Amelia's photos

Adrian was in charge of the camera while I went for a paddle. I wondered why I ran out of battery charge that evening.

Silene dioica. Red campion.

SC45 = Abstraction I took this using the shutter speed priority and vertical camera movement with a shutter speed of 0.25. This is a photo of one of our many bookcases, and it's just possible to recognize a clock at the bottom of the photo. Both Pips are taken in the kitchen, the first one has my purse and a packet of tissues on the top of the kitchen top, and the second one includes a magazine called 'The Oldie'.

Grange Court, built in 1633, is the last surviving market house known to be built by John Abel, a local master carpenter. Today it is a Community, Heritage and Enterprise Hub, owned by the people of Leominster through the LARC Development Trust. It is a place for people to meet, work, learn and enjoy! We found this place to be an excellent community centre. There were lovely displays of needlework showing the history of the UK, as well as artwork by schoolchildren. A yoga class was stretching in one room, and the cafe was run by two volunteers - a lovely lunch outside in the garden. A really nice place to visit. The second PiP is for Nick who is always searching for mermaids.

Sunday challenge this week: This week, the Animal World, cute and fluffy, or majestic and powerful, or anything in between. If you can't find a suitable animal, maybe an ornament, artwork, etc. Close up preferred. Both these photos were taken on a walk around Aston Cil Nature reserve. The lakes are gradually being colonised by more species. Yesterday we saw two pairs of swans, 5 noisy coots, a pair of mergansers, a few flying ducks and 3 varieties of butterfly. The orange tip is one of the the easiest to photograph as it seems to stay still especially on dandelions. The first PiP is of a small bluish black beetle also on a dandelion and seen in the same area as the butterfly. The second PiP is of a male blackbird foraging underneath our bird feeders.

Robert Owen; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858, was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. On a visit to Scotland, Owen met and fell in love with Ann (or Anne) Caroline Dale, daughter of David Dale, a Glasgow philanthropist and the proprietor of the large New Lanark Mills. In July 1799 Owen and his partners bought the New Lanark mill from David Dale, and Owen became its manager in January 1800. Owen was a "pioneer in factory reform, the father of distributive cooperation, and the founder of nursery schools." His schemes for educating his workers included opening an Institute for the Formation of Character at New Lanark in 1818. This and other programmes at New Lanark provided free education from infancy to adulthood. In addition, he zealously supported factory legislation that culminated in the Cotton Mills and Factories Act of 1819. A true philanthropist. Courtesy of Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen The PiP shows the inside of his house.