Self-isolating is not new. Self-isolating is one of key actions that lots of people are taking to avoid the spread of Coronavirus today. Many people seem not to know the story of Eyam in Derbyshire? Eyam is 20 miles from where I was brought up in Derbyshire. We were told the story of the elf sacrifice of the people of Eyam in 1665/1666 at School and Sunday school. I don’t think we expected the need to self-isolate would return in the 21^st century!

The text below is from the Eyam Museum website.

“In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London, that he was to make into clothes for the villagers. He unwittingly triggering a chain of events that led to 260 Eyam villagers dying from bubonic plague – more than double the mortality rate suffered by the citizens of London in the Great Plague.

Between the first death and the last, the villagers set an extraordinary and enduring example of self-sacrifice by sealing off the village from the surrounding areas to prevent the disease spreading.” So self-isolating is not new.

Eyam Museum https://www.eyam-museum.org.uk/

BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-350640710046a3

We normally publish our photographs on our posts, however we thought that this might be of interest too. the two images below are free to uses ones from Google images. WWW.Compassphotography.co.uk

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Sunny in Suffolk

Friday was sunny in Suffolk, a good day for taking photographs. My first port of call was the beautiful church of All Saints at Crowfield. The church is now in the middle of nowhere, a mile or two from the village. Presumably at one stage there was a settlement nearby. The church has the only timber-framed chancel in Suffolk. It really is unique. You approach the building down a lane behind a long pink cottage, which was once the manor house. For more information have a look at the Suffolk Churches Website. http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/crowfield.htm

I then set out to go across country to Orford. This cross-country drive is a real joy, though there was lots of evidence of excess water in the fields and running on to the road. Along the way there are lots of winding lanes and thatched cottages to look at. Two cottages caught my eye. They were both in Easton and both were small round, thatched cottages. They were not next to each other but along the same road.

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My final port of call was back in Essex at Chappel to photograph the railway viaduct and call in at the East Anglian Railway Museum!

I hope you enjoy the images from sunny in Suffolk. More images from this trip can be found in the latest images section on our website. See more of our images at WWW.Compassphotography.co.uk

Some people say don’t go to Paris in August! They say this because all of the Parisians have left for their month on the beaches of France. For me, looking round Paris in the warmth of August with less Parisians is an advantage. I captured 595 images in three days and am loading some of them onto our website in four separate galleries.

Two galleries, “Classic Paris” and “Paris off the beaten track” are already there to view. Paris by night and Panoramic Paris are work in Progress. Four images are attached. One image from each gallery. Click here to view straight to the Parisian Galleries

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The image selected from the “Off the beaten track” gallery shows some graffiti on a building visible from the basin de la Villette, shot from Quai de la Marne. I actually think it looks like one of our Politicians. Does it remind you of anyone?

The “Classic Paris” gallery shows the image of the Eiffel Tower captured from the top of the Tour Montparnasse. It allows you to view the spans of both the Palais de Chaillot and the Ecole Militaire, with the Eiffel Tower between them. The height of the Tour Montparnasse allows the viewer to appreciate the scale of these monuments.

The Quai des Orfèvres is the image selected from the “Night time Paris” gallery. Captured from the Pont Saint Michel, this is the Quai that featured in the Maigret stories. It is police headquarters in Paris! Nice picture though!

“Paris Panoramas” provides a view of the city from outside the Basilica of Le Sacré-Cœur, one of the highest points in Paris

I used my Sony SLT A65 with the Tamron 16-300 lens to capture these images

New images on website

New images on website. We have just updated our website. There are new images of a day out on the River Thames. There are a number of new image galleries from different interesting places on the Adriatic coast of Croatia.

The two images below are samples of images. Use this link to click on our latest images page. Then click onwards to the pages where we display the image galleries. Have a look at the images and get back to us.