Felt Hat Photography Blog

Rhubarb Chard Zen

2011-10-12T20:09:00.000+01:00

The Rhubard Chard leaves and stems have been calling to me for a while every time I go to the Allotment.
Normally i put things directly onto a scanner, but this wouldn't work for the Chard where the colours come alive when viewed with the light behind - so an old light box was pressed into service to try and capture the sugary saturated colours.
Sadly by the time i'd finished the chard was limp and unattractive so its been taken back to the allotment as compost - nothing wasted, but i'd rather have eaten it!

Red Arrows

2011-08-14T22:43:00.000+01:00

Frog stalking in France

2011-06-22T23:03:00.004+01:00

"ribbit" the concentric circles here were because this frog had just joined in the frog chorus in the pond

I spent a pleasant few hours stalking frogs around the pond - these were some of the results.

Duras Graffitti

2011-06-22T22:41:00.003+01:00

This room under the tower in Chateau Duras has extensive graffitti - look at the changing writing styles and dates. I could have stood reading these walls for hours.

All Photos 13 June 2011 Duras
L Bradbrook

Chateau Duras

2011-06-22T22:32:00.001+01:00

Chateau Biron

2011-06-22T21:42:00.004+01:00

Brocante: Monpazier

2011-06-20T23:21:00.004+01:00

I'm fascinated by the collections of things in boxes that you see in these markets -the sometimes ordered and sometimes quite random seeming 'bric-a-brac' or even just junk that is in boxes at these markets.
All Photos L Bradbrook 2011

Chateau de Losse

2011-06-20T22:55:00.005+01:00

Chateau de Losse
Designated a "Jardin Remarquable"
For more information: http://www.chateaudelosse.com/en/jardins.htm
all images taken 14 June 2011
All images L Bradbrook

Topiary at the Jardins du Manoir d'Eyrignac

2011-06-20T21:55:00.006+01:00

All images taken on 16 June 2011
Eyrignac is designated as a "jardin Remarquable"
For more information see http://www.eyrignac.co.uk/

deep purple

2011-05-16T22:15:00.003+01:00

Beautiful deep purple garlic from Toulouse, France

Mouldy Sicilian Lemon

Dutch bicycles

2011-03-24T23:42:00.000Z

Amsterdam and Haarlem
March 2011

Cordoba Alcazar

2011-02-27T22:01:00.004Z

A reflected paradise in the Alcazar gardens Cordoba
Spain 2008

Images LBradbrook

Cafe de la Place

2011-02-20T22:18:00.002Z

Cafe de la Place
St Paul de Vence, near Nice, France

Copyright LBradbrook

Pavement flowers, St Paul de Vence.

2011-02-20T21:28:00.005Z

Nearly all the pavements in St Paul are made out of these cobbles with flower designs made in them, they started doing this in the 1920s i think when the village became an artists colony & hang out for celebs in the 50s and 60s.

all images LBradbrook 2011

Quercus Rubra leaves in Winter

2011-02-20T20:29:00.000Z

Quercus Rubra
Fallen leaves under heavy frost December 2010

Copyright LBradbrook

Quercus Rubra

2011-02-20T20:17:00.000Z

Quercus Rubra
American red oak leaves in autumn. 2009

Copyright LBradbrook

Winter Hostas

2011-02-20T19:35:00.001Z

Autumn Hostas

2011-02-20T19:25:00.001Z

Autumn Hostas

Late Summer Hostas

2011-02-20T19:13:00.003Z

Hostas Late Summer

images taken 2009

Copyright LBradbrook

Summer Hostas

2011-02-20T19:06:00.001Z

Summer Hostas 2009
Copyright l Bradbrook

Crater

2011-01-22T21:45:00.006Z

Looking into the crater of Vesuvius

Views of Vesuvius

2011-01-22T19:57:00.009Z

Vesuvius dominates the Bay of Naples. Glimpses of the volcano can be seen around corners, beside buildings and through trees.

NYC miscellany

2011-01-03T18:15:00.004Z

New York Rainstorm

Lincoln Tunnel

Sidewalk Robot

Lampost Robot

Portishead

vintage till in the village

All Photos Copyright L Bradbrook 2008

MOMA Colour

2009-04-18T16:58:00.006+01:00

a self portrait taken at MOMA

Color Exhibition at MOMA NYC 2008
All images copyright L Bradbrook 2008

23rd & Broadway

2008-06-01T21:04:00.003+01:00

and finally a little homage to Stiechen - one of my favourite photographers

23rd & Broadway NYC.
The Flatiron is one of my favourite buildings.
(re-edited Dec 2010)
All Photos Copyright L Bradbrook 2008

Wired

2008-06-01T20:22:00.003+01:00

Brooklyn Bridge May 2008 (re-edited Dec 2010)

This was the two guys walking the wires on the Bridge seen earlier in this set - definately not a job for those with Vertigo!
Images L Bradbrook

Views of the Brooklyn Bridge

2008-06-01T20:15:00.002+01:00

Brooklyn Bridge was 125 years old on May 22 2008. Its one of my favourite bridges - definately in the top three!

(re-edited Dec 2010)
all images Copyright L Bradbrook 2008

Derelict

2007-12-30T16:00:00.000Z

Bristol 2007

Autumn in August

2007-08-24T19:52:00.000+01:00

Promenade des Anglais

2007-06-05T19:03:00.000+01:00

all images copyright : LBradbrook : May 2007

Allotments 2.

2007-06-05T18:52:00.000+01:00

Up the garden path

allotments Bristol : sept 2006 : images copyright : LBradbrook

Allotments 1.

2007-06-05T18:34:00.000+01:00

Allotments 1. Under Glass

Art Deco

2007-06-05T18:23:00.000+01:00

This Art Deco building in the centre of Bristol was demolished in May 2007.

These images were taken in Febuary just before demolition began.
All images Copyright LBradbrook 2007

Brocante - boxed treasures

2007-06-03T16:32:00.000+01:00

Brocante Market continued....boxes

Brocante: Dinner & a Movie

2007-06-03T16:13:00.000+01:00

Brocante Market in Nice, with everything you need for dinner & a movie

All images Copyright: LBradbrook May 2007

Palme d'Or? Cannes

2007-05-28T16:57:00.000+01:00

Snow

2007-03-04T18:08:00.000Z

A little snow on Clifton Down, Bristol
views through the bus window
08 Febuary 2007

all images copyright LBradbrook

Lunar Eclipse 03-March-2007

2007-03-04T17:55:00.000Z

The Lunar Eclipse 03 March 2007
seen from Bristol, England.

Totality at 22.44 End of Totality 23.58 GMT

All images Copyright LBradbrook

Taxi

2006-11-27T22:14:00.000Z

Riding in Cabs
New York, November 2006

I realised each time i viewed the city through a windscreen from the back seat of a cab, it was like a mini widescreen movie of travelling through the city. These then are stills from my mental movie.

all images copyright L Bradbrook

Street Furniture & Other Stuff...

2006-11-26T17:22:00.000Z

New York
around Bleecker Street, November 2006

all images copyright L Bradbrook

Fire Hydrants

2006-11-26T17:17:00.000Z

New York, November 2006

all images copyright LBradbrook

New York Nights

2006-11-26T17:03:00.000Z

New York , night, November 2006
all images Copyright LBradbrook

Chicago Taxi Cabs

2006-10-28T15:00:00.000+01:00

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Chicago Taxi cabs. Chicago July 2006

All images Copyright LBradbrook

2006-09-11T14:12:00.000+01:00

Ground Zero New York 2006

28/jul/2006 Copyright LBradbrook

Chicago: Pavement & Sidewalk

2006-09-03T19:36:00.000+01:00

Chicago 2006

All images Copyright LBradbrook

BONES

2006-09-03T19:18:00.000+01:00

The Field Museum, Chicago July 2006

All images Copyright LBradbrook 2006

Reflections of Chicago

2006-08-14T00:26:00.000+01:00

Chicago July 2006

all images Copyright LBradbrook2006

Monaco Tarmac

2006-07-16T15:51:00.000+01:00

Road markings in Monte carlo, Monaco Feb 2006

These images were taken on roads that are used as part of the route of the Monaco Grand Prix races

All images Copyright LBradbrook

Studies in Gray

2006-05-02T00:04:00.000+01:00

All images taken at the Jardin exotique, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Feb 2006All images copyright: LBradbrook

my ceiling

2006-04-12T14:37:00.000+01:00

March 2006

2006-04-12T14:30:00.000+01:00

Barcelona Dracs

2006-01-12T18:30:00.000Z

Barcelona 2003. Part of February Carnival celebrations with a very medieval feel. These were all taken around the Bari Gothic and the Cathedral

All Images Copyright L.Bradbrook

2006-01-12T18:28:00.000Z

Stairway

2006-01-12T18:22:00.000Z

Stairway: Barcelona 2003

Arizona 2004

2006-01-03T17:28:00.000Z

Monument Valley, Arizona/Navajo Nation USA 2004

The House of a Thousand Hands, Mystery Valley, Arizona/Navajo Nation USA 2004

All above photos Copyright L.Bradbrook 2004
Exhibited Bristol 2005

New York, Paris, Venice, Cairo - Casino! Las Vegas 2004

2006-01-03T01:29:00.000Z

All the above are views of Las Vegas NV. USA 2004
Set of 5 images framed together. Exhibited Sept 2005 Baristas Coffee Shop, Victoria Street, Bristol.
All Photos: Copyright L. Bradbrook 2004

Venice - September 2005

2005-11-15T17:19:00.000Z

Gondola emerging from a bridge

Gondola pool

Graffiti

Gondolas in the Dorsodouro

Canal - Dorsodouro

Gondolas by St Marks

Gondola - under the Rialto Bridge

Venice

Mask makers shop

St Marks Square

One of the four Horses - St Marks Basillica

A small canal.

All Photographs Copyright Liane Bradbrook.2005

Drives around Mull, Jun 2005

2005-07-17T12:44:00.000+01:00

All images taken while driving around Mull.

Trio, Mull

Boulder, Mull

Farm, Mull

Telephone Pole

Moors

A Lonely Weelie Bin & the Sky, Mull

Cotton Grass & Cairn

Passing Place.

Passing a Farm yard, Mull

Sheep on the Road

Road: Ulva Ferry to Salen, Mull

Open Boat, Salen.

Derelict fishing boats Salen.

'Cafe' at Calgary Bay. The chalk board faintly says cafe closed - they only way I knew it was a cafe! The cow must have been waiting for it to re-open?

All Images Copyright L. Bradbrook 2005

Staffa and Fingal's Cave

2005-07-03T11:27:00.000+01:00

Fingals Cave on Staffa

Links to further information about Staffa & Fingal's Cave:

http://www.turusmara.com/staffa.html

http://www.scottishgeology.com/classic_sites/locations/mull_staffa.html

http://www.showcaves.com/english/gb/caves/Fingals.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000AD2/qid=1120386909/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-3436282-0776425 You can listen to a sample of Mendelssohn's music here Hebrides - Overture (Fingal's Cave) Op.26

All Photos Copyright Liane Bradbrook 2005

Taxi Journeys

2005-05-24T06:16:00.000+01:00

Taxi Journey: Berlin to Schonefeld Airport

Taxi Journey: Bristol Airport to Bristol City May 16th 2005

All images: Copyright Liane Bradbrook 2005

Bus Journey: Berlin 15 May 2005

2005-05-23T10:54:00.000+01:00

I caught the bus no 100 at Alexander Platz, took it as far as the Richstag Stop explored around that area before rejoining the bus for the journey to the Banhof Zoo stop - the terminus for the route.
All images were taken from the upper deck of the double decker bus through windows scratched with graffiti.

Alexander Platz

All Photographs Copyright Liane Bradbrook 2005

Berlin: New Holocaust Memorial

2005-05-20T18:15:00.000+01:00

Images of the new holocaust memorial in Berlin on the first weekend after it was opened. Images taken May 15 2005
Link to BBC News article about the memorial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4531669.stm

All Photographs Copyright Liane Bradbrook 2005

Train Journeys Febuary 2005

2005-04-28T15:09:00.000+01:00

Train Journey: 15.30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington, Diverted via Westbury Wiltshire due to Engineering work.
This white Horse on the hillside was after Westbury & before Reading - I'll check on an Ordnance survey map & try & identify it.

Train Journey: Return: 15.06 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, via Westbury

all images: Copyright L Bradbrook 2005

Interiors

2005-04-28T14:50:00.000+01:00

Forsythia, Interior Bristol, Feb 2005

Allium Christophii, Interior Bristol, Jan 2005

Tulips, Interior Bristol, Feb 2005

Gourds, interior Bristol, Jan 2005

All images: copyright L Bradbrook 2005

Cornwall Feb 2005

2005-04-28T14:34:00.000+01:00

Chapel Porth Beach, Febuary 2005, tide going out, bitter cold wind blowing.
One of my favourite places to sit and blow out the cobwebs.

Stream crossing the beach, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, Feb, 2005

St Ives, view through the harbour wall.

Interior, rented cottage, Madron.

All images: Copyright L Bradbrook 2005

French journeys

2005-04-28T12:16:00.000+01:00

Table & chairs, early Morning view from a bedroom window. Near Moncaret, France

Pomegranates Nr Moncaret France, March 2005
These seemed to symbolise the end of winter to me, they were dry & split & empty - still on the tree but all around them the branches were shooting with the start of the new spring growth.
I read the story of Persephone as a child & its always stayed with me.

Table & Chairs, Chateau Les Milandes, Dordogne, France, April 2005

This was Josephine Baker's Chateau - its now open to the public & worth a visit. It was the first day of the season and the tables and chairs just set out and the gravel freshly raked. I liked the shadows of the trees cast across the gravel

Chateau Marquessac, Dordogne France, March 2005, Topiary Garden

This view from above onto part of the Topiary garden looked like a mini landscape in its own right - like something out of the wizard of Oz maybe?

Car Journey: D1 Lauzun to Castillones, Lot, France, Apr 2005

Car Journey; D21 St Cibard to Castillon-la-Bataille, France March 2005

Car Journey: Bergerac to Monbazilliac, March 2005, Roadside Cross at junction of un-numbered roads St Laurent-des-Vignes

Car Journey: Dordogne France, March 2005, Woodland

Car Journey: Dordogne, France March 2005 Logs by the roadside

Car Journey: Monpazier to Cadouin, France, March 2005, Growing Salad for Market

Car Journey: fields of vines and flowering oilseed rape near Monbazilliac,France, March 2005

Car Journey: Ploughed field

Car Journey: windscreen wipers, D2 nr Castillonnes, France March 2005

Introducing FeltHat

2005-04-25T18:41:00.000+01:00

FeltHat - hiking the Upheaval Dome Trail in Canyonlands National Park, Utah USA 11 Apr 2004

Copyright: L Bradbrook 2004