Pics!

[fightingthecage]

Also, have a picspam.



Tintern Abbey is gorgeous. Unfortunately I was there at the end of the summer hols so there were loads of people around. Also, the weather was distressingly nice - the first time I ever saw these ruins, it was on a cold winter day and there was mist along the whole valley. It wound through the place and over the trees and river and everything looked magic and eerie. But I didn't have my camera with me, alas. So these are just...photos. They dont do the place justice at all. But I will get better ones sometime as this is only about 20 minutes from where my mother lives.

...I am a massive geek for ruins, btw. I don't know if I've ever mentioned that before.

From the car park



From closer, on one side



Nearer the front



And again



Looking down the nave



And grayscaled, 'cos its nice



And a random one of just up the river from the abbey. All the trees? Part of the Forest of Dean although this is technically in Wales. So you can see the sort of terrain Harry and Ron and Hermione were hiding in in Hallows. *is geek* The river is the Wye, btw, and I took this photo because I also love bridges with old stone arches.



This one is all pasted together and not very well, I might add. Because I do not have a 'panoramic' option on my camera and I forgot, after taking the first one, that I was supposed to line up the individual pics properly if I wanted to produce an idea of what the entire view looks like. So this is dodgy but conveys the general gorgeousness I think - this is taken from the Forest of Dean, in July, looking out over the valley towards Gloucester and the River Severn.

...just fyi, my scanner scanned in all different sizes for no apparent reason which is why the sky looks odd as well. I did a hasty C&P job.



And two from London, from when I was there just before last Christmas. I couldn't decide if I liked the Eye better in colour or black and white, so have both.

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Oh, WOW.

Tintern Abbey looks JUST like the painting they had printed in my lit book when I read that poem. That's fabulous. Eeeee.

We can has pix of you? :-*

(I have to say I like your colored ferris wheel pic better than the black and white one -- the blue and goldy-yellow just look so pretty together...)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

It really is a gorgeous place. The drive down to it was voted the most beautiful in England quite recently, IIRC. Its right on the river, in a valley and there are steep hills either side completely covered in trees. And the ruins themselves are just so graceful. Very tall and slim and pretty. I couldn't get a few of the pics I wanted because they're doing some restoration work on it and there was scaffolding about. But yeah, the first time I saw it all shrouded in mist, it was just magic.

No pics of me! Heh heh! I stay behind the camera for a reason. But...there will probably be one or two once Scribble turns up. Maybe.

....and you may be right on the colour version of the Eye. The colour contrasts nicely but I think I like the clouds better on the B&W. Eh.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Maybe I go live there. Ruins = pretty. ;D

*pokes ur babeh* :O!!! *runaway!* ^^

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

The whole area = pretty! Shame about the people, ugh. But I have the feeling its exactly the sort of place you'd love.

Babeh: *flails* ...*takes shock out on mother*

Me: D:!

[wakeupnew]

Wow. Those photos are gorgeous, and I mean the photos themselves as well as what they're of (also gorgeous). Mind if I ask what kind of camera you use? I'm tentatively looking to upgrade mine.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm very happy with it. It's a...*goes to look* Nikon F65. But its not digital because I am le old fashioned and am in love with film and actual physical photographs. And this one is ace because its not too complicated but still comes with different types/strength/size of lenses.

I should also add that the extreme levels of green in these pics is because of my scanner, not the camera. The actual photos are nicer, I think, because the grass isn't quite as luminous as it appears here.

[xandra73.livejournal.com]

The photos are so beautiful! *stares*

I couldn't decide if I liked the Eye better in colour or black and white, so have both.

I would go with the colour one, the colours are absolutely amazing.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Glad you like them *beams*

Yeah, I guess the sun does add something to that one. It was sort of reflecting onto the area which is why it was all golden and nice.