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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Nov 2021, 16:45

Part 5

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Fast Food

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The Cheap Seats

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Boy vs Ball

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Unimpressed

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Winter is Coming

And that's that for September. Took close to a thousand pictures in October and November because it was a stunning autumn all round. Lot of editing to do, but wil be back as soon as I can manage
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 15 Dec 2021, 23:13

October is my birth month, but that's not the only reason it's among my favourites. Summer and autmn (and occasionally winter!) co-exist in it, the light's at a good low angle all day long, there's plenty of colour, fruit everywhere... Anyways, October in Covid Year 2, Taunton.

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Welcome to the Show that Never Ends
it just keeps rolling along

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Go for the Froat!

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The Stink Inspectors

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One Terrier Under the Sun

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Paddling in the Brown Stuff

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We've Seen it All Before

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 15 Dec 2021, 23:16

Part Two

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No Pride

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Red Rush

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Faces Emerge, Part 17

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Bow Down Before My Might

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Outside Number 9
This row of cottages has tiny yards at the back so they have to create a garden on the walkway.

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Autumn Colour I
Blueberries

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Postby Rayge » 15 Dec 2021, 23:17

Part 3

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Autumn colours II
Schizostylus (top), marguerites, cosmos, coreopsis, cornflowers

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Bridge Over Untroubled Water
The Bridgewater and Taunton canal, to be precise

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Houseboats at Creech

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Round the Bend

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Turbulence on the Tone

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Postby Rayge » 15 Dec 2021, 23:18

Part 4
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Going

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Loop and Pin

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Meanwhile, Back in the Garden

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Japaneasy

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Epistemolgical Pancake

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Autumn Imminent

More from the garden and further afield very soon I hope.
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Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 18:54

Continuing in October, in Taunton (where else would I be?)...

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Fuchsias

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On the Bench
Me, not the dog

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Glade
Later in the year, this turned into a lake/swamp

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Pond Life

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Fleshed

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Pressed

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 18:56

Part Two
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True Colours

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Pondside

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Afternoon

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Defiance

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Bristling

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Feathered

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 18:57

Part 3

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Easy

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White Cosmos

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Shy

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Autumn is Here - Official

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Verbena

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Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 18:58

Part 4

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Down By the River
(right next to Morrisons Car Park, as it happens)

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The South Bank

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Locked

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Leaf Ladder

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The Ghosts of Modernism Past

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Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 18:59

Part 5

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Lifesavers

A return to Hestercombe Gardens just before my birthday (the 16th, should you wish to make a note in your diaries)
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Falling

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Nest

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Source

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Arrowhead

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Faces Emerge, #47 in an on-going Series

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 19:00

Part 6

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Framed

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Headless By the Pool

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Urn and Vine

Back to Taunton...
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King for a Bit...
With bad weather threatening we have the whole of Longrun Meadow to ourselves

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...Graciously Accepting Homage

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Inside Out
That one was taken on my birthday. Halfway through the month

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Postby Rayge » 24 Dec 2021, 19:02

Part 7
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Flight and 'Fern'

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Anemone and Ladybird

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Buds and Blushes

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Red, Green and Gold

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Return of the King

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Pink Perfection

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Balls

Merry Xmas, if you want it
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:53

Another flailing attempt at seeing off October before the year ends. Plenty of indoor shots, sparked in part by this being the month that I found a new source of inspiration (or inhalation, depending on your point of view) after more than six months of eking and abstinence.

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Pink Uns
Fancy gerbera bought at Hestercombe

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It Won't Throw Itself
Over the last eight years or so, Scrap has averaged finding a ball a week, often in the most unlikely places. He has a special talent for it. He then expects me to throw them for him to chase. Unfortunately for him, though, I just won't (various reasons including a recurring rotator cuff problem), and he usually ends up taking tennis balls off into the long grass, ripping the covers off, then chomping the innards to destruction. It isn't pretty, not at all. The only alternative is that I wrest it from him, and either bin the ruins, or, if it is more or less whole, pocket it, and head off home, where he is free to disembowel and otherwise enjoy his booty in the garden.

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Bombed Again
There was I taking a telephoto shot of the delightfully sinuous curve of that wall in Private Road when H imself decided that what the composition really need was more dog's arse. I know I could have edited him out, and in fact I did, bringing in the left edge to the far gate post, taking out the car and balancing up the composition, and, you know what? - The little fucker was right.

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Fireplace

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Gotham Moon

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Here Be Dragons

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:54

Part Two

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Rwanda Sunset

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Breakfast of Champions

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One White Hair

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Wow Man the Colours I

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It Was

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Bowl O'Clock

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:55

Part Three
Out of the House
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Avian Clown Shoes

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On the Turn

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Open House

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Comfy

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Accidental Beauty

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Civic Pride

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:56

Part 4

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Spate

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Maple Leaf Rug

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Proudly Purple

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Midnight on Saturn

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Burst Banks
Rarely use the panorama function on my camera as the results do not fit easily on line and that starburst effect is a little off-putting.
Anyways, remember that picture of the dog with the ball? the waters are lapping at the spot he was standing...

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Adventitious Pond
...and this swamp was formerly my favourite forest clearing for the purpose of downing a few bowls in the presence of nature

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:57

Part 5

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Deserted
French Weir Park after half-term was over

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Backlit
Got a bit obsessed with this branch dangling towards the Tone. Expect more of that

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Riverside
Dog bless the civic visionary responsible for planting all those field maples along the north bank here. There are plenty in the parks, too - the town is full of them

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Wow Man the Colours II

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Snookered

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Tabletop

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 29 Dec 2021, 19:59

Part 6
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Cool Dog, Bro'

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Pop

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The Maples Again
From the other side of the river

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Wow Man the Colours III

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Awashday

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No Breadcrumbs Today

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Last

That's that for October. You will be thrilled to hear, I'm sure, that a combination of mild weather and little in the way of wind meant that the autumn colour lasted through November, but it will be be next year before we get to that.
And I wish everyone a happier year in 2022.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 20 Jan 2022, 18:09

Last November had its wetnesses, but the best thing about it was that the temperatures kept up and there were no serious winds, so the leaves stayed on the trees well into the month, and beyond at times, and there was stil a fair amount of colour in the garden.

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Limey

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Unstill Life

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Jump

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Light Reeding

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Waiting for Instructions

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Hanging

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 20 Jan 2022, 18:12

Part Two

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I'm a Sumac

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Maple Walk

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Lacks Haywain

Meanwhile, in the garden
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Schizostylus

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Viburnum

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Pan and Cardoon

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