© Steve Lakey 2013
The Victorian Gothic Palace of Westminster, London.
© Steve Lakey 2013
The Medieval Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, UK.
© Steve Lakey 2013
Chatsworth House, Stately Home, Derbyshire, UK
This is my contribution to Weekly Photo Challenge, hosted by The Daily Post. This week’s prompt is Grand. Click here for more details and to view the other entries.
© Steve Lakey 2013
These photos were taken during a holiday to Majorca, Spain. I love how the coloured lights bleed into the blackness of the sea.
© Steve Lakey 2013
This is my contribution for the Weekly Photo Challenge, hosted by The Daily Post. Click here for more details and to view the other entries.
© Steve Lakey 2013
These photos were taken when out walking our dogs along a footpath in the Nottinghamshire, UK, countryside. We came across this field of Rapeseed – with its beautiful splash of colour and strong sweet fragrance, unique to this plant. Honey bees were buzzing around, attracted to its abundant nectar. I didn’t have my camera, so I took these shots with my iPhone 4.
© Steve Lakey 2013
This is my first contribution to Travel Theme, hosted by Ailsa at ‘Where’s my backpack?’ Please click here for more details and to view the other photos.
All photos © Steve Lakey 2013
If you’re ever in the village of Tattershall, Lincolnshire, UK, get ready to expect the unexpected!
It is a small village, home to 15th Century Tattershall Castle and early 16th Century Holy Trinity Church. Both well worth a visit. A couple of miles away is RAF Coningsby, home of the historic Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and Museum.
If you choose to visit the ‘Tattershall Park Country Pub and Kitchen’ for a meal, you should find a good atmosphere and enjoy the food. But it’s when you go to visit the toilet that you discover the unexpected!
I’d describe it as high-class rustic. Definitely bringing the outdoors, indoors! I couldn’t resist taking some photos with my iPhone 4. It’s the first (and probably last) time I’ve taken pictures in a public toilet. Fortunately, nobody walked in as I was taking the photos!
I’ve used Perfect Effects 4 to slightly sharpen the main image.
This is my contribution to Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post. Please click here for more details and to view the other pictures.
I took these images with an iPhone 4, while on a station platform on the London Underground (known as “The Tube”). I used iPhoto to give them a Black-and-White effect. I liked the look of the grainy images, so didn’t try and clean them up.
As I enjoy writing short fiction, the photos inspired me to write a 250 word story, which follows.
It was around Midnight when I first realised he was following me. A stranger, who looked slightly familiar. After taking in a West End Show and a meal with friends, we headed our separate ways. I decided to take the Underground. It was only a short walk to the nearest Tube Station, Leicester Square but I kept a brisk pace, not knowing what time the trains stopped.
I travelled down the 177 feet of escalators to the Piccadilly Line. This late at night, the station was surprisingly busy. The atmosphere seemed friendly and it was only when I got onto the Eastbound Platform that I began to feel uncomfortable. That prickly feeling of being watched.
The lights of the approaching train caused a few people to push up close behind me. I felt a hand grab my jacket. I broke free and stepped forward desperately hoping that the doors of the slowing train would open.
That’s when I saw him, or rather his reflection. A grinning man standing a few feet away, waving a wallet. Even before I felt my pocket, I knew it was mine. I was caught up in the throng leaving the train, as the doors slid open and was carried away from him. I saw him laughing, before he disappeared from sight.
Then he was standing next to me. I tensed, ready to grab him.
“I hope this is your wallet, sir! I’ve followed you from the restaurant in Chinatown. It was left on your table…”
This is my contribution for the iPhoneography Challenge: Black-and-White, hosted by Lens and Pens by Sally. Click the link for more details.
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Walk the Self-Talk 