When I showed some shadows from the Valley Gardens in Harrogate the other day, they seemed to go down well. Here’s another view of those same shadows from a different part of the arcade. With added shadow, of course.
For Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Shadow (Just like Becky, I seem to have disregarded the One Word – sorry.)
And of course for Becky’s NovemberShadows.
This relaxing spot in the Valley Gardens in Harrogate is one I’ve shared before. But the shadows are so very distinctive, they deserve another outing for NovemberShadows, I think.
Today, it’s my turn to offer a theme for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness. And I’ve chosen Mirror.
‘Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?’ So asks the evil queen in the classic 1937 Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
I haven’t used my mirror to find the answer to this question, largely because I haven’t got a magic one. But I have found some mirrors in a junk shop in Harrogate, reflecting both some of the goods on offer, and the Victorian street where you’ll find it. In fact the shop window itself serves as an extra mirror.
And here’s another street mirror, helping the motorist out into a busy road. And a car’s passenger-side mirror in Lancashire one winter’s morning.
Let’s default to shop windows as mirrors.
And the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead makes a ceiling into a mirror, while outside the VA in London is one in marble……
Water is an old favourite for a reflective surface. Let’s go to Studley Royal, Seville, a humble puddle in Masham, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Gargrave.
…. and finally, an impromptu wintry lake mirror near home.
Oh, and finally finally, a bit of fun. Two little lambs spotted last week. Using a pre-digital film analogy, one’s a negative of the other. Not quite mirror images, but please don’t quibble when they’re so sweet.
A fortnight ago, I took you to Harrogate’s Valley Gardens to view a few benches. This week, I found myself there again, sharing its delights with a friend from London. One of the benches I featured last time was vacant when we passed it, so I had a bit of fun with the shadows playing over the area.
For Jude’s Bench Challenge.
I spent much of Thursday in this lovely park with some members of my photo club on Thursday. I thought I ought to take a few shots of benches, in among, especially for Jude’s Bench Challenge. Here they are: though the header photo was taken in the town centre, and shows a bench as possible Photo Opportunity. As you see, we declined to take advantage.
Harrogate Hospital’s car park seems to have had a makeover. This is what you’ll see in the verges which surround it.
I can’t speak for the cars. But I like it. Very much.
For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.
Quite often, if you want your plants to burgeon, you need to cossett them into life by starting their lives off as seeds in a pot. Here are some Victorian plant pots from Harlow Carr Gardens that must have chivvied generations of plants into health and colourfulness.
For Becky’s #SquaresRenew
Almost anyone who visits Harrogate considers that taking morning coffee or afternoon tea at Betty’s is part of the deal. This iconic part of the town has been here since 1919, and has the reputation of being thoroughly civilised, with the highest standards. Whatever you choose to eat or drink will be delicious, and elegantly served. But it’ll cost you.
Something else that could cost you is the egg that forms a traditional part of its display every Easter. It weighs in at over 5 kg. but could be yours for £375. You can read all about it here.
For Brian’s Last on the Card
Out and about in Harrogate yesterday, I came upon the following Retail Experiences. The featured photo shows the collection of dogs and cats greeting me as I passed them on the pavement.
Here’s a tobacconist’s shop (who knew such a thing existed any more?) with a reindeer and Father Christmas bursting through the plate glass window. Well, they were rather late delivering.
Lastly, there’s a – well, I don’t quite know what to call it – Quirky Notions and Ephemera shop. These characters greeted me as I wandered in, then out again.
The rain started to fall, then deluge, and I scurried away.
This week, for the Lens Artists Challenge, Amy asks us to consider ways of framing our shots. So my featured photo doesn’t do that. The frame shown here, at Brimham Rocks IS the subject of the shot.
Sometimes, the photographer finds a frame has been fortuitously laid on. Here we are on the Regents Canal in London, in maritime Barcelona and at Harlow Carr Gardens in Harrogate.
Sometimes a window – an actual window, or a suitably-shaped hole-in-the-wall provides that frame. Here’s the South Bank in London, a shot taken while sailing to Bilbao, another view at Harlow Carr, and a convenient window overlooking the River Thames near Blackfriar’s Bridge.
In her post about framing, Sarah of Travel with Me fame took us to Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. We’ll go there too, but wander through the wooded area of the High Ride, and into the parkland of Studley Royal, allowing the trees themselves to frame the picture.
And lastly, another view which didn’t work as well as I hoped, through a chink in a drystone wall in the Yorkshire Dales.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
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