Sutton Gault after last weekend’s downpour. The Old Bedford River and New Bedford River (aka the Hundred Foot Drain built by Cornelius Vermuyden) pass through the townland and flood into the land between them after heavy rain.
Category Archives: Photography
What the well-dressed bottle is wearing these days
Michael’s birthday present. Flickr version here.
The holy well
Flickr version here.
This academic life…
Broad Street, Oxford, on Wednesday. Flickr version here.
Apré le deluge
Passage to… where?
Jesus College, Cambridge. Flickr version here.
Through a glass plate, sharply
Astonishing, recently-discovered, glass plates from the First World War. Terrific image quality too — see this Flickr version, for example.
This marvellous hoard released on a CC licence by this Flickr user.
The (financial) origin of the Origin of Species?
Josiah Wedgwood’s house in Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent, and the family home of Emma Wedgwood, Charles Darwin’s wife. I’ve often wondered if the financial security which enabled Darwin to work in such productive seclusion came from Emma’s dowry.
Vanishing point
Flickr version here.
Vertigo
Flickr version here.
