This shark was on the bottom of the rotunda on centenary square in Birmingham. It doesn’t seem to be there anymore judging from photos on the net but maybe somebody from Birmingham can confirm that.
The two landscape windows are from Birmingham, the portrait one from Bamburgh. They were beautiful all by themselves but rather dull, dark grey with the window panes hardly showing. Let’s go for highlighting these beauties!
I happened to be in Michelstadt im Odenwald a couple of days ago and came across this frame with the thievestower behind it. It made me think of other frame installations I’ve seen in the past.
Ladenburg has frames like this along the walk through town to show what the area used to look before the walk was constructed.
This frame is from Leazes’ Park in Newcastle, behind St James’ Park of football fame.
Only a few kilometres to the east in Sunderland is this big shutter framing Roker lighthouse.
And the ultimate frame high in the Alps opposite this view:
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps.
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This owl was part of “The Big Hoot”, a campaign in Birmingham in 2015 when 89 owls decorated by Birmingham artists were distributed throughout the city. This one stood in Victoria Square.
Five years ago I was on my first visit to the UK. My camera was brand new, I had no tripod and very little experience with taking photos. But I wasn’t going to be deterred. I ventured out in the middle of the night from our B&B to take pictures of the blood moon (breaking my glasses in the process).
The next day we visited Stratford-upon-Avon and I stood in front of the house of one of my heroes and found out that taking photos with lots of others milling about wasn’t that easy.
We went on to Birmingham where I looked at the canals.
But our main purpose in being there was the Rugby World Cup and of course, seeing the Springboks – playing Samoa (well, not really but we took the tickets we could get). It was my first life rugby game and it was grand! Later we saw the Bokke play Scotland in Newcastle and that was even better. I didn’t know whether I would be allowed to bring my camera so I only have a few shots from the actual game, taken with my cell phone.
Birmingham had some great sights on offere like the most amazing library building and of course, I met the Floozy in her jacuzzi:
The ruins of this temple were found near Carrawburgh Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. The three altars are replicas. The soldiers stationed at the Fort built the temple around 200 AD to worship Mithras. Mithraism was a Roman cult long thought to be inspired by Iranian beliefs connected to Zoroastricsm but newer research finds this less convincing. However, this was a temple and there was worshipping going on.