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A slightly surreal dog-walk this morning.

Several key Cambridge University indoor locations are now on Google Streetview, including the chapel where we got married. Nice!

I posted this a couple of years ago, but I went back and tweaked the image now I know a bit more about monochrome processing. Also, since all my displays are now higher-resolution, the old one was looking blurry! You can read a bit of the story of the mill on the last post, though.

Where it all started, for me, at least. Spotted on a recent visit to the Whipple Museum.

Trumpington Meadows is a large new housing development on the southern edge of Cambridge. The houses are, well, modern houses. Perhaps a bit better than some. But the developers have done a nice job of gentle landscaping on the big field between the housing estate and Byron's Pool. It's become a favourite dog-walking area.

Last night, a combination of fog and sunset made it look particularly beautiful. One of those times when I kicked myself for not having a proper camera with me: these are iPhone shots.

And if you look carefully (or click for the larger version) you'll see that this is actually a photo of the M11:

I'm not often grateful to housing developers, so I feel I should give them credit when it's due!

Grantchester Meadows this morning

I was up a bit earlier than usual for a Saturday, but one of the good things about the year drawing on, for a somewhat lazy photographer like me, is that I'm much more likely to be up at sunrise in the winter than I am in the summer! This was a quick iPhone snap while walking Tilly.

...may want to install their lavatories elsewhere?

I picture a ne'er-do-well hobbit, probably an associate of Ted Sandyman's, who is seldom seen, but is believed to be the source of much unexplained mischief at St Catharine's College. He goes by the name of 'Slippery' Underfoot...