Herb Riddle's photos

A colourful shot of this very busy little harbour here in Scarborough on Yorkshires East coast. The colourful boats fight for attention against the colourful backdrop of buildings. Always a delight to be there, especially in conditions like this.

As the sun sinks behind the Costa Blanca resort of Altea we see the Sierra Helada Natural Park and skyscrapers of Benidorm silhouetted. The Winter moon is already high and the sun highlights the passing aeroplane con trail. For me: perfection.

Taken from just north of Altea at Cap Negret on the Costa Blanca, Spain. Shortly after the warm light on the distant mountain rocks soon faded as night descended.

A HFF to all from the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales. A big fence needed here to stop walkers from falling down this great height. Note, there is only a fence on one side. On the other, there is a 20cm iron lip to stop canal boats going over! The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct at 307m in length, is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in north east Wales. The 30m high, 18-arched stone and cast iron structure, which took ten years to design and build, was completed in 1805. - Another triumph for Telford,

As seen from the Croatian town of Cavtat. On shooting this here at the front of the Hotel Croatia, all I hear is the sound of lapping water and the odd bird. A whole flotilla of these fishing boats were heading back to Cavtat and Dubrovnik after a days fishing. No bad weather was forecast and so I presume this is quite normal.

This is actually a weir of 140m in length, designed by Thomas Telford in 1808 to make a lake to feed the nearby Llangollen Canal. In the background we can see the surrounding beautiful countryside that abounds in this part of Wales.

Happy Fence Friday everybody, Sorry this has been posted on Monday but....I'm new to this! This is part of the Chirk castle fence in Wales. Apologies for the big gate too :)

A great place of history to wander around and soak in our heritage and with scenes like this too, how can we be disappointed. Founded in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, this was the last Cistercian monastery to be built in Wales.The abbey is believed to have housed up to about sixty brothers, 20 choir monks and 40 lay-members who would have carried out the day-to-day duties including agricultural work.In 1537, Valle Crucis was dissolved,

One can almost imagine the monks in the year of 1201 having their first meeting in here, Now the chiselled stone has gone green with moss but its still pretty impressive.

Not far from the little railway town of Llnagollen in Wales we have this marvellous old Abbey. More info: cadw.gov.wales/daysout/vallecrucisabbey/?lang=en

This is a view inside the splendid Chirk Castle park where one is relatively free to wander. of course for me the natural coming storm lighting makes it too.

This castle was built by ' Roger Mortimer de Chirk' between 1295 and 1310 to guard the Dee and Ceiriog valleys in the days of Edward the First. A castle with real history as five of its owners were executed for treason. Now owned by our National Trust we can walk its grounds for free and gain entry for a small fee. My photo here dose not in fact convey how mighty the walls are at close quarters but it does show its high position and splendid parkland.

There are a couple of tunnels near here, this one being the shorter of the two designed by Thomas Telford: The Whitehouse tunnel, at about 175m long, the building of which commenced in 1802. It is famed for being one of the first canal tunnels in Britain to have a towpath inside.

This is what it is like to get married in a busy tourist hot-spot like Dubrovnik. A great place to have your wedding photos taken maybe but one has to not mind the tourist, purposefully kept in full view (including heads-only) here to convey some of the true busyness of this spot. ps- these steps where featured a great deal in the major series 'Games of Thrones'.

The back streets can get pretty hectic here within the old city walls of Dubrovnik. At least one can still get a manicure easy enough :)

Leaving the tourist and shoppers behind, we see here that parts of old Dubrovnik have a quite calm.

This part of my local Dove Stone reservoir never fails to impress me with its calm tranquillity ad subtle colours. Autumn is always a great time to enjoy and explore around here. Notice the seats, maybe one day I shall actually see someone sitting there :)

As we see this local heron flying in total freedom, let us give a thought to those people in this coming new year that are not free to roam or go as they please.