ABC Wednesday - F is for...

Flying Machine... and also Female :O)

Am reliably informed that this is a Tiger Moth aircraft...

Taken at Sywell Aerodrome in Northants (with the 

lovely Caroline modelling her vintage wardrobe).

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Also sharing with Sweet Shot Tuesday.

Cats on Tuesday...

Just a quick note today - can you all send healing purrs for Charlie please? He doesn't seem too well at all and is off to the vets this morning... 

August...

Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,

Ripening fields lush-bright with promise;

Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing

Her fading green glory onto riotous Autumn.

                                            Michelle L Tieme

This weekend central England has sweltered under hot, oppressive August skies... summer has arrived with a vengeance (just in time to say goodbye until next year).  We made the mistake of trying to go to a balloon festival yesterday - never, ever go anywhere called Billing Aquadrome.  You will regret it.    Dreadful place and only three balloons up when we got there - we couldn't stand the idea of hanging around to see if any more arrived so got home very hot, bothered and fed-up.

Today was still warm but at least we were out in the local countryside and I got to take some photos in a field.  Peace, perfect peace... not a hot-dog vendor or fun-fair blasting mindless music into my ears in sight...

The one pic from yesterday that I'm not ashamed of...

Well only a bit,  the others were worse - almost made my camera

put a bag over its head and refuse to take any more photos...

These are from this morning...
my camera was much happier with me.
I'm glad - I hate it when we're not friends :O)

The Weekend in Black and White...

A bit early just in cast I don't get time tomorrow!  Posky again in monotone - giving someone the evil eye by the look of it...

Linking to The Weekend in Black and White.

ABC Wednesday - E is for...

Ewes...
Enjoying some late summer sun.

Elmesthorpe Church...

Believed to have given shelter to some of Richard III's
troops before and after the Battle of Bosworth...

...and Early Morning Light.

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Cat on Tuesday...

I have failed miserably in my duty as official photographer to the cats this week - this was pointed out to me by Pepper. She went into full-blown drama queen mode at the idea of her picture not being seen on the interwebz and said that her little heart was breaking because of me... (I have a tear in my eye as I type - sniff).  To pacify her here some picture I took a few weeks ago.

I will try and do better for next week - honest!

Pepper...

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Photo Shoot...

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening countryside, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

Sarah Orne Jewett

That just about sums up yesterday (apart from the fact that I was in Ye Olde Englande and not the new one).  I spent the day with David at Sywell doing a photo shoot.  The model was Caroline who has only been modelling since April, but who was so gorgeous and so professional that it was a real pleasure to photograph her.

I'm a big fan of the style of film noir, and also of Hollywood portraits of the 1940s with that strong dramatic lighting they used, so I took the opportunity to try out a few shots using our shiny new lights.

 

Can not only look like a femme fatale, 

can also obviously do mechanics at the same time...