Just returned from a quick trip to the UK. I’ve visited England more and more over the past several years, and while there’s always something new to explore, it’s begun to feel less foreign, and more like another version of home.
Sculptor Paul Day’s The Meeting Place, at St Pancras station in London.
One of my favorite walls in London’s Covent Garden, in Neal’s Yard.
Covent Garden’s Piazza.
Wandering in Kent, not far from where my husband grew up.
Leybourne Church, the site of a family wedding, in Kent.
Part of the reception area at St Julians club, in the heart of the Weald of Kent.
The wedding reception seating chart, written on a mirror.
I love the fisheye effect on leading lines of your piazza photo.
I love the photo of Kent countryside, it captures the air of contentment and also the love of privacy I found in rural areas of England.
Though I am not a lover of such effects as those given by the fisheye technique, it gives the Leybourne Church one that feeling of a scene prior to Alice slipping into Wonderland which is charming.
Lovely pictures 🙂
I love the photographs – they’re absolutely amazing! And I also love England. It’s a really special country. When I’m there I feel at home too. 🙂
Can’t wait to explore more of it.
Great blog you have here! Stunning pictures really *.*
Lovely pictures! They make me even more excited for my trip there in March of next year!
Love that first image.
As a traveler I have always wondered what combination of circumstances finally allows me to feel “at home” in a foreign location. Would you say that it was time or the familiarity of certain landmarks around you, or a combination of the two which has allowed you to think of England as more of a home?
It’s definitely due to passage of time, and returning to England the past several times to visit my husband’s family — rather than going to sight-see and explore — that has made the country feel more like home 🙂
As if I didn’t want to go to England badly enough! Beautiful pics.
Great post and photos! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I’m from Sussex originally, but on the Kent border, so I know the area well. Some lovely countryside round there.
Such an interesting country- so new and so old at the same time, always changing, forever timeless. Thanks for sharing these photos and your latest adventure.
Hah, the rural parts of the UK really are some of the best. You’re lucky you left when you did, the heatwave here is really taking its toll, ahaha. There seems to be a lot to do in the summer, contrary to what I first thought.
Great photos. I particularly like the English countryside. I hope you had a chance to have some scones and coddled (Sp) cream while you were there. Thanks for sharing.
They’re all great, my favourite one is the one with the family wedding 🙂
Unique fisheye presentation ! I love the UK, must return soon!
Just got an Olloclip for my i-phone today so I’m going Fish Eye crazy this weekend to try it out! Hope I get some photos as good as these, definitely inspired me!
You are making it very difficult for me not to go to Amazon.de right now and purchasing that handy lens attachment. Stop it! My frustration with England is the coin money. Tiny coins worth more than smaller coins, thin coins, fat coins, silver coins, two tone coins. As the line grew longer while I raked through my coin pouch the nice check out girl at the grocery store held out her hand. “It’s alright luv”, she said as I gave her my wallet. She quickly picked out just the right change. 😉
So pretty. the fish eye is done so very well 🙂
Thanks for sharing. I just recently learned how to use the fish eye technique. Now I really want to use.
How do you do this? I love a rounded world. Just beautiful. Peace and Ommm from the Temple
Thanks — it’s taken with the fisheye lens on the olloclip for the iPhone.
That’s it, I want one but until I get one I’m just going to gaze at your beautiful photos endlessly. Thanks x
England is simply wonderful! I haven’t been on 14 years, yet I still think of it often.
so pretty! love the fish eye perspective 🙂
How lovely.
Great photos! Looks amazing!
All these places look so gorgeous! My dream city to live in <3
Beautiful photos! I love the fisheye technique.