Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

Cliff top, Sussex, UK

The Beachy Head lighthouse, viewed from the clifftops, Sussex, UK. It was built in 1902 and replaced an older lighthouse, the Belle Tout lighthouse, that was located on top of the cliffs. The older lighthouse could not always be seen in fog or when low clouds covered the cliff tops, a serious impediment to the function of a lighthouse.

Looking up the Cuckmere river from the beach, Sussex, UK. The river separates the cliffs of Seaford Head on the west from those of the Seven Sisters to the east. This is at low tide, when the river can be crossed by wading. At high tide it becomes an impassable barrier and the only way forward is a walk upriver to the nearest bridge, a detour that adds at least a mile and a half to the hike.

The view of the Seven Sisters cliffs looking across from the fisherman's cottages above the river Cuckmere. Sussex, UK.

A European Peacock butterfly a long way from home. In the last few years these have appeared in the Montreal area, thousands of kilometres from their native territories in Europe. They are now well established and seem to be here to stay.

Stained Glass Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, UK

A pint of Harvey's Sussex Bitter, in the Old Bell Inn, Rye in Sussex. The Old Bell dates to 1390. Harvey's is brewed across the county in Lewes.

A spotted orchid growing on Edburton Hill, South Downs, Sussex.

The ruins of Bramber castle, Sussex, UK. A castle was built on this site in 1070, shortly after the Norman Conquest, by William de Braose, first Lord of Bramber. It was probably a wooden structure replaced over the years by a stone tower and curtain wall. The last male heir of the de Braose family died in 1326, and the castle has been falling down ever since until now very little is left. Its strategic position still commands fantastic views of the surrounding countryside.

Perhaps one of the most photographed views in Canterbury cathedral, the intricate fan vaulting of the Bell Harry tower (Central tower), completed in 1498. The name “Bell Harry” refers to a bell given to the cathedral by Prior Henry of Eastry in 1288. Fan vaulting is a predominantly English architectural innovation, and for scale, the central shield (which is a trap door) is about five feet, or roughly 1.5 metres in diameter. The tower is about 75 metres (250 feet) tall. Canterbury cathedral was founded by St. Augustine in 597. It was vandalized by Danish invaders in 1011, destroyed by fire in 1067, other parts destroyed by fire in 1174, and badly damaged by an earthquake in 1382. It has been variously rebuilt, added to and improved for centuries. More remarkable given that the builders were working without the benefit of the laws of mechanics, at least in a formal mathematical sense. Although they must have understood how forces etc. work for their unsurpassed buildings to remain standing. (Cell phone, and heavily cropped so resolution could be a lot better).

They painted, he paints over.

A thick-legged flower beetle on, perhaps not surprisingly, a flower. South Downs, Sussex, near Pyecombe.

A gated pleasure pier, locked and sealed. The Palace Pier, Brighton, early in the morning.

Brighton, fish and chips on the seafront, going in style.

A tight cluster of recently hatched garden spiders.

A duskywing butterfly.

A bullfrog tadpole. Quite large but still no legs.

A bridge over the mill pond, St Bruno Park. Somewhere there is a Dalmatian dog hiding in the photo.