Saturday, December 10, 2005

richmond park

so, it seems that this is going to be a once a week thing - or at least so for now ...

richmond park is right across the road from work and has been a nice diversion from the river for lunches especially since the weather has been a little wet and cold lately - there are lots of beautiful trees to take shelter under and the fall colours have been particularly brilliant this last week

the park itself dates back to the 13th century and at its highest point there is a clear view of st. pauls cathedral through a hole in a hedge bordered by an avenue of what i think are beech trees - now for any of you that know london at all you'll know that st. pauls is almost 20km away! according to the national parks website king henry VII retreated to the park in 1625 bringing his entire court with him in order to escape the plague in london - it was king henry VII that made the decision to enclose the entire park of 2,500 acres with a continuous brick wall that still stands in some form or another today, although it has been reinforced or repaired in many areas

anyways enough history - as i said i've been having lunch there some days (funny how so many things revolve around food for me) and happened to catch a beautiful sunny day on wednesday - luckily i brought my camera along with me and was able to grab a few shots which i subjected to the IR filter and they seemed to respond pretty well :)


1 Comments:

Blogger stephen said...

thanks qman its always nice to know that someone finds what i have to say interesting :) feel free to put me on your blogroll - s

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