Amelia's photos

St Andrew is remarkable for having a tower that is detached from the rest of the church. The two sit together on a mound above the road. The south side of the graveyard has been largely cleared of headstones, but there are some fine 18th and 18th century ones that line the path. The round tower is doubly attractive; not only is it free standing, but it is topped by a little 18th century conical cap with tiny gables and a spike.

This photo was taken on a very cold but still morning on the first day of Advent. The bridge in the background is the main crossing point for this fjord.

The thin ice forming in the harbour seemed to be forming plates with melted sections in between. The colours come from the sky and the reflections of the nearby Hummeren Hotel.

Construction video can be found here: www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Queensferr+crossing+you+tube&&view=detail&mid=45F9F5CB7A627992AFFB45F9F5CB7A627992AFFB&rvsmid=2F42583FFBA41DFA90A72F42583FFBA41DFA90A7&fsscr=-1650&FORM=VDMCNR Those with keen eyesight may be able to spot HMS Queen Elizabeth in Rosyth on the left hand edge of the photo.

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These pipes are used for the drilling in the oil industry. They are coded for size, and the markings remind me of old variable resistors. :)

Felice Varini's 'anamorphic illusion' at the Cardiff Bay Barrage. To find out more about it, here is the link: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6530989.stm

Chollerford Bridge is a stone bridge that replaced an earlier medieval bridge crossing the River North Tyne[1] at Chollerford, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1785 by Robert Mylne after the previous bridge had been swept away in the great floods of 1771.

This morning we had 2 degrees of frost and the water in 2 buckets outside the back door had frozen. By the afternoon it was thawing quite quickly so it was easy to get 2 discs of ice out. When they were propped against a flower pot the results looked interesting. In the evening I placed a torch behind the 2 ice circles and this was the effect.