Fair Play

Took a quick trip to the annual Salisbury Charter Fair this evening.

Been meaning to take the camera down there for the past few years but never seemed to get around to it.

Here are a few shots from this evening.

As usual, click on the images to enlarge

Google Strange View

I came across this really cool little web app recently called Street View Stereographic that gives you Stereographic Projection using photos from any Google Street View location you provide it.

I tried the site in standard installations of Firefox 8.0 and Internet Explorer 9 but I got a "your browser doesn't support WebGL" but it works just fine in Google Chrome.

I had a play around just using one location in (Salisbury City and got the following images.









As usual, click on the images to enlarge

Light Installation

I went along to the last viewing of Bruce Munro's light installation at Salisbury Cathedral.

This installation, made from 16,000 recycled bottles featured in the Cathedral's Cloisters. Each water-tower of bottles changed colour to choral music - Very soothing :)

Not too bad considering they were all taken hand held.











As usual, click the images to enlarge

Spire View

For something a little different, here is a close up view of Salisbury Cathedral's 404 ft spire using the telephoto lens



As usual, click the image to enlarge

Dark Religion

Came across a couple of night shots of Salisbury Cathedral on my computer.

They were taken around the same time as the Comic Relief Cathedral shots.

Cathedral Light Trails

Following on my obsession with light thought I would post another light trail picture.

Took this one a few months back but stumbled across it this evening whilst looking for something else.

Architects of Air

Last week I stopped off in Salisbury Cathedral close for a spot of lunch and to read the paper. What I found was a large inflatable in front of the Cathedral.

On further investigation I found that it is called Architects of Air and is a visual arts exhibition which is part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival.

According to their website...."Enter and be amazed...Drop in at any time and immerse yourself in an environment of saturated and subtle hues through labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes." At the time I just thought it was an elaborate inflatable kids playground!

Clarendon Palace Ruins

On the outskirts of Salisbury within the medieval deer park of Clarendon Estate sits the ruins of the former royal residence, Clarendon Palace.

English Heritage and the Clarendon Estate have in recent years been involved with the reclamation and preservation of this site which was once home to Henry II.

The ruins, setting, and wonderful views over Salisbury and the surrounding countryside make this one of the best kept secrets of the whole of Wiltshire and the South according to this BBC article from back in 2005.

The end wall of what was once the Great Hall of the palace.


View through a small hole in the wall.

Comic Relief Cathedral

With the tallest spire in Britian Salisbury Cathedral is taking part in Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day by turning its 404ft soaring spire red each night from Monday 9 March through to Red Nose Day on Friday 13 March. It hopes that everyone who sees the ‘red nosed’ Cathedral will be reminded of the comic relief message and encouraged to do something special to raise money for the charity. Read more here

Hope that everyone is doing their bit for charity today. I'm currently stuffed full of comic relief cakes :)

These shots of the Cathedral were taken yesterday evening...

Winter Wonderland

One day After returning from one snow covered winter wonderland in France it promptly started snowing here in the South of England. We have seen a fair bit of snow in the past week and the associated chaos that happens when we encounter any weather conditions which are outside of usual weather patterns. Roads not being adequately cleared / gritted leading to various routes being closed and thousands of schools across the UK were closed for a day or even most of the week.

The weather seems to have changed in to rain now so look out for flooding!!

Here are a few pictures I look after half a day of snow in and around the Cathedral Close.

Salisbury Savanna

Competition Photos Finally Submitted

As mentioned Previously the local rag has been running a photography competition.

I had great ideas about going out and taking lots of shots of various sites around the city but all of a sudden the closing date has crept up and I've not had much time to take any more snaps.

So here are the final 3 that I decided to submit.






It's a shame that they're all of the same subject matter but in my opinion they're not too bad. I especially like the infrared one but not sure that they'll accept photos taken with filters. We'll see.

Top prize is a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with seven runners up receiving a copy of photographer Steve Day's book, Wiltshire Moods

The Mighty Whites

After 3 evenings of drinking under our belts we thought we'd go and do something healthy (well, watching is the next best thing!) so off to the Ray-Mac to see The Mighty Whites (Salisbury City FC) continue their unbeaten run in the Blue Square Premier, that's the Nationwide Conference to most people.

Was great to see all the home support and a record league fixture attendance of 2093 for the 2:1 win against Woking.

Photo Competition

Noticed this week that the local rag is running a amateur photo competition of local life, landmarks etc.

You can submit up to 3 photos so yesterday evening I jumped on my bike with the aim of avoiding the rain and getting a few snaps down and around Salisbury Cathedral.

In general I'm looking for originality and something that will be different from all the usual tourist snaps.

Here are a few from last night. None of them really do it for me but I do like low light / long exposure shots.

I like the angle of this one.



















A bit of a different take on the usual Cathedral shots. Really like the silhouette.














General low night cathedral shot.














A different view of the Cathedral - Historic building v modern traffic!















Don't you just love the old style phone boxes.