Blog 223

Patterns, Textures and Shapes, Kedleston Hall, Sunday 25th March 2012.

Blog 222

Reed Mace seed heads in the grounds of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. Photographs taken Sunday 25th March 2012.

Blog 221

Photograph taken on Sunday 25th March, 2012. The Adam fishing house in the grounds of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire.

Blog 200

These autumnal photographs were taken at Carsington Reservoir on Wednesday 23rd November 2011.

Blog 198

Photographs taken in Bakewell, Derbyshire on Saturday 19th November 2011.

Swooping Through

Ancient and Modern

Piano Like

Vibrant Colours

Blog 197

Lumsdale Waterfalls, near Matlock, Derbyshire, photographs taken 17th November 2011 at about 08:30.

How does that leaf hang in there on a near vertical rock face.

Blog 196

Lumsdale near Matlock, Derbyshire. The mill pond above the waterfalls. Photograph taken on 17th November 2011 at 09:05. The choice is mono or colour.

Blog 189

Fireworks at the Sandiacre Scouts' bonfire party, Saturday 5th November 2011.

Blog 151

These are a few photographs from a visit to Elvaston Parish Church on Wednesday evening 4th May 2011, with members of Aston on Trent Local History Group.

Dramitically lit organ loft

Musket ball holes in the north wall of the church. Fired by Cromwell's parliamentarians

Carved fronts in the choir stalls

Carved lid of an oak chest

Paneling at the front of the pulpit

Harrington crest on the entrance to a under floor vault

Jane Lady Crawford's vault in the nave

Linenfold carved cupboards in the vestry

On the south side of the chancel is a beautifully-executed recumbent figure, by Westmacott, of Algernon Russell Gayleard Stanhope, who died in 1847, aged nine years.