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Knole House, Kent

Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025

A beautiful day and a beautiful National Trust house and grounds. Wonderfully pleasant and helpful staff / volunteers. Bookshop sells new books, not second-hand – boo.

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A trip to Guildford and the Guildford House Gallery to see the soon-to-end exhibition of the shortlisted entrants to the Guildford House Open Competition. All the entrants can be seen at 2024 Exhibition — Guildford House Open Competition website.

The gallery has a rather nice little gift shop which coincidentally had several greeting cards with pictures by the artist Eric Ravilious, whom I posted about just a few days ago. All images were taken with the camera not the phone – much better!

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The Swasticar

Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025

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Sutton 3 – 0 Manchester United

Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025

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Ham to Richmond

Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025

A short River Thames walk from Ham to Richmond and back, with a snack at the National Trust’s Ham House. Pictures taken with an iPhone 13, in raw format. Disappointing pictures, even with the post processing – my camera would have done better. The sun shone later, and those images are a bit better.

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Eric Ravilious (1903 –1942)

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025

Aren’t these rather splendid! What an interesting artist (Eric Ravilious – Wikipedia) and what delightful pictures (Eric Ravilious – Wikiart)

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Valentine’s Day

Friday, Feb 14, 2025

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In almost total darkness

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025

Taken with an iPhone 13 using ProCam app and saved in raw format.

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Leighton House, London

Thursday, Feb 6, 2025

It’s been a while since we last ventured into London. Today, on a gloriously sunny but cold day, we visited Leighton House near Holland Park. What a stunning museum it is, being the former home and studio of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896).

Pictures taken with my new iPhone 13. They’re OK – perhaps a bit better than OK. I think they’re over-sharpened. I’ll continue using my Sony RX100 camera. Taking pictures with a phone is so damn convenient but I still needed to do some post-processing.