Our "weather" photos for February

Here is the selection of February photographs that you have sent me from Alton - and around the world!

Ken - a cold start to February in Alton!

Don - no rain in February in sunny Thailand

Sue H - a windy day in Tenerife

Kate - Gladys Hat feels the cold

Jan - a South African sky

Gaynor - Tasman Sea, Westport NZ

John

Angela - February sunshine and long shadows

Sue Jones

Helen

Rosie

Steve - Snowy Selfie

Ailsa - Champagne reception .... outdoors! 22nd Feb. Elmore Gloucestershire

Keith C - "Anyone for tennis?"

Gill - Coming along the Selborne road

Keith AO - weather glorious on Castaways Beach Antigua

That is all for now folks!  The theme for March is "wildlife" - have fun with it!

Our "Tree" photographs for January

Our topic for the start of 2019 was "Tree(s):

Steve - Winter Trees at Polesden Lacey

Don - Christmas is over!

Ken - silver birch

Sue H - tree pose at Yoga

Rosie - Center Parcs

Jan - Mottisfont Abbey

Kate - post Xmas in Surbiton

Helen

John - in my garden

Gaynor - Queensland

Gill - my new Indian bean tree

Ailsa - "Winter"

Keith

......... and our topic for February is:   " weather "

Our photographs on the theme of "circles"

Ken

Don - last game of Otrio with my 7 year old granddaughter before leaving Houston!

Rosie

Jan

Gaynor

Keith C

Angela

Sue H

Gill

Helen - 'nomnomnomnomnom.................'

Kate - Festival Place decorations

Steve

John

.................... and our topic for January is:  "Tree(s)"

Walk - 5th December 2018

8 of us decided to ignore the dire weather forecast and have a 10 mile walk today - from the club, through Chawton Park Woods and across to Bentworth.  

We enjoyed a super lunch at The Sun and then headed back another route - this time coming back to the club through Ackender Woods.  We avoided rain on the way there but it caught up with us on the way back home.  

On the way to the pub - look, no rain!  

Coming back, I managed to take this photograph - just before I slipped over!

"Contrast" images

It is quite a challenging task to try to capture the idea of "contrast" in a single picture. You will also, no doubt, have found it difficult deciding between images.

I am sure that this thought won't have occurred to many of you (as your baking is always just right!) but one idea I had was to take a photograph of some baking that I had just done beside the recipe book's photograph of what it should have ended up looking like!

Anyway, here are the various interpretations you have all come up with for "contrast" - it has been great seeing them come in, with them all looking so different.  As before, the topic for next month is revealed at the end.

Sue H

Steve - light & dark

Jan - Caspar

Ailsa - the abundance of life and the finality of death.
Carpe diem!

Ken - black & white

Gill - sunlight & shadow at The Vyne, Basingstoke

Don - a Houston house on a winter's day!

Rosie

Helen

Angela - Edward Colston.......philanthropist and slave trader

John

Keith C

Gaynor - the garden at "Fort Defiance"

Kate - War or Peace?  The wreath with white poppies is from the Quakers



............................ and the topic for December is "Circles"