holiday snap(s)

[Hot_Potato]

I'm not too good with the camera but am quite pleased with this one.....I'm standing inside and leaning over a safety barrier overlooking 'The Needles' whilst on a recent daytrip to I.O.Wight having just done an open-topped bus tour - it was quite misty out to sea (& chilly as the mist came in)....my friend and I were staying at lovely Milford-on-Sea and enjoyed our day out.

Also - I'm desperate to try posting another pic whilst it's fresh in my memory (address please Dan so I can send you some money - see my p.m. to you)

here goes! 

[Hot_Potato]

[Hot_Potato]

one more - then I'll stop!

these two are going for a paddle - this is a man-made 'lake' somewhere in the New Forest (forgotten it's name)......the first day we stopped there - there were several different animals and birds at the waterside.....we passed by twice more and no birds or animals were visiting :(

[lorna]

Hot-Potato. Nice pics,we went to IOW 2005 and 2006 thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, saw some of Ace's work.  First year we took Joshua ( Grandson) on the overhead "chair?" he lost his baseball cap and us grownups refused to go again the second year!!!

[GREENWIZARD]

well done  :)
it's a great feeling when you take a pic you're really pleased with :)
c'mon don't stop post some more......please :)

[Hot_Potato]

oh G.W. that's really nice of you to say that coz I know what a brilliant photographer you are! I've not got a zoom lens either so can't get that close to things.

You've encouraged me and I'll go see if there's anything else that might be worth posting :)

H.P.

[Hot_Potato]

this is one of two donkeys who were visiting the lake alongside the ponies and waterbirds the day we stopped there......apparently donkeys graze freely in the New Forest too but I've not seen them before when I've visited.

I couldn't get in front of him as he was approaching a car - you can just see the owners feet sticking out from the front seat of the car where he was sitting.

I suppose there are allsorts of clever ways of removing shadows and things like that but this is just as I saw it.

[Hot_Potato]

one more for now



couldn't get any closer (no zoom lens) without frightening him into getting up and moving.........realise I've not got this very well proportioned but didn't want face of person in background (didn't know them not because I didn't like them ;) )

[Mrs Ava]

Get you showing off and posting photos.  Lovely photos they are to.  Adore Donkeys and he is very cute.  And having done exactly what you did to get that sort of photo in the Isle of Wight, it made me smile to see yours.  Any more??

[GREENWIZARD]

glad i've inspired you ;)

[Tulipa]

They are lovely photos, HP.  They have a real sense of peace about them.  Just what I need after getting my lot out to school....  Thanks. :)

[Hot_Potato]

well here's another one but taken on a previous trip to New Forest area back in late September '06 - saw these 3 as we drove through one of the pretty villages - Burley I believe.....

let's play follow my leader

[Hot_Potato]

and this one was driving thru the forest - just had to stop for a cuddle - arggghhhh



the ground sloped where 'our' feet are hence the foal's front being higher than the back!

[Hot_Potato]

thought you might be interested in this tree.....it's a Sweet Chestnut (known as The Bewdley Sweet Chestnut) and is in the grounds of a delightful B & B that I stayed at in Bewdley, Worcestershire, towards the end of April this year.



This astonishing tree has a current girth of 33 feet 8 inches (10.2 metres) and spreads over no less than a quarter of an acre in the grounds of Kateshill House. This tree was selected as one of the Fifty Great British Trees to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

What makes the tree really exceptional is the spread of its branches, which have been allowed to grow unchecked. The longest branch which stretches down the slope on which the tree grows, has an elbow which touches the ground 44 feet (13.4 metres) from the tree and reaches to it's furthest extent 77 feet (23.5 metres) from the tree.

Isn't it amazing - wonderful to stand there surrounded by those branches - quite magical!

[Simba42]

one more - then I'll stop!

these two are going for a paddle - this is a man-made 'lake' somewhere in the New Forest (forgotten it's name)......the first day we stopped there - there were several different animals and birds at the waterside.....we passed by twice more and no birds or animals were visiting :(

This looks like the Lake made by Bomb Testing.... it's on the corner of B3054 heading to Lymington...

[GREENWIZARD]

you've got the bug now ;D
love your tree ;D