Photos from Bethlehem

Local student Joy Stacey has just graduated at Anglia Ruskin University. In the final year of my Photography degree she has put together a photo-documentary on Bethlehem and the effect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict there. She is currently trying to exhibit as much as possible in order to both raise awareness and hopefully find sponsors to go back and create a bigger project. You can her work at www.joystacey.co.uk, and do get back to her if you are interested!

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George and Dragon in the Dales

Bedale Church

Masham Church, stained glass window

At Masham too – a more peacable picture

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Pictures from the Dales

Middleham, The VIllage Shop

Jervaulx Abbey, Piled Pilaster Pieces

Masham Church, More Early Modern Toothache

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Summer is i-cumen in

I hope you like the new summer look … though I have to say I wouldn’t be seen in anything like that myself.

It’s just that I’m always a sucker for the photo-editing sites that seem to be springing up all the time that are unsurprisingly geared to the drastic and deadly end of the market. This one is at http://www.befunky.com.

Here are some of the more eye-worthy transformations of a picture I took at Tobermory, to make amends.

   

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Be a Warhol Pop Hero

Did you see the excellent programme on Andy Warhol by Alastair Sooke last Sunday evening? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rrbdj). A.S. mentioned a gizmo that will Warholize your own picture. I tracked it down and you can have a go for yourself at http://bighugelabs.com/popart.php. Or if you’d rather become a Hockney collage, you can do that too. Enjoy!

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If you go down to the wood today: early spring at Anglesey Abbey

  

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Brancaster Staithe Harbour

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More from North Norfolk: this time the quiet harbour at Brancaster. it’s a great place for a boat-filled photo shoot.

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Flower Power at Peckover House

 

As the days get darker, there’s nothing like the odd surviving dahlia to bring a bit of sunshine back. These were in the ‘secret garden’ behind Peckover House (NT) at Wisbech.

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Autumn at Sandringham

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It’s an easy drive up from Ely to the Sandringham Estate, and you can walk round the woodland paths for free. The autumn colour was excellent this year, with lots of sweet chestnuts too. For those who can’t walk, try the Scenic Drive.

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Merville merveilleuse

 

Popped down to see St Peter’s Church in Merville town. It was totally destroyed in the First World War and a major reconstruction has only recently been finished. It looks splendid.

It seats over 400, with a small glazed-in chapel in the apse. I really hope they have times when it’s full to bursting: it deserves it.

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