Roger Bennion's photos with the keyword: Willen Lake

For 'Sight and Sound' ~ Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Splendid Isolation (Live) ~ Warren Zevon ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Or, here ~ Splendid Isolation (Studio) ~ Warren Zevon "Splendid Isolation" features on Warren's 1989 album "Transverse City".

Explored! Thank you very much :-) SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE 17 NOVEMBER 2018 TAKE A PHOTO OF AN ODD NUMBER OF ANY SUBJECT (3,5,7 ETC.) AND ARRANGE IT SO THAT IT'S PLEASING TO THE EYE. I told them to stay together and keep swimming in the same direction.......please :-) This shot was taken at Willen Lake. The lake is quite large and for 'Sight and Sound' I have chosen "The Water is Wide" by David Sanborn & Linda Ronstadt. Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ The Water is Wide ~ David Sanborn & Linda Ronstadt

This Peace Pagoda is next to Willen Lake in Milton Keynes. It was the first Peace Pagoda built in the western world. I guess most everyone has recorded "Peace in the Valley" :-) I have searched YouTube and decided upon the version by Red Foley from 1951 when I was very approximately 2 years old. I remember it well :-)) Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Peace in the Valley ~ Red Foley

The Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda was built by the monks and nuns of the Nipponzan Myohoji. It was the first Peace Pagoda to be built in the western hemisphere. So, my 'Sight and Sound' link is "I Come In Peace" by the wonderful Joe Cocker. Gone way too soon. Added to ~ Sight and Sound ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ I Come In Peace ~ Joe Cocker Unfortunately, my link isn't working for everyone. So, here is one Karen has found :-) I Come In Peace ~ Joe Cocker And, another I have found :-) I Come In Peace ~ Joe Cocker

Explored! ~ Thank you very much :-))) Back to last year and another shot taken at Willen Lake where the organisation - “Newfound Friends - Newfoundland Dogs working for Children's Charities” was giving a rescue demonstration. Clearly the Doggy was stopping the dinghy from drifting away. So, my tenuous link is "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Drift Away ~ Dobie Gray

~ Explored! ~ Thank you very much :-))) I think I may be up-to-date with 'Sight and Sound'........Yippee :-))) Us male peeps are always a very helpful species as evidenced here by the very helpful gentleman helping the lady out of the boat! So, it seems logical to me to link this to "I Can Help" by Billy Swan :-) I don't mind the pleasantly distracting ladies in the video :-) But, to me, the video seems a bit odd to say the least.......perhaps they had an Art Director who said "I have some great ideas on how to shoot a music video that is a little bit different :-))) Added to ~ Sight and Sound Listen here ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ~ I Can Help ~ Billy Swan

Thought I should try a few candids at this event....and, this is one of them :-)

On 23 June I was torn between two essential photo opportunities!! Both were held @ Willen Lake, Milton Keynes. One was the Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival with much needed funds from the event being donated to the nearby Willen Hospice. The other event was the 33rd Anniversary of the building of the Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda. This was the first Peace Pagoda to be built in the Western World. We arrived in plenty of time but although the distance between the two events was not huge it would have been much better if I could have been in both places at once :-) So, it was a case of goin’ back and forth between the two :-) In the afternoon there were multi-cultural events at the Pagoda. These delightful Japanese ladies sang songs in English as well as Japanese. It was difficult to find good viewpoints (excuses again!) without standing in front of people. But I was fairly pleased with this effort. I felt the shot would be enhanced by a little soft focus so I did just that in Photoshop :-)

I don't know to which Team these belonged but I thought it was an opportunity to try some people shots :-) The Festival raises much needed funds for the nearby Willen Hospice.

'They' say you should always try and have a little bit of red in a shot. I think I might have met this criteria here :-) The Festival does a brilliant job of raising much needed funds for the nearby Willen Hospice! And, the competition was very fierce :-)

From Wikipedia - “The Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda was completed in 1980 at the northern edge of Willen Lake in Willen, Milton Keynes. This was the first Peace Pagoda in the western world. There is a Nipponzan-Myōhōji Order temple and monastery nearby.”

From Wikipedia - “The Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda was completed in 1980 at the northern edge of Willen Lake in Willen, Milton Keynes. This was the first Peace Pagoda in the western world. There is a Nipponzan-Myōhōji Order temple and monastery nearby.” From www.theparkstrust.com/parks/willen-lake-north - “The Peace Pagoda was built by the monks and nuns of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji as a symbol of world brotherhood. Above it, 1,000 cherry trees commemorate the victims of war, while prayers and messages of hope decorate the nearby One World Tree. Alongside the Pagoda is the distinctive Buddhist Temple, where the public is welcome inside or to visit the grounds with their Japanese and Zen gardens.”