John Sheldon's photos

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 13. How do you take your dog home without realising that it is not on its lead?

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 12. This was going to be a play on red and green, those famous opposites on the colour wheel. But the result was hideously aggressive so I chose a softer, sepia rendition instead.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 11. The dreamy angle of the flower’s head suggested a low contrast, unsaturated, unsharpened approach.

… you can always travel to any place in the world with a book. Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 10.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 9. Graylag geese on Poynton Pond, Cheshire.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 9. An avenue of trees (Lime, I think) in Poynton Park, Cheshire, towards close of day.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 9. Hydrangea and Stonecrop blooms that coloured the garden during 2019.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 8. An area that until 1935 was part of the Vernon Pits in Poynton, Cheshire, part of the area’s 150 year history as a coal-mining settlement. Now it is pasture land for sheep. And the air is good to breath.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 8. Standing hard and gritty in this soft Cheshire landscape of sheep pasture and trees is the little brick building that was used for storing gunpowder when this area was part of the Vernon Pits – part of Poynton’s 150 year history as a coal-mining settlement. (“In t’olden days this were all mines…”) Mining here ended in 1935 (so no, neither Margaret Thatcher nor Arthur Scargill can be blamed) following a period of decreasing yields and high drainage costs.