thanks Stuey

thanks for the comments, there used to be more but they were taken for spares i believe by an aircraft museum. at the moment there is also a Canberra, a Meteor, and a De Havilland Dove helicopter left,all in various levels of dereliction. they were going to be part of a small museum but it ran in to difficulties and never got off the ground (no pun intended)

had a trip to Stratford and called in at Long Marston airfield on the way home to see the few derelict aircraft there. as there was nobody around unable to get in close to them but will go back earlier in the day with the hope of getting permission to get inside their fenced off area.
some processed in various ways

Alms Houses



Alms Houses 2



Stratford Parish Church organ



Colin P Witter lock, Stratford



Colin P Witter lock, Stratford (2)



Entering the Lock



Stratford on Avon Parish Church





Long Marston Airfield

Avro Shakleton



B&W version with crop.



Unknown(to me) derelict aircraft



Take 2



Derelict aircraft interior



Interior 2



Interior 3

thanks to all for the comments, i must admit i was pleased with the outcome of the processing and will definitely use it again, may experiment using some of the mono presets as a start to see what happens.

thanks smeggy, the object of the exercise was to try and end up with a very natural appearance. blended together in Photomatix using the "natural" or "enhanced" preset as the starting point.

thanks Rob, actually i tell a lie i took them yesterday, been a long couple of days. i think the subject lends itself to the use of bracket(HDR) shooting, plan on doing a "50 Village Church" project using only whatever natural light they have. i find they are very calming to work in, cool and quiet, plus some of the villages could have other photographic gems, you never know.

took these today, a couple of village Churches, natuaral light only so used bracketing to get as much as i could out of it. this village was formed from 2 parishes in 1935

St Andrews, Eastleach (was Eastleach Turville)










St Michael and St Martins,Eastleach (was Eastleach Martin) this is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust







processed with Photomatix and final tweaks in photoshop

as you can see wonderful sky, went with the intention of getting shots of Painswick Church spire poking through the mist, could not even see Painswick so just had stroll around the common.




Rudge Hill nature reserve, Cotswold way

The rest are a mixture of plant life



















the light was rubbish so ended up using the 70mm macro function mostly, nice to see that Spring is on the way though.

are you with AOL by any chance i get similar problems now and again at the moment it is not happy with the new flickr set up. sometimes re installing the software sorts it out but even that has not helped with flickr

Lowepro AW300 Slingshot,when i want everything including 170-500, Think Tank Retrospective 30 ,everything minus the Sigma, Retrospective 10 ,for travelling light, Lowepro Rezo 70 for ultra light usually when out with she who does not understand why i need "to take so long to take a picture".
Think Tank bags in Pinestone, Lowepro in Black.