Friday 9 December 2016
Monday 5 December 2016
Sunday 4 December 2016
CWU BANNER
Here we are, back in the summer and the Tolpuddle Martyrs March.
This time with the banner for the Great Western Branch of the Communication Workers Union - people who transport and deliver our letters and parcels; it includes people like call-centre workers and postal drivers.
Printed on the banner is verse 91 from a poem by Shelley - the Masque of Anarchy - which he wrote in reaction to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 (in Manchester) - in which ordinary people who had come to hear speeches about reform and the right to vote were attacked by more than a thousand soldiers with guns and with swords, on foot and on horses. Hundreds who had come to the event were wounded and fifteen people died.
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many - they are few.
People who belong to the CWU are not necessarily high earners or in conventionally influential jobs - and this is one of the reasons I'm moved and inspired that these are the words for their banner. David sometimes defeats Goliath. Those who are not well off (or are women!) have, by joining together, gained rights which we now take for granted - like being allowed to vote!
Here are some links.
The Peterloo Massacre.
Wikipedia entry about the same event.
Here's a link to part of the poem.
(It's a very long poem. The link I've given offers further link to the whole thing.)
Saturday 3 December 2016
MAN BEHIND WINDOW
This is cropped from 'Flags' posted on 20th November 2016.
And in it I'm deviating from my overall approach which is to avoid people but I doubt anyone will recognise this man except those who already know where he works.
I like this as a picture in its own right, which is why I've put it here. But it's also because by taking photographs one comes across things (and people) one would never have noticed with eyes unaided. Photography becomes an inadvertent treasure hunt. So I'm celebrating it!
Friday 2 December 2016
Thursday 1 December 2016
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Monday 28 November 2016
Sunday 27 November 2016
Saturday 26 November 2016
Friday 25 November 2016
Thursday 24 November 2016
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Monday 21 November 2016
Sunday 20 November 2016
FLAGS
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BLUE,
BRICK,
BROWN,
CIRCLES,
FLAGS,
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HOTELS,
LETTERS,
MEN,
OXFORD,
PAPERS,
PEOPLE,
RED,
REFLECTIONS,
TOWNS,
UNION FLAGS,
UNION JACKS,
WHITE,
WINDOWS,
YELLOW
Saturday 19 November 2016
CLIFFS
These are the tops of cliffs on the west side of West Bay in Dorset. On the east side of the harbour, the cliffs are dramatically rippled and gold. Here they are stark and stripped and bare and grey and layered by millennia, Walk only a few steps further and the path is blocked because of landslides.
This is not always how people think of Dorset!
Friday 18 November 2016
CRANE
This is how it came out of the camera - and is how I like it best. |
This is the same photo in black and white. In some ways, it doesn't look much different but I miss the blue-ish sheen. |
When changing a photo from a grey day into black and white I often like to go for shapes rather than tones. Here is the same photo with the brightness and contrast adjusted. Pretty bold, eh? |
Thursday 17 November 2016
BIKES IN AFTERNOON HAZE
With very little adjustment, the haze can be removed from the photo - but then the bikes would no longer be as they were; they would be without magic. A few seconds earlier - and the light behind them was so strong they were invisible. But this was how they were - slightly touched with gold.
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Monday 14 November 2016
Sunday 13 November 2016
ANOTHER EQUITY BANNER
Waiting for the Trades Union March to start in Tolpuddle, Dorset. July 2017
Equity is the union for members of the performing arts.
For more about this series of photos - 'Save Our Steel' Man
Saturday 12 November 2016
CLIFFS AT WEST BAY IN LATE AFTERNOON LIGHT
Although it may be hard to believe, these colours are accurate. The sea is sea coloured. The pier is concrete-when-in-shade coloured. The sky is evening sky coloured. And the cliffs are the colour golden cliffs go when the sun catches them before it sets. (Dorset is rather a good place to live!)
October 31st 2016.
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Yesterday's post on my other blog - Loose and Leafy - was about Golden Light in Oxford. You might like that too!
Friday 11 November 2016
SWAN AND FLAG
Union Jack.
West Bay, Dorset.
October 31st 2016.
You may also like today's post on my other blog, Loose and Leafy - Golden Light at The Ashmolean (spilling onto a wet pavement).
Thursday 10 November 2016
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Tuesday 8 November 2016
JACK IN THE PULPIT - JULY
July 17th 2016
Arum maculatumNestled against the Tolpuddle Tree. (The most famous tree in England?)
Click for a National Trust video about the Tolpuddle Tree. It's a little repetitive but hang in there and you get to see not only its branches but right down inside the trunk
Monday 7 November 2016
FUNGUS IN QUANTOCK WOOD
August 26th
Mosses and rock.
I should have found out what this is.
But haven't.
So if you have ideas, do say.
About an inch across. So . . . not very large but very noticeable in the gloom and the green.
I should have found out what this is.
But haven't.
So if you have ideas, do say.
About an inch across. So . . . not very large but very noticeable in the gloom and the green.
Sunday 6 November 2016
EQUITY AND LEGS
Waiting for the Topuddle March to begin.
Equity is the Union for 'professional performers and creative practioners'.
Here, banner bearers are waiting for the 2016 Tolpuddle March to begin.
See this for more about the Tolpuddle March and Martyrs see post from 23rd October
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GMB BANNER; DORSET
Last Sunday, I posted a photo of the GMB banner for the South of England. Here is one for Dorset, leaning against a hedge before the procession starts.
In it I think I see
Gold Hill (a steep street in Shaftesbury)
The Topuddle Tree (a sycamore)
Chesil Beach and the Fleet
Durdle Door and the cliffs of Purbeck
Wimborne Minster
The thatched cottages - not sure . . there are cottages like this all over Dorset, including Topuddle. But they may also be a reference to Thomas Hardy's Cottage
The Sculpture of George Loveless
To find out more about the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival, see the first post in this series.
Labels:
BANNERS,
CHESIL BEACH,
CLIFFS,
COTTAGES,
DORSET,
DURDEL DOOR,
FLEET,
GEORGE LOVELESS,
PURBECK,
SCULTPURE,
SHAFTESBURY,
THOMAS HARDY,
TOLPUDDLE,
WIMBOURNE
Saturday 5 November 2016
Friday 4 November 2016
CRANE
A different angle on the crane I posted last Friday. (Scroll down to see pictures posted between then and now.)
Thursday 3 November 2016
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Monday 31 October 2016
Sunday 30 October 2016
GMB BANNER AT TOLPUDDLE FESTIVAL
July 17th 2016
For more about the day this was taken.
GMB is the General, Municipal and Boiler Makers Union.
The banner here is propped against a hedge while members gather. It will soon be taken into the road to take its place in the procession.
I think I see in the banner . . . Stone Henge (Wiltshire) The White Horse at Westbury (also Wiltshire) Windsor Castle (Berkshire) Brighton Pavilion (Sussex) A mine wheel (representing the Kent coalfields?) Is that Tower Bridge (London) poking up at the back . . . or . . . ? And what about Dorset? Maybe the fields being ploughed? Or the procession of banners itself?
Saturday 29 October 2016
CANOE ON CAR
This is evening. Down on the beach (beyond the railings) fishermen are setting up shelters. Soon, very soon, it will be dark.
West Bexington. Dorset. August 28th 2016
Friday 28 October 2016
Thursday 27 October 2016
Wednesday 26 October 2016
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