RickGaehl

RickGaehl, 10 hours ago to photography

This is a picture of Brixham harbour, which is only a few miles from where I live. It made the national news last week as the epicentre of an outbreak of cryptosporidium, but is normally thought of as a picturesque fishing port.
It's a popular tourist destination and, to the left of the shot, you can see its well-known replica of Sir Francis Drake's 'Golden Hind', in which he circumnavigated the globe. It's a disturbingly small vessel.

#Photography #Travel #Devon #Coast #Boats #History

RickGaehl, 3 days ago to photography

A spot of desolation from Witley Court, in Worcestershire, for #FensterFreitag.
It was burnt down in 1937, and only made safe for visitors after 1972, when it was taken into the care of English Heritage.
It's main claim to fame is as the location for the video made to accompany Procul Harum's debut single 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'.

#Photography #Interiors #Psychogeography #History #Architecture

RickGaehl, 4 days ago to random

Funny... but pretty much also true...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz5jUMVfJP4

RickGaehl, 4 days ago to photography

I've been going through my old film slides and trying to digitise them.
This dandelion head was last seen, in person, on a sunny Greek hillside nearly 50 years ago, in early summer 1975.
That was the year the first video machines became available, the first, primitive digital camera was produced, the first 'mobile' phone was patented, and the name 'Microsoft' was trademarked.
Fewer than 1% of all the photos in the world had yet been taken...

#Photography #Closeup #ThrowBackThursday #Flowers

RickGaehl, 6 days ago to photography

The biggest tree in our garden is this copper beech, although it isn't really quite as big as it looks in the photo. At this time of the year, its canopy is just coming into leaf, and the young leaves are this wonderful red-green colour. They are an especially impressive sight when the sun is shining through them.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Trees #Gardening #Spring #Nature #Trees

RickGaehl, 8 days ago to photography

A #SilentSunday on the Brecon Canal.

#Photography #Wales #Canal #Landscape

RickGaehl, 9 days ago to photography

Just come in from the garden, where I've been entranced by the Aurora Borealis. In Devon ffs! I've waited a long lifetime to see this...

#Photography #Aurora #Devon

NunavutBirder, 9 days ago to random

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this much activity on this Aurora forecast chart.

RickGaehl, 10 days ago to photography

It's Friday, so here is a window for #FensterFreitag - complete with a nosey cockatoo...

#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Birds

RickGaehl, 11 days ago to photography

I'm in Cumbria this week, and a lot of the stone walls and banks have lovely, yellow poppies growing on them. I do like a California poppy, but these are Welsh ones I've just learned...

#Photography #Spring #Bloomscrolling #Yellow #Flowers

RickGaehl, 12 days ago to photography

It's Wednesday. It's time for a trip to the seaside, so here is a view from Wittering, in Sussex, for #MeerMittwoch
How painterly is that sky?

#Photography #Seascape #Clouds #Sea

RickGaehl, 15 days ago to photography

Here is a nice picture of some restful apple blossom for #SilentSunday

This one is a Cox's Orange Pippin, in case you were wondering.

#Photography #Spring #Blossom #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #Nature

RickGaehl, 17 days ago to photography

This shop has definitely seen better days, but it's doing ok as a spacious dovecot.

#FensterFreitag #Photography #France #Psychogeography

RickGaehl, 19 days ago to photography

"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." (Psalm 107)

They'd be foolish to try it in these boats though...

#MeerMittwoch #Photography #Sea #Boats #Decay #Psychogeography

RickGaehl, 20 days ago to photography

One of the reasons I went to Cumbria last week was to check on the 250 trees I've planted up there.
This beauty is a small-leaved lime. Once upon a time, this was one of the dominant tree species in Britain, but that was a few thousand years ago and they're not all that common these days. This one seems to be doing well though.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Trees #Woodland #Nature #Conservation #Environment

RickGaehl, 22 days ago to photography

Here's a peaceful clump of forget-me-not for some #SilentSunday contemplation.

#Photography #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Spring #Nature #Gardening

RickGaehl, 25 days ago to photography

I'm up in Cumbria this week and spring comes much later to this valley than it does at home. The bluebells are only just opening up here, but there is a lovely carpet of misty blue ones in the wood.

#Photography #Spring #Flowers #Blue #Cumbria #Nature #Bloomscrolling

RickGaehl, 27 days ago to photography

This is one of my favourite times of the year. All the trees are finally coming into leaf, there is the odd, warm, dry day, and the promise of summer stretches out before us. All summers seem to be filled with potential delight in my imagination - before they actually happen...

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Trees #Nature #Spring

RickGaehl, 29 days ago to photography

Dawn breaks over the Severn Estuary on a #SilentSunday morning.

#Photography #Landscape #Water #Gloucestershire #Psychogeography #Dawn

RickGaehl, 1 month ago to photography

Let's post something colourful for Saturday, I thought...
I know - I'll post a picture of my laundry hanging on the line. 😊

#Photography #Colour #Psychogeography

RickGaehl, 1 month ago to photography

Here is the view towards Pentire Point on a stormy day for #MeerMittwoch

#Photography #Seascape #Beach #Rocks #Nature #Sea #Cornwall