Rochester

At last I had some time in Rochester in the evening.

Memories

Sometimes the best pictures are the personal ones, the ones that have all the good memories attached.

RIP Caroline

The Ford at Eynesford

After a couple of days with train the ford at Eynesford was running higher than usual. Quite glad I let a bigger vehicle try it first. After that I gave it a miss this time.

A bit more from Margate.

Another couple of images from Margate last weekend.

Turner Contemporary Gallery Margate

Today a long bike ride to Margate. A very different day too two weeks ago, then put the fleece inner lining back in my winter coat because of the cold wind. Today so hot that it was shorts and T's.

Minnis Bay

A walk along the prom near Margate

Gravesend Pubs

Gravesend is a town of many pubs. There is even a book on the history of Gravesend pubs called 'A Pub On Every Corner'

In recent years the town pubs have had a hard time and many are now closed and reused for other purposes.

I have been photographing these buildings as they change. Many have changed their names and most now are being repurposed.

One bar called the HQ Bar closed down last year and has been up for sale. Before It was HQ Bar it was the R Bar.

When I went past it yesterday I saw that the builders had been in and the front of the building was out.

What was interesting was the Borough Shades sign was visible. 

Also at either sides there were the advertising signs for the old pub.

No doubt when I next go to town a new shopfront will be in and a new tenant will be trading.

Trabant

I have known that there is an old Trabant car parked up behind a garden wall of a house that I pass on my way to the station.

It must have been there for at least a dozen years perhaps longer.

Until a few weeks it had been concealed by a door and walls. Then a tree came down and demolished the walls. Since then it has been in view but almost concealed under ivy.

It was one of the things on my mental list of things to photograph, today I had a camera and the time. so I got a picture or two.

Winchester Cathedral

Some images from Winchester Cathedral

Alloway Old Kirk

Some Infra Red images from Tam O'Shanters Church At Alloway, Ayrshire.

Infra Red

Years ago I had a Nikon D70 converted to be sensitive to Infra Red light. I bought a conversion kit from  Lifepixel and had Myles Whitehead, who is the camera technician who looks after my cameras, do the conversion.

The camera has not had the focus system adjusted to correct the point of focus for IR light, but with careful technique that is not a problem.

The results are very different to a colour camera and I go through spells of using the camera mixed in with long gaps when it sits in my camera case.

Over the last week I got the camera out and started to enjoy using it again.