Stuart’s Photography

Desktop Wallpaper: The Window And The Cross

Posted by Stuart Herbert on March 17th, 2011 in Desktop Wallpaper, Travel Photography.

My theme this week is “Five Windows”, a small collection of photos of windows taken during our holiday in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2010.

This is one of the windows from the Church of St Peter at Chillingham, a small church dating back to Norman times. Once through the door, when you turn to the right, at the far end of the church hangs this metal cross in front of a plain white window. It’s quite striking in person, standing out as it does from the green grass on the hill behind.

But even this isn’t what makes the Church of St Peter remarkable, for it houses one of finest tombs found outside of any cathedral or minster here in the UK, and that’s a theme I’ll be returning to for next week’s wallpapers.

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If you’re reading this in the RSS feed, my original blog post also includes a Google map showing where this photo was taken. Unfortunately I haven’t managed to get the map to appear yet in the RSS feed, so for now you’ll have to click through to my blog if you want to see the map. Sorry.

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Stuart currently lives in South Wales, where his main photography project is to investigate the post-industrial landscapes of what was once the world's most important industrial complex, before it disappears forever.

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Merthyr Road: Abandoned Fence Post

Posted by Stuart Herbert on March 17th, 2011 in A473, Barry Railway, Church Village, Modern, Tonteg.

Seen during a recent visit to Tonteg Junction, a former railway route converted into the Church Village bypass.

At the time of publishing, Google Maps still shows Tonteg Junction as it was before the construction of the bypass began.

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Desktop Wallpaper: Lead-Framed Glass

Posted by Stuart Herbert on March 17th, 2011 in Desktop Wallpaper, Travel Photography.

My theme this week is “Five Windows”, a small collection of photos of windows taken during our holiday in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2010.

This is one of the windows from the Church of St Peter at Chillingham, a small church dating back to Norman times. When you first enter the church, one is struck by its simplicity and tidiness. There’s little evidence of the steady stream of visitors through its door, nor the magnificent reason why that’s hidden around the corner just out of sight.

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