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I promised

mnfaure that I'd post the rest of my "panoramas" of Cornwall, but I thought Tintagel required some explanation. Or maybe I just think it does and wanted an excuse to blab. Either way. Four years later, this is still one of the high points of the trip for me. A beautiful, rugged landscape and a beautiful release of endorphins.

Be warned: there are more photos behind the cut then are indicated by the labels.

We visited towards the end of our week there, and as may be evident from the pictures, it was a chilly spring day—although most of the weather we'd had in Cornwall up until then had been sunny and beautiful. It was actually perfect weather for visiting Tintagel, I think, which is quite a romantic and dramatic site. Plus, it's a sodding great climb to get onto the "island." I wouldn't like to do that in hot weather. As you'll be able to see in...

( Panorama #1. )

( Panorama #2. )

( Panorama #3. )

( Panorama #4. )

Live life, live love. Hope you had a really good day.

( Here's a pretty photo for you. )

I grew enamored of doing panoramas like this because I've always been a big fan of David Hockney's photographic assemblages. I like the rough cut feel of putting them together like this, the tension of the varying angles and light.

I was looking through the panoramas of my 2004 trip to Britain and realized that of the 10 or so panorama shots I'd done, every last one of them was of some place in Cornwall. Cornwall was just that kind of place, I guess. I have no idea if this is going to work since one of these is FREAKING HUGE, so I'll put it behind a cut and hope for the best.

( Panoramalama. )

sartorias has asked for pictures of castles and interesting buildings so her readers can take a virtual tour. As I live in the Westside of Los Angeles, where we tear anything interesting down to build more condos, there are very few compelling buildings within easy striking distance for me to photograph. (Unless you count the tiki house just around the corner from here. I'm mad for tiki! But I didn't know if others shared my affliction.) So with

sartorias's permission I'm posting some of my photos from somewhere else. I realized that all my shots of actual castles (taken with my Canon AE-1 not my digital) are "yet to be scanned" so here's the best I could do on short notice.

( Interesting places. )

Since April 20 is the two-year anniversary of my trip to England, I thought I'd better finish getting the photos scanned and posted on my photo page. This will definitely be the last vacation where I use the old Manual SLR. I love my Canon AE-1, but I do not like the scanning and fiddling. If I'd had a brain in my head, I would have had the photo lab save them onto a CD, but I left my brains at home that day. Such is life.

I don't take vacation snaps so much as I do photo montages, so be warned. There are a great many pictures in my albums (and I'm only two-thirds of the way done), but they do include everything through Tintagel:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sapelle/my_photos [link no longer works]

If you would like to read about the stories behind these pictures, these are the relevant blog entries:

Days Lost, Days Gained
High Points, Low Points
The Other High Point
The Stories Behind the Pictures
The Wyrd Woman of Chysauster
A Really Good Day
ETA: Quietude

If you'd druther not, here are a couple of panoramas:

( Panoramas de Tintagel )

Thanks to everyone for participating in The Pam's First Poll. At least as many people requested that I stop eating their brain as designated themselves craftspersons. Those who thought of themselves as an Artist-Craftsperson combo dominated.

Other news of the day: Since coming back from my vacation from Night Warrior on Monday, I've been cranking it out. I did 1,000 words today in not quite an hour and I'm probably 3/4 to 2/3 of the way through chapter 25. The ms. hit 104,000 words today. I'm still not as close to The End as I'd like to be, but I'm getting there.

Thought of the day: There must be a law of physics that says air conditioners can never and will never work properly—except, perhaps, in Bizarro World. The country is sweltering, this city is sweltering, but everyone in my office is swaddled in extra clothing and my legs, I think, are starting to form icicles. This is a new building and the AC has never worked right, and even though we just moved into the place in October, things are always breaking. We've begun to refer to it as the $50 million fixer-upper.

But it looks good. On the outside.

Cliché du jour: Their eyes held a silent plea.

Darling du jour: Behind us, all sound stopped except the occasional jangle of horse's tack, the shifting of hooves, the commentary of the crows.

I don't usually like to designate darlings because often they look pretty stupid in retrospect, but this one's okay. It's held up for a couple of days now, anyway. Next week, it may look stupid.

Picture of the day

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This is a panorama of the Cornish moors near St. Just, taken last year. I hope you can see it all scrunched up like this. I'll know once I post this sucker, won't I?

This was my last vacation taken with a manual camera. I love my manual camera, but I still haven't got all the photos scanned in and posted at my photo site. I should have had the damned things saved to disk when I developed them, but I'm such a little fluffy head... la di da la di da...

If you want to see more of my pix of England, you can visit them here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/boneandsteel/albums/72157617867686631

And if you want to read me blah blah blahing about the day this photo(s) was taken, you can go here:

http://pjthompson.dreamwidth.org/429555.html

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