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Just finished reading SIX FOUR by Hideo Yokoyama – a police procedural crime novel set in Japan. A slow burn masterpiece. Outstanding! I will unreservedly recommend this book to anyone. It is one of the best novels I have ever read – I place it in my Top 5.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797-98.
Coleridge lived in Nether Stowey and it was whilst here that he visited Watchet. It was the harbour at Watchet that provided the inspiration to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. His longest work.
The above statue commemorates Coleridge and his magnificent poem.
The poem can be found in its entirety here
At Watchet Harbour, West Somerset, UK. An old historical port, active since the 1500’s. It is famous for the inspiration of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written in 1797.
A bright sunny day, photographs taken with X100F as out of camera jpegs.
In the depths of Wiltshire, just off the A350 that carries on down to Poole, outside the little village of Longbridge Deverill is small, unassuming Farm Shop that hides a vineyard.
Lychgate roof at St Peter and St Paul church in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire.
Lychgates are roofs over gates, used fore sheltering coffins in the rain, awaiting the arrival of the clergyman.
One of the first photographs taken with my new Fujifilm X100F.
Walking through Foxholes on the way to The Bath Arms in Crockerton. It was early evening, cool, an occluded sky hung ominously and a forest of fern had grown up since I last blinked.
After days of rain, a beautiful day’s sunshine in the Wiltshire countryside. The wheat has ripened and the clouds filled a perfect blue sky.
An image of a rain-soaked sky bringing the green into focus.
Wiltshire, looking from the A350 toward Sutton Veny.
I took this photograph above, the other day. It weather was a dull. It was a snatched photograph. It was one of those photographs you have to do something with. Therein lies the dilemma.
I normally use Lightroom to ‘develop’ my photographs and rarely resort to filters but in this case I did.
The Direct Positive filter gave the image a bit of punch without over-saturating the image – it says Yellow Lines!
The Bleach Bypass filter says more about the day and less about the yellow lines.
I like both images for different reasons. What it comes down to is mood. Not just the mood of what I’m trying to say but how I’m feeling when I’m trying to say it. I feel filters should be a starting point but these cases I went with ‘as is’. However, I’ve been told there’s no substitute for getting right at the point of shooting 😉
I pass this vent as I walk home this way, every day from work. It’s only now, with the greenery has grown up around, that it has taken on a new significance. I took the photograph because it conjured up a Japanese feel to me.
I can travel far, without going anywhere and sate my wanderlust.