I popped down to a local park today, for half an hour (it would have been longer but time was curtailed due to a broken card machine at my fast-food lunch stop, grrr). I've never been here before, I was under the opinion that there was a lake but I didn't find it. A little googling later on and I found that there is not only a lake, but the place has some interesting history. It was the location of the
murder of a Shropshire heiress in 1975 and is at one end of a
railway tunnel built when the nearby tunnel at Harecastle (built in 1848) was too low to take the new rolling stock. There are some photos
here, the Harecastle tunnels are also rumoured to be haunted.
Unfortunately the small section I saw of the park was rather uninspiring - a tarmac track then a muddy one, but I have visions of returning and getting some atmospheric black and white gothic shots with an aura of its grim history.
I couldn't decide between my mediocre shots, so I've gone with a first choice (a vibrant tree I rather liked) but also posted smaller version of options 2 (a ragged robin - well I've always known it as this but recently learnt it may not be, anyone know the real name?) and 3 (tree fingers).
70mm, 1/60s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 1600 (auto)
(left) 84mm, 1/100 (auto), f/5.6, ISO 1250 (auto)
(right) 18mm, 1/100 (auto), f/3.5, ISO 100 (auto)
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