5/5 It's #Spring

Silver Birch catkins in Holland Park. Nothing says spring like catkins.

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4/5 It's #Spring

A Camellia in a garden in Kensington.

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3/5 It's #Spring

I particularly like the beginning of spring when you get a mix of new growth and the bare structures left from winter.

River Ravensbourne - Beckenham Place Park in S London.

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2/5 It's #spring

Shot in Hyde Park two weeks ago, AI suggests this is Chinese Winter Hazel. It also told me "It's a beautifully sharp shot — the shallow depth of field really isolates those flower racemes nicely against the out-of-focus clusters behind."

Who am I to argue?

(It's probably wrong about both)
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1/5 it's spring

This week some random snaps that say #spring is here (meteorological spring starts on March 1). Here are some rather lovely magnolias in s London.

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5/5 #Pitzhanger Manor

#Lookingup at an ornate ceiling in Ealing's Pitzhanger Manor - where I used to change my library books 50 years ago.

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4/5 #Pitzhanger Manor

The first snap looks like a room but is a kind of skylight - just over a metre square- built on top of the third pic's entrance hall and seen from below in the second .

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3/5 Pitzhanger Manor

#Georgian elegance at Sir John Soane's former house.

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2/5 Pitzhanger Manor

Another shot from what was Sir John Soane's home. The Laowa 6mm (12mm ff equivalent) is tricky to use but very effective when you get it right, Three exposure bracketed shots combined in Lightroom.

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1/5 Pitzhanger Manor

Last time I went here was about 50 years ago when it was Ealing Central Library. But long before that it was where Sir John Soane lived. Now the house has been restored and has an art gallery attached.

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