St Martin, Shotesham

I wanted to take my daughter out for a walk today, after running a few errands with her in the car though, she had other plans, and decided to fall asleep.

I didn't want to disturb her, as it was quite windy out, and I was sure it would soon wake her. So instead, I took a drive around home, and went to a spot I had biked passed many years ago. At that point, the ruins of St Martin church, just outside the main village of Shotesham, was undiscoverable, mainly due to the fact it was covered in foliage.

As described on the billboard next to it, it had been cleaned up in 2012, revealing the beautiful remains. With Ava still asleep, I snuck out the car to take a few photographs. My battery ran out on my last shot (what an amateur!) so I need to go back someday, especially in different weather conditions, my creative brain was going crazy!

But here are a few I took today, and in case anyone wonders how I got the long exposures, these were taken with a tiffen 10 stop filter. Something I've not had a play with for a long while, so was good to give it another go.

Shotesham

We took our daughter out for a walk at the weekend over at Shotesham. A wonderful little village, which has the Boudica Way as part of its footpaths.

A very photographic little place, with every house as unique and as beautiful as the next. It was a good chance to test out my newest purchase - the Panasonic GX7 with it's 20mm 1.7 lens. With Ava strapped to my front, it was easy enough to get focus on composing shots. I think this one here was my favourite. Mainly because we're always encouraged to break 'the rules' of photography; whereas this image follows those rules, and gave me a really pleasing image.

I'm quite fond of the trees and path leading you, and the deeper you look, you then spot the church in the distance, which is in itself, being covered by the rolling mist.... I'm not being too boastful, am I?!... Maybe you have to sometimes when you're pleased with a shot.

Iceland Revisited

A couple of years ago, Heather and I stopped off in Iceland for a mini moon between our weddings here in England, and in the US.

At the time, I went through most of my photographs, but after going through my 'archive' I thought I would have a look at some I never touched. Here are just a few - mainly taken at Thingvellir, which shows off the Mid Atlantic ridge - it's incredible, all Geography school trips need to visit. This also makes me want to go back more than ever... especially before it gets saturated with TV crews filming the next big thing...: