Today in pictures

[susie123]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Final day in Rome in the beautiful park of Villa Borghese. Great place for escaping the crowds and keeping cool. I think it is the most beautiful park I've ever been in. We hoped to get into the Gallery which houses 5 Bernini statues, paintings by Caravaggio, Domenichini and Rubens among others but it was prebooked for the following 10 days! So a good idea to pre-book your tickets in advance if you ever go there. The following link has loads of other photos - it really is a huge place and I didn't see half the things that are there I now realise -just means I'll have to go back again! Villa Borghese, Rome 242 Insider Tips, Photos and Reviews

Love the trees in shot 3 - almost look deliberately distorted!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Final day in Rome in the beautiful park of Villa Borghese. Great place for escaping the crowds and keeping cool. I think it is the most beautiful park I've ever been in. We hoped to get into the Gallery which houses 5 Bernini statues, paintings by Caravaggio, Domenichini and Rubens among others but it was prebooked for the following 10 days! So a good idea to pre-book your tickets in advance if you ever go there. The following link has loads of other photos - it really is a huge place and I didn't see half the things that are there I now realise -just means I'll have to go back again! Villa Borghese, Rome 242 Insider Tips, Photos and Reviews

Photo no 8 has a peace about it.

[Gremlin]

I went to visit my sister in Walsden this afternoon and took a few photographs around Todmorden.

1 Doghouse lane at the back of the park.
2 Looking down what was a lane into the park from Doghouse.
3 Canal just before it goes under Rochdale road.
4 The great wall of Todmorden, built to hold the railway embankment prior to 1841 and never been touched since.
5 The canal lock under Rochdale road. You can see the horse tunnel on the left.
6 The tunnel under the road where the horses had to go to get to the other side of the road bridge.
7 Other side of horse tunnel
8 Town Hall figures depicting Cotton for Lancashire on one side and Wool on the other for Yorkshire, the town was originally split into Lancashire and Yorkshire up to 1888 and the boundary ran through the town hall. It is all Yorkshire now, with a Lancashire post code and dialling code.
9 Unitarian Church clock.
10 Finally under the bridge to my sisters, taken through the windscreen.

I have another fifty in the camera but I have used my allocation up.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a walk through the park, rather than a long walk.

1. Not much colour in the rockery.
2. The bandstand.
3. Still in the rockery.
4. Its a bridge.
5. The pagoda shelter.
6. The top bowling green.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by davemac

Photo no 8 has a peace about it.

Thanks -I love to catch figures like that in silouhette.

[mobertol]

Change of tack -Dave got me thinking about figures and how I like to use them as a kind of silouhette in a particular setting so here's a selection. Some are more effective than others.
1 Contemplating the Lake, a lady resting here feet (Gargnano 2012)
2 Contemplating the Lake II,a young man reclining and taking in the view (Idem)
3 Under the arches, Bologna 2012
4 Andy measuring the waves in El Puertito, Tenerife 2012 (He's 6 ft tall!)
5 Fisherman coming up out of the sea, El Puertito, Tenerife 2012
6 Bringing in the catch, early evening on Lake Garda, Gargnano 2012
7 Sunset in Rivoltella, Lake Garda 2012
8 Sunworshipper -catching the last rays, Rivoltella, Lake Garda 2012
9 Waiting for the train, Termini Station, Rome, June 2013
10 Relaxing in the park, Villa Borghese, Rome, June 2013

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Change of tack -Dave got me thinking about figures and how I like to use them as a kind of silouhette in a particular setting so here's a selection. Some are more effective than others.
1 Contemplating the Lake, a lady resting here feet (Gargnano 2012)
2 Contemplating the Lake II,a young man reclining and taking in the view (Idem)
3 Under the arches, Bologna 2012
4 Andy measuring the waves in El Puertito, Tenerife 2012 (He's 6 ft tall!)
5 Fisherman coming up out of the sea, El Puertito, Tenerife 2012
6 Bringing in the catch, early evening on Lake Garda, Gargnano 2012
7 Sunset in Rivoltella, Lake Garda 2012
8 Sunworshipper -catching the last rays, Rivoltella, Lake Garda 2012
9 Waiting for the train, Termini Station, Rome, June 2013
10 Relaxing in the park, Villa Borghese, Rome, June 2013

number 8 is the one for me, you have to study it to get to grips with the shapes, although anything with wet bits is also a winner for me.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a mooch outside the borough.

1. Start point, around the park.
2. Its all green and trees.
3. A view over the bowling green to the blunt end of Ossy Moors.
4. Same view, but a bit further up.
5. More trees, and more Ossy Moor.
6. I've reserved a table.
7. Looking over the top of the museum, to yet again Ossy Moors.
8. There we have it, back to the start point, Whittaker Park, Rawtenstall.

[Mick]

just uploaded some photos from our trip to Brugge to the Gallery
Brugge2 - Accrington Photo Gallery

I did try to get them in order but the gallery software decided on a different approach sorry
and there are 2 pages of them

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by davemac

number 8 is the one for me, you have to study it to get to grips with the shapes, although anything with wet bits is also a winner for me.

Lol! It is a man lying on a sunlounger reading a book -it does look a bit like a grass-hopper though doesn't it!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Mick

just uploaded some photos from our trip to Brugge to the Gallery
Brugge2 - Accrington Photo Gallery

I did try to get them in order but the gallery software decided on a different approach sorry
and there are 2 pages of them

Some nice shots -very interesting architecture in Bruges -it's a place I've always wanted to visit, aren't there canals there too? Did you go over from Hull to Zeebrugge? I've been on that ferry in the past it's not a bad way to travel -very good breakfasts! Is the man with the beard Accyweb's "Less"?

[susie123]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Some nice shots -very interesting architecture in Bruges -it's a place I've always wanted to visit, aren't there canals there too? Did you go over from Hull to Zeebrugge? I've been on that ferry in the past it's not a bad way to travel -very good breakfasts! Is the man with the beard Accyweb's "Less"?

We've been there three or four times and stayed in some very quirky hotels.

Yes Bruges has canals - we went for a trip - very interesting seeing the backs of the buildings.

It also has some great bars, and good Belgian cuisine.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Some nice shots -very interesting architecture in Bruges -it's a place I've always wanted to visit, aren't there canals there too? Did you go over from Hull to Zeebrugge? I've been on that ferry in the past it's not a bad way to travel -very good breakfasts! Is the man with the beard Accyweb's "Less"?

yes,yes,and yes

[Mick]

Originally Posted by susie123

We've been there three or four times and stayed in some very quirky hotels.

Yes Bruges has canals - we went for a trip - very interesting seeing the backs of the buildings.

It also has some great bars, and good Belgian cuisine.

And great chocolate

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by susie123

I and good Belgian cuisine.

Frites & Horse (Sossy, Meatball, Gulashy stuff) from what I recall of time spent in Belgium, plus, lots & lots of strong Beers!