A Walk Around Britain » Photographs

Assorted Winter Portraits

Branching Arts — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:52:41 +0000

This is a photographic exhibition. It contains no narrative, so please enjoy these simple images, of us and friends, taken during our winter stay in cold old Radnorshire.

suzi comes to visit

Ozzy Ben the maker of machines

raggler on lookout

Ayla's sister Elly

cookery

dome mornings

cycled return from the busky yonder

eat zone

rosie pose

ayla's arm moustache

staying dry

les amoureurs

pupstart and pals

Ay-rag finds the sea-beet

pebble rain into hand

ayla and her wet papa

rose helps ed hand hole

hole made by sharp ax

the lads and their fads

face in cloud smiles

long drop

teddy bears picnic

sweet ayla all agrin

christmas morn song

not quite bitey

comfy will

and up

frog in the snow, where do you go?

Eddie de Mellowcroft

rockstar cart-horse

chook foot

2 birds in the hand

our friend Charly, well wrapped up

a flock of morris travellers

hometime

For more photographs…..

Branching Arts — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:59:49 +0000

visit our flickr page where you will find most of the photos contained on this website in one big bundle.

Snow Pictures

Branching Arts — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:17:25 +0000

Here are some pictures from the last month of frostiness, in no particular order. Click on the images to make them bigger. To read about how it was for us out in the snow, click HERE.

our house has teeth...

o the holy holy, o the holly tree

25th morn song

cold times

Click below for more frosted photographics…

home in the snow

the grasses become saws

something icy

brighter light of underfoot reflection

note the thermal efficiency...

it's very beautiful here

when water stands still

Luna She rise

boyseys by housey house

our neighbouring giants

Come fly with me...

the girls throw snow

puffed up like the Robin, we're well wrapped

the table of things found

who's the big man?

glumptious snow bobbles

great skiing country

some leaves just won't fall...

the woven sky

sun falls past Llandegly

wood gathering gets trickier

Croeso, Welcome

Clare, Emma, Ellie and Susi, with Ayla's birthday mango brekky

colour thickens...

where we live

Susie and the Great Woodland Tumble

Branching Arts — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:01:54 +0000

Being a short photographic exposition of how the combination of a heavy bag, fidgety exuberance, and gravity, might altogether cause a young girl to tumble in the woods.

So there was Susie, all pretty and happy on her oaken knoll. Beside her sat Ayla, calm and delicate in her knolly balance. Peace reigned gently in the Awbridge Woodlands.

And then along came Edward, who delighted the ladies by burying his face in the mossy lump.

But o – such woody thrills caused an imbalance in young Susie, who fell victim to her backpack’s sure groundward destiny.

And down, with the bag, was she drawn.

First she knocked off Ed’s hat, while he was still moss-sniffing. He started up angry at such disturbance…but soon saw the comedy.

The bluebells delicately chortled, and the wood-spurge tittered; giggles aplenty were heard through the woods, that afternoon, when Susie from the tump did fall.

Sundry Photographs

Branching Arts — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:28:21 +0000

Ed and Ginger get fruitful

The Cathedral on our left, at the start of this journey

A quick pub song, Ashdown Forest

The power of signs - Chilham, Kent

A bird in the bush is worth thousands on the forklift

vagabonds at large

A dramatic stick, Kings Wood nr Canterbury

Shady fellows, Temple of the Winds

Hedging for our supper in Hampshire

Geometric bubbles in a woodland stream

Sleepy oak, nr Faversham

you can almost smell them - wild garlic in bloom

Bivi-ing in the garlic. An un-vampiric night's kip.

A sign of the times - but what about illiterate robbers?

Sleeping in the park, a frosty morning wake-up

The troll beneath the bridge...

We like this

Ceci n'est pas un wild flower

Tea in the morning, Horsham

It is true, he is smooth as velvet

a helping fraternal hand...

Ed and Will being statuesque

Our best TV

Ed and Ginger, same family, different centuries...

Will wants it...

Ed pooh-poohs another suggestion

And that’s all folks…

Pictures of Us – Canterbury to Tunbridge Wells

Branching Arts — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:53:44 +0000

Xinging in Faversham Town

Ginger at Little Chart

Ed before Little Chart

3 of us near Faversham

Pictures of us

Branching Arts — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:49:38 +0000

A Giant Flower

Branching Arts — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:16:59 +0000

We have just aquired a new camera that can take good plant pictures, so we shall soon be able to document plants and trees through all the seasons to help with identification.

Until the first lot of plant pictures come, here is an enormous flower built by ed for Sunrise Celebration.

Hop picking

Branching Arts — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:43:44 +0000

We grew up in Kent, the home of hops. For the past twenty or so years the Kentish hop season has become shorter and shorter, as imported hops from Germany and America prove more cost efficient for British beer.
Hop farms have closed all over the place, and some have managed to hold on. For those that remain, things are looking better. On the farm we worked on for a few harvests, they are replanting the fields that 4 years ago they grubbed. This is no cheap undertaking, so times must be good.
On the farm they still retain the tradition of workers coming down for a season from London. Some of them have grandparents that also worked there.
This is a picture section…..so here is one of ginger and some other hop picking crew.

Some West Country Landscapes

Branching Arts — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:38:18 +0000