Jack White’s Gibbet
Jack White was a murderer who was left in a gibbet near Bratton Seymour to starve to death. To ensure people could see the consequences of murder the site is on a ridge with views in both directions....
Monthly Archive: September 2015
Bratton Seymour
The 23rd September was the Autumn Equinox. When the sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us! Since most Somerset churches are aligned east-west I thought it would be a good...
Axe Valley
Today I drove up Deerleap to photograph the mist that was predicted by the Met Office. They did a good job and the mist was right on cue. I regularly visit this spot, its...
Mist Engines
I’ve returned to the fields at Compton Pauncefoot to capture the straw bales at dawn. As you can imagine the scene was quite different to my last visit in the evening. Dawn As dawn...
Straw Bales
I have been looking for some straw bales in a good landscape for a few weeks. Finally, I found the fields being harvested at Compton Pauncefoot. Perfect, the fields are crossed with footpaths and...
Isle of Wedmore
A couple of visits today. First to a tree that sits at the top of the Yarley Hill above the small villages of Henton and Yarley in Somerset. The Yarley Tree Another early start, waiting...
Meare Morning
Today I went for a walk along the River Brue at Meare before heading off to work. It was very early as I had to be in South Somerset on the Dorset border by...
Somerset Mist
The 1st of September and the Somerset Mist season gets started with a bang. The best places for mist in Somerset are the Levels and Blackmore Vale. I’m lucky to regularly travel between these. Hoping for mist I...
