Autumnal Polesden Lacey
A walk in the country
A country walk near Polesden Lacey.
Ripley – another walk
Another walk from Ripley to the River Wey Navigation and around the Ripley lake, followed by a light lunch in the very pleasant Nest Cafe in the village.
Ripley, Surrey
There aren’t many lakes around here, but I saw one on the map near Ripley. You can walk all the way round but I just went half-way round before diverting to a path through fields and on to the River Wey Navigation. A short walk to the Seven Stars pub for a glass of wine and a bacon & Brie sandwich. An interesting sandwich – not sure if the salad (lettuce, rocket, cucumber, apple, pepper, tomato, celery) was sufficiently healthy to overcome the unhealthiness of the bacon & Brie!
Lake near Ripley
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Wey Navigation
Wey Navigation
Wey Navigation
Wey Navigation
Not a simple sandwich
Headley Heath
Wescott, Surrey. This is somebody’s….
A Surrey Hills walk
Ockley
Dorking, Westcott & Surrey Hills
As well as wanting a walk, I wanted to see how I got on with lugging my DSLR around again and to see how the images compared with the iPhone. An 8 mile walk convinced me that the DSLR is just a weight I could do without (at my age). I also took iPhone pictures to compare with those of the DSLR. All the images below were taken with the iPhone apart from the first one of the the lethargic (sick?) frog and the second waterfall one (compare the thatched roof with that on the previous iPhone image). All pictures were saved and processed in raw format.
Conclusion? The DSLR will have to go – it’s just too heavy. The iPhone takes goodish images but often with a lot of noise. I need to get a replacement small camera that takes images with the quality of my dead Sony RX100, but at the same time continuing to use the iPhone just because it’s so convenient.
Hat lost, lane blocked!
Off for another walk starting at Westhumble. In my hurry to get off the train I left my woolly hat on the seat – it’s an age thing. Later, I had to backtrack on the walk because the lane was blocked. It wasn’t looking a promising walk but it all worked out OK in the end.
things change 