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Photography => Trees, Plants and Flowers => Topic started by: Eric Hardy on June 09, 2009, 11:41:33 AM
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We went with friends to Stoke Poges on Sunday where Thomas Gray wrote his famous "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" The path to the church was lined with beautiful standard roses with beautiful scents. Here are a couple whose names, unfortunately I don't know and Anthea enjoying the perfume.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2479/3609809383_efc85d77cc.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3343/3610620436_43cabd5605.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3305/3610621762_3c02e75c6d.jpg)
Eric H
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Very good indeed Eric.
Like the photos! Captured to perfection. As we've already discussed, white is difficult, but you've managed it superbly.
Its nice to see Anthea enjoying the scent.
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We went with friends to Stoke Poges on Sunday where Thomas Gray wrote his famous "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard"
Eric H
Here's a link to that very same Poem (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard) for anyone who's interested.
Great photos again Eric. ;D
It's nice to see your 'better half' enjoying the heady perfume of the roses. :) (Who's the gentleman with her? He looks strangely familiar, but I know it's not you Eric. :D)
Laurie.
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Like the photos!
Thanks George. I was lucky that there was a bank of trees I could use to give a dark background.
Here's a link to that very same Poem (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard) for anyone who's interested.
Thanks Laurie. I found a similar site and copied and pasted it to my shot of the graveyard on Flickr. The poem is much longer than I remembered, I think we must have just learned the first few stanzas at school :)
It's nice to see your 'better half' enjoying the heady perfume of the roses. :) (Who's the gentleman with her? He looks strangely familiar, but I know it's not you Eric. :D)
That is a Flickr friend from Oxford called Martin Beek. He, his wife, Anthea and I sometimes go on what we call church crawls photographing and recording. (A bit too young to be me :( about 30 years my junior but we get on famously. He fits somewhere in between the age group of our eldest and youngest sons.).
Eric H