Light, shade and reflections

A view over the fields of Wigley Farm (extreme left) on the west side of Sheffield. I liked the soft light in the middle distance on this bright but hazy morning. The city centre is visible through the haze on the right of the photo. The prominent house just right of centre is Castle Dyke Lodge, formerly Hoyle House on old Ordnance Survey maps. Just in front of the house, in the newly harvested and harrowed fields is a small, dry valley, possibly initiated as a melt-water stream at the end of the Devensian glacial period, but no longer having any flowing water, except as a smaller feeder to a pond in the grounds of Castle Dyke house, hidden in the trees.

Autumn colours in the Limb Valley on the south-west side of Sheffield.

A view of the Roman Baths, Bath.

The splendid dining room in the Regency period Assembly Rooms, Bath.

The Octagonal Room in the Regency period Assembly Rooms, Bath.

Looking up at one of the chandeliers in the Balloom in the Regency period Assembly Rooms, Bath.

Orange copper beech leaves translucent in the early summer sunshine. Botanical Gardens, Bath.

Orange copper beech leaves translucent in the early summer sunshine. Botanical Gardens, Bath.

The mountain of Ben Tianavaig on Skye rises out of the sea in the beautiful misty evening light, viewed from Temptation Hill on Raasay.

Sunlight reflections and dappled patterns in shallow water at the ferry terminal at Sconser, Skye.

Sunlight reflections and dappled patterns in shallow water at the ferry terminal slipway at Sconser, Skye.

I loved the back-lit reeds shimmering in the vast expanse of the Westwood Marshes at Walberswick, Suffolk.Tricky to capture in a photo, however!

I was intrigued by the light and reflections on the underside of this pan on the draining board of my kitchen. The smooth surface has the distorted reflections of a silver birch tree in my garden.

I loved the green translucency of this sunlit indoor plant.

I loved the green translucency of this sunlit indoor plant.

Winter sunlight illuminates the trees in the Limb valley and Whirlow Brook Park, Sheffield.

Winter sunlight illuminates the trees in the Limb valley and Whirlow Brook Park, Sheffield.

Winter sunlight illuminates the trees in the Limb valley and Whirlow Brook Park, Sheffield.