Chris Jefferies

Image of the day – 14

Any creative work seems quite magical, as what was only in the creator’s mind appears in actuality and can be seen and touched.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Here’s another view of the gardens at Hidcote. Lawrence Johnston designed Hidcote with the concept of ‘garden rooms’, one of which is the focus of this photo. Walking through the Hidcote garden you pass from one room to another, to another repeatedly. There are constant surprises every time you turn a corner or pass through an opening in a hedge. It’s delightful.

I love this kind of garden and I think you might too, if you ever have a chance to visit Hidcote – take it!

This, to me, says something about the nature of creation in general. There’s a design stage during which the idea of ‘rooms’ is a foundational step, and even some of the layout, or even most of it, take shape in the designer’s imagination. And almost always there’s a second stage after things start to be laid out on the ground (for a garden). In this second stage, it may become clear that improvements are possible once you see the ‘lay of the land’. Little tweaks and changes can improve the design significantly.

But always, in any creative work, something comes into existence that was simply not there before. Any creative work seems quite magical, as what was only in the creator’s mind appears in actuality and can be seen and touched, or in the case of a garden – walked in and admired.

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Image of the day – 13

Rio faces south and there’s a large, nearly landlocked bay, so this view was taken from a west-facing vantage point.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Most of the photos I post here are my own. But yesterday’s image was from NASA, and today’s is a stunning view of the sunset from Rio de Janeiro and came from Wikimedia Commons. If you need a good quality, free to use image, look no further, it’s an excellent place to browse around. You will also find free to use sound files, documents and much more.

At first I was puzzled that the details say this is a sunset. Rio faces south and there’s a large, nearly landlocked bay, so this view was taken from a west-facing vantage point.

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Image of the day – 12

This has been nicknamed ‘The Penguin and Egg’ by some astronomers, I think it looks rather more like a hummingbird.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

We have something a little different today. This has been nicknamed ‘The Penguin and Egg’ by some astronomers, I think it looks rather more like a hummingbird. But its real name is not so memorable, the penguin is NGC2936 and the egg is NGC2937. They are a pair of colliding galaxies and will eventually merge. This view comes courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope; the website is worth a visit, there are many more images like this one.

The universe we inhabit is huge. Those two galaxies are interacting, but it takes light 100 000 years to travel between them. Click the image and look closely and you’ll see dozens more galaxies in the far distance beyond this pair. We are surrounded by awesomeness!

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Image of the day – 11

Hidcote is managed by the National Trust to very high standards, and National Trust food is also very good.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Hidcote is a wonderful garden near Chipping Camden, north of Cirencester where we live, and I took this photo in June 2024. Donna and I spent a while casually strolling around, enjoying the sunshine and the gardens and stopping for lunch. Hidcote is managed by the National Trust to very high standards, and National Trust food is also very good. We are National Trust members so we don’t pay an entry fee and can come here as often as we like, we know the place really well.

Most of us would agree that a water lily flower is a thing of beauty, yet it is also ephemeral; it’s here today, gone tomorrow. Living things are all like that, from the tiniest bacteria to the largest blue whale. Life makes up for temporary fragility by it’s abundant reproduction and ability to adapt to new opportunities. Life is amazing!

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Image of the day – 10

The UK has helped with military and civil aid, and has often led the way in extending the range of weapons supplied.

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I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

England and Ukraine flags flying at Uphill

Uphill is a village just south of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset. At the top of a prominent hill is a partially ruined church and on the tower is a flagpole. Currently there are two flags flying, the red cross on a white ground of England, and the Blue and yellow of Ukraine.

There are many Ukraine flags flying in England, on flagpoles in small cottage gardens, to those on official buildings. England (and indeed the rest of the United Kingdom) supports Ukraine’s valiant battle against conquest by her belligerant and bullying neighbour, Russia. The UK has helped with military and civil aid, and has often led the way in extending the range of weapons supplied, as well as the uses to which it may be put.

We have given Ukraine arms and ammunition, and also permission to use it as they wish.

Slava Ukraini!

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