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TERMINAL PHOTOGRAPHY INDEX OLD NAKED PHOTO ALBUM PAGE: - JUST A STONES THROW AWY
This page has some pictures of things that are just up the road. Or down it, if you're coming from the other direction. Either way, they're not far from me.
• Colin Hunt. Not just a cockney insult. The CH observatory near Upper Winchendon is the home of the Aylesbury Astronomical Society, and a Geocaches. • Not far from the observatory above is this, the Dinton Folly. Built a long time ago by a man, it still stands besides the main Aylesbury to Thame road. • I was used to hold a display of things, but has long since lost its roof. And floors. However, this seems to have added to the atmosphere. • Just up the road from the Dinton Folly is... Well... Gibraltar. • A charming little folly tower on the wooded grounds of Hartwell House hotel, just a walk across the fields from my home. • 'Garden Pathy'. This is the view through one of the windows of the folly tower. • The so-called Egyptian Spring on a country lane behind the hotel is a striking example of no known architectural style! • Here I pose with a passing church. This is in the grounds of Hartwell House and was taken moments before I was asked what I thought I was doing. • The church at Stoke Mandeville as it appeared in about 1900. Note the fence, which is still there. • The site today. Totally covered in trees, yet many gravestones remain, and the land is still consecrated. • Here I am, looking like Uncle Fester from The Addams Family again, while geocaching, which is a 'treasure hunting' hobby which uses GPS handsets. • An artistic negative picture of a car I passed on the way to Fleet Marston church. • The key to get into this disused church is kept at the farm shop, a few hundred yards up the A41 towards Waddesdon. It's worth borrowing it if you can. • In this strange, lonely spot, it was odd to see this Landrover left on the path to the church, which can just be seen in the trees ahead. • The view of Ellesborough church from half way up Beacon Hill. David Jason lives somewhere around here. Lucky bugger. • A picture taken from the shade of one of the trees on top of Beacon hill. You can see the monument on top of Coombe hill in this shot. • This is the hill beyond Ellesborough as seen from the County Council Offices Tower in the middle of Aylesbury. • Mursley water tower, near Milton Keynes, looking pink at sunset. • Mursley water tower, looking solid from below. It's also sit of one of my geocaches. • Mursley water tower, looking like it's watching me, while I cycled past it. • Mursley water tower, viewed across open fields. Also shot while cycling in 2001 or 2002. • Mursley water tower, out of focus, photographed through leaves. • Mursley water tower, with the sun behind it. • Mursley water tower, viewed from afar, across woodland, as seen in 2002. • Mursley water tower, can you tell I love it? This is my favourite picture of this amazing structure. • Mursley water tower, bright in a shaft of sunlight against a dark sky. Taken in January 2004 while setting a geocache in the village. Legal notice - This page, inc. graphics and multimedia features are the intellectual property of Paul Smith and are protected by copyright. Last updated 11/04/04