Monthly Archive: February 2016

Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge

I’ve been to Cheddar Gorge many times for a walk but rarely with my camera.  Today was the first time I had gone explicitly to take pictures.  I had hoped for a clear winter’s...

Please stop!

Middledown

Today I took my camera on a walk around Middledown.  This is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve high in the Mendip Hills.  It is a group of large limestone open-plan grassland fields.  This was my...

Ice at Priddy Mineries

Ice

The path through Priddy Mineries was covered in frozen puddles.  Helped by trapped air; the flow of water and some hoar frost the ice formed into a series of glass like patterns.

Hoar Frost at Priddy Mineries

Hoar Frost

With the weather forecast promising a cold morning and clear blue skies I booked a day off work in the hope of getting a taste of winter which so far had eluded us this year.  To increase...

Priddy Green

Dawn Till Dusk

Over the last few days I’ve found a bit of time to visit a few churches in Somerset and photograph a couple views across fields and levels. From frosty dawns to red sunsets around Wells....

Stileway-on-Sea

Stileway-next-to-the-Sea

This morning I was walking around Lynchcombe.  This reserve has excellent views across the Somerset Levels.  I could see the fields around Meare were under floodwater so in the afternoon I drove down to there...

Lynchcombe, Mendip Hills

Lynchcombe Steps

Another walk around Lynchcombe on a winter’s day.  This Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve is on the south edge of the Mendip Hills and the views across the levels are one of the wonders of...