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Garden gate near Parc Guell Barcelona

Canon 5D f11 1/30s ISO200 EF24-105L IS This unusual, almost eccentric garden gate separated a private garden from a path to an equally eccentric, make that fantastic public park designed by Antonio Gaudi. It was a wonderful thing that Goudi was allowed to let the product his imagination become reality. Some of the constructions are …

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Steps to a grotto in the Maze garden of Horta, Barcelona.

Canon 5D f4 1/125s EF 24=105 IS ISO200 The sculpture in the grotto is of the nymph Egeria of whom Byron wrote;Egeria! sweet creation of some heartWhich found no mortal resting-place so fairAs thine ideal breast; whate’er thou artOr wert, — a young Aurora of the air,The nympholepsy of some fond despair;Or, it might be, …

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Broughton Tower… Grand steps

Canon 5D No exif data Brougton Tower dates from the eleventh century and was added to from time to time over the next eight hundred years. Most recently the whole building was divided up turned into apartments. In the nineteen fifties it was a school that I was fortunate enough to attend. Gardening botany and …

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Side Steps… A cottage in Broughton in Furness

Canon S70 Architectural details have long fascinated me windows, door ways, finials, architraves and this case the theme of steps, which has continued for some time now. Wherever I travel I record these things as I see them, at one point I had it in mind to produce a series drawings from the hundred photos …

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