Reeds in the ice. The floods had not fully subsided when this cold snap arrived.

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Frosty reeds and castle!

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Frosty, foggy castle!

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Catkins.

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Path in Crackley Woods.

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Winter rose and shadow.

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Holyrood Park road.

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Door, windows and... dinosaur? Something for #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday anyway.

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St Margaret's Loch, Holyrood Park.

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Timbers. These are exposed frames of a "half-timbered" house on Castle Green; they date from the 16th to 17th century! The brick panels are later additions; they would originally have been "wattle and daub", ie mud. EDIT: The cottage and these timbers can be seen at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035342.

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I found a long-expired roll of Konica VX 200 Super colour film from a past Secret Santa, and decided to rate it at EI 50 and try some Intentional Camera Movement (#ICM). TBH it didn't really work out well, but maybe a few are worth showing. Crackley Wood...

#Pentax ME, #Vivitar28mm f/2.8, dev/scan by Filmdev.

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This one is #ICM but looks more like a double exposure. Also from Crackley Wood.

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Last one from this roll. Some times with #ICM the colours just go really weird on you, no idea where all this pink came from!

#Pentax ME, #Vivitar28mm f/2.8, Konica VX 200 Super colour film, expired 2005, at EI 50,dev/scan by Filmdev.

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I missed this roll of #Kodak200 from my #OlympusMju2. It's always in my jacket pocket, and when I'm out with black & white film and colour is called for, out it comes. I'm getting slightly better results now I remember to turn off flash in lower light frames! This roll was devved by Darkroom UK and scanned by me with Vuescan Pro; colours turned out better than I'd expected. I did scan a couple to RAW for inversion in @darktable but I've not tried that yet.

Birds on the wet ice on Abbey Lake.

Following a suggestion from @tomnorthfilm here's another icy Abbey Lake image in a panorama crop!

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(Note, neither the title nor description I'd added to the IPTC metadata in C1Pro made it through to the Alt Text, as I had hoped after seeing a comment from someone else.)

"When ford is flooded it may be impassable"!

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Floods and the castle.

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Millennium Trail flooded.

#OlympusMju2, #Kodak200 film, EDIT: devved by The Darkroom UK, home scanned (I got that wrong, my apologies!).

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Let's have a reflected castle in black and white again!

#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax [EDIT: M 35mm f/2], #IlfordHP5, dev by The Darkroom UK in XTOL, home scanned.

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Backlit castle gatehouse.

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Catkins in a wood.

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The well-pruned rose.

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Dark cloud over The Almanack at Abbey End.

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Abbey fields couple with dog. (What were they thinking? This is in March!)

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Long shadows in Talisman Square.

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Under the Avon Bridge. This roll of REFLX Labs Double X unfortunately had defects running right through most of it, mainly showing as black lines. Just about tolerable in a few frames.

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Two winter willows by the Avon. Defects clearly visible here.

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Bulrushes by the lake.

#Pentax MX, Cosinon-W 28mm f/2, REFLX Double X (Eastman 5222), dev by The Darkroom UK in XTOL, home scanned.

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The wonky gate.

#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax K 58mm f/1.8, [not REFLX] #Kodak Tri-X, dev by The Darkroom UK in XTOL, home scanned. Another roll afflicted by long scratches. EDIT: this is a new roll, post edited in haste, sorry!

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Narrow boats at a marina.

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Reed bed. This is actually the site of the dock where Kings, Queens, Lords and Ladies would arrive at The Pleasance, at the far end of the Great Mere from Kenilworth Castle, for their entertainment!

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Avon reflection. This house is directly opposite the Fishermen's Carpark, from which there is a pleasant walk into Stratford. Think we can also claim #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday!

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Avon reflection 2. Just down the river a bit from the previous...

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Two ducks.

#Pentax MX, Vivitar Series 1 35-70mm zoom,, #Kentmere 100 at EI 200, 1 stop push in HC-110 dilution B, home scanned.

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Magnolia. With this roll I was giving my Vivitar 35-70 zoom a run. I pretty much gave up zooms a few years ago, but it is a really nice lens, replacing the Pentax M 35-70 lens I destroyed on a rocky beach near the Forth Road bridge, years ago!

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13, Lower Ladyes Hills.

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The quiet chat (with visual shouting all around!).

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Young chestnut leaves 1. Looks almost IR, maybe it was the orange filter?

#Pentax MX. Helios 44k 58mm f/2 lens, #IlfordFP4, orange filter, home dev in HC110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.

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Chestnut leaves and flower buds. Strong wind from the side in the first, but that flower spike stands tall.

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Reed bed again. We're a bit later in the Spring so the blackthorn is in flower.

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Canal bend. From a walk by a part of the Grand Union Canal we don't often visit.

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Lifting footbridge across a "cut" off the main canal.

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Picnic table.

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Hanging in there... almost dead tree.

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Memorial urn.

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Tulips.

#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax M 100mm f/4 semi-macro, #KodakPortra160, dev/scan by Filmdev.

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Bee on the Japonica.

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Snake's head fritillaries.

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Prunus (I think). Short of going out with a ladder looking up was the best I could manage this year! #BloomScrolling

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Two quick photos of thatching in progress. You can clearly see how the new thatch is layered on top of the old here. First could also work for #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday .

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Pieris. This particular specimen in our garden is over 10 feet tall, and a really nice shape. Mrs R thinks it's too big; I think it's just... magnificent!

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Oxford street.

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@carusb It's enough to make anyone a thatcher supporter! 😄
@mrundkvist Eeeek! What have I done! Oh noes, must take it down... Oh, I see ;-)
@carusb so lovely, pleasing in every way!
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Wow!
This photo stopped me in my scrolling tracks!
Great composition.
Great colours.
Perfect sharpness!
Had to be said.
Have a nice day!
(Even if it is Monday.)
@deegeetee Thank you so much. The tulips were beautiful, the light was OK, and the lens is a cracker, so what more can one want. But I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
@carusb Porta sure has beautiful colours.
@tapasinthesun I always used to prefer Portra 400 but these rolls of Portra 160 I got on a deal from Analogue Wonderland are really lovely. The rest of the roll doesn't quite keep up, though!
@carusb Porta is a bit of luxury these days because of its price. 160 is cheaper than 400 here, so that is what I use.
@carusb Has it been dry there? The leaves look a bit listless.
@tomnorthfilm It has been very dry for the past few weeks, but not back when these were taken. I think it's just that the leaves were very new; they fill out, strengthen and spread out later, before, sadly, very quickly getting affected by the ubiquitous horse chestnut leaf miner pest that causes ugly brown blotches on all the leaves as the larvae munch there way through the insides! https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/pest-and-disease-resources/horse-chestnut-leaf-miner-cameraria-ohridella/
Horse chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) - Forest Research

Information about horse chestnut leaf miner moth (Cameraria ohridella), a pest of horse chestnut (Aesculus) trees and some Acer species

Forest Research
@carusb gorgeous!!
@shom Thanks Shom. This is rather radically cropped as I wasn't happy with the composition!