Images of the arty kind

[Rogan]

The Dragon's back - an arty picture taken in the Drakensberg:

[fermi de Sousa]

The Dragon's back - an arty picture taken in the Drakensberg:

It could've been modelled on a Stegosaurus!
Here's the heart of a prickly customer,


A puya from Sth America.
cheers
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[ranunculus]

Lovely images everybody ... keep them coming please!

[Ragged Robin]

Absolutely, this thread really see things in a different way - I love this arty view of plants and Nature 

[ranunculus]

Images captured at about 7.20pm this evening on the moors less than 150 metres from our front door ...

Red sky to the front of me, purple to the rear ... colours enhanced by flash and camera settings.

[Ragged Robin]

Cliff, you are lucky to have such fantastic sunsets just outside your door - I particularly like no 3 perspective with the rough grass in the foreground and the overlapping of the slopes with the pylon leading on to the fading sunset colours - terrific atmos 

[vanozzi]

Beautiful fiery sunsets Cliff.

Paddy, Beth Chatto is one of my favourite authors!! I love her style of writting, she takes you right into the soul of her garden.

I like the closeup pictures of single blooms, in this case an abutilon, not sure which one.

[ranunculus]

I can't remember seeing so many fiery skies in this part of the world ... three images taken this evening ... once again the colours are enhanced by flash, but not to a great extent.

[Paddy Tobin]

Cliff,

You are certainly painting the sky red these nights. Here is one from Tuesday evening, not as fiery as yours but a nice evening sun. Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Paddy, such lovely light from the setting sun in your beautiful photo picking out the detail of the bridge and the rolls of straw(?)  Is the crane there for workers on the bridge?  It almost looks like boat rigging 

[Paddy Tobin]

Hi Robin,

This bridge is still under construction, hence the crane. On Tuesday last I was, thanks to the foreman on the site, put in a metal box and lifted by that crane up above the top of the bridge, spun around to get views of all sides and then let down again. A great experience. The photograph above was taken from my neighbour's land. I live on the other side of the bridge - photograph below of garden taken from the crane. The neighbours are away on holidays and I go over to keep an eye on the place, feed and walk the dogs etc. The light in the evening has been good in recent evenings.

I took over 200 photographs when up on the crane but I will spare you! Just one to show you the bridge from my garden - a reverse view of of the view from the top of the bridge.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

My goodness me, Paddy, what an exciting opportunity to get your very own aerial photos 
A very interesting expereinece, I would think, to have that chance to view your place from that perspective...... did it make you think differently about any particular part of your garden to see it from up there?

[ranunculus]

Wow, Paddy ... what a magnificent setting and garden ... and your very own 'football' pitch!

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

The trees to the far side of the garden have grown well - I would like a similar result on the near side. Some of those large trees were growing there before I arrived, chestnut, ash and hornbeam but I planted some, the pines which are now as high as the chestnut and ash.

Also, there is a bit of space in the top right area which I think should have another large bed but Mary prefers to keep the garden more open and so curtails my tree-planting inclinations. An inclination to tree planting is, I am assured, a sure sign of an understanding that life is passing and that there is a need to place something of permanence in the ground. In short, a sure sign that I am getting old.

Cliff, for some reason, which I don't understand, Mary insists on leaving the goalpost in position even though the two oldest boys are long left home and the youngest prefers piano and guitar to football. I may insist that rust has gotten the better of it someday and remove it.

The photograph below shows the garden in relation to the river and the town in the distance. The bridge across the river is a disused railway bridge, locally called "The Red Iron Bridge".

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Paddy, what fantastic aerial shots of your garden from the crane!  Aerial photographs give such a different view of landscaping and I have to say your 'spot' looks idyllic surrounded by fields and countryside - I imagine you must have some great walks in the region.....Your shrub border by the house looks nicely mature and I wonder what the shrubs are?  At the father most tip is that a parterre with hornbeams?  Thanks for posting this view...you have some lovely plantings and I bet in Autumn the colours are superb