taken through a yellow filter to bring out the sky and lighten the corn. Just wish I could’ve got rid of the buildings…
Permissive
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 183 On banks of the river Bure. This would have worked better had I adhered to the rule of thirds and not had the horizon smack in the centre of the picture. This image, unless I’m mistaken, represents the halfway point of [...]
Where summer doesn’t touch
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 175 I was kind of amazed that these trees still don’t have leaves on them. I’ve no idea why, though.
Ideal view
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 162 When I grow old and retire I want to have a view like this in the evening. Of course, I could do with out all the other stuff that comes with such a view, viz, erosion, wind damage, flooding and a [...]
Travel
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 148 Taken from a level crossing near Silverdale. I did a black and white version of this but it just didn’t work as well as I would’ve liked. For some reason I like the slightly uncomfortable feeling that the colouring on this [...]
Let battle (re)commence. After tea, of course
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 145 New Zealand take the field against England under leaden skies after Tea on day 3 of the second test at Old Trafford.
A string of man-made pearls
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 138 Left behind by man and the tide, lying on a seaweed-filled beach. The perfect focal point for a photograph of the bay in the morning.
Signage
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 134 I have no idea who Jenny Brown was or why she has a point named after her. Mostly I just liked the light. Oh, and on an unrelated note, I’m finally up-to-date with these posts! Let joy be unconfined.
Babble
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 133 There’s not enough words to describe how beautiful I find the Yorkshire Dales (okay, I’m a Lancashire man, so that’s almost treason, but we’ll gloss over that). They’re so desolate and yet full of life, scruffy and yet elegant. Just when [...]
Mostly unspoiled
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 131 Taken from Ribblehead station. I wanted to get this shot a couple of days ago, when I took this one, but the clouds were too uniform to be interesting. I came back for the sake of getting this shot, in the [...]
Flowers in the sunlight
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 127 A white Rhodonedron growing in the grounds of a house in Caton (luckily for your photographer, right next to the road).
Playing with texture
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 125 The footpath that runs from Harvey Street, Oswaldtwistle, down to the Foxhill Bank Nature reserve. I was actually just playing about with different exposure settings here, but this one came out quite nicely, if a little dark. I haven’t had to [...]
A lone traveller
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty odd days of 2008, day 114 A solitary lamb wanders away from the camera on Roeburn Road, near Littledale. Actually, he’s not alone. His mum is just the the right of him, hidden in the long grass. Just after I took this shot she herded him [...]
Many monuments to man
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 113 The view out over the bay from the moors above Caton and Littledale. In the near distance, the salt-cruet shape of Ashton Memorial. Behind that, the twinned bulk of Heysham nuclear power station and, in the far, far distance (and not [...]
A long, slow collapse
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 112 A collapsing cottage on the road between Ingleton and Hawes. I would have liked to get closer to this so that I could have worked with some more extreme angles. Unfortunately a large, barbed-wire fence was in the way and I [...]
Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 111 This is Tinker Brook as it runs through Foxhill Bank nature reserve in Oswaldtwistle. Once an area of hard concrete lodges, this is now just about the closest most Ossy people will get to nature without heading out of town and [...]
For this, they built a viaduct
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 110 The stream that runs under the Ribblehead Viaduct, a 24-arch span that crosses the Ribble Valley in North Yorkshire. This might actually be the Ribble itself, or it may be but a tributary, I don’t know. It’s a wonderfully calm and [...]
Post-industral countryside
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 109 Three East Lancashire towns: on the left, Blackburn, on the right, Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up, and Accrington. Taken from the Grain Road at Belthorn, possibly the most exposed an inhospitable place in the whole of East Lancs, except for today. [...]
