It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a blog, mainly due to my son’s wedding and my summer holidays taking up all of my time. There will be a big update on my holiday photography, separately, but that will be in a few weeks when I’ve completed the work that I’ve got to do to bring together the images etc.
This weekend I decided a walk was required, but given that I have been suffering from a cold and general snottiness, I didn’t want the walk o be too strenuous. I’m lucky in that I live in Cheshire (just) nd not too far from the Cheshire plain. So off I went to Goostrey, which is a lovely village but also quite near to Jodrell Bank.
These images are the best of the images I took on my walk, all with my Fuji XT-5, with the 23mm f2.0 lens, this is a very compact setup and great when walking around.
Given the size of the Lovell Telescope, it’s hard to not see it from a variety of locations as you walk around this part of Cheshire. It does tend to dominate the landscape, but can be hard to capture within a wider scene. This image caught me eye as I walked around the lanes near Jodrell Bank. The framing of the telescope by the trees does work I think and the addition of a small vignette adds to the effect.
When walking and for that matter driving around this area, you have to keep your eyes and ears open for cars as well as farm vehicles. I saw the STOP sign on the road after I’d first spotted the top of the telescope over the hedge. To me the stop sign in the foreground works to tell the story that this area is for driving as well as walking. I works I think.
I was looking for a good gate to add to an image of the telescope and there are plenty of them as you walk around. Most of them where far to wide to get a meaningful image of the telescope as well as the gate. The scene above caught my eye, as the intersection of the gate and the fence “point” at the telescope. The downside of this of course is the tree the partially obscures the telescope. I like this image, its not a portfolio image but good nonetheless.
As I walked around the footpaths identified on the OS map app, it took me through some pretty ordinary parts of this area, but one of the paths went around the edges of a small forest that skirted a farm. The image above is a fairly simple framing of the farm buildings by the intersection of the main branches of this tree. Again not portfolio worthy but I like it all the same.