The last few days have been quite hectic, but I wanted to put a quick blog post together before I embark upon the next leg of the journey.
It all started last Sunday at the Sywell Great War Airshow. The star items on the billing were the Avro Lancaster pair, made only possible by the fact that the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has brought its aircraft (the only other example airworthy in the world today) to the UK on tour. Sadly, the wind was pretty ferocious on the day itself and neither of the Lancasters was able to get airborne from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire as a result.
Despite their absence, an excellent day was still had by all, even if the wind made it a tad trickier than usual for photography!
Hangar 11 Collection owner Peter Teichman is seen bringing down the curtain on the Sywell Great War Airshow in his Hawker Hurrican IIb, best known as “Pegs”.
The very next morning we set off for a short getaway to Kent – an area of the country in which I’ve spent very little time.
Dymchurch was our base for the four days of our stay, and the beach was just gorgeous and was virtually deserted.
The virtually empty beach at Dymchurch (phone pic).
On Tuesday we rode on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway – a 15-inch gauge working railway with a fleet of one-third scale steam and diesel trains.
No.10, Doctor Syn, pulls into the station at Dymchurch, Kent.
We alighted at Romney Sands, where the beach was equally nice but the sea very distant (and the sand between the nice part of the beach and it rather less pleasant!).
Chasing bubbles on the beach at Romney Sands.
Wednesday was spent at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. The highlight was probably the safari park tour in a truck, albeit it did feel as if animals were rather few and far between in certain locations throughout the site.
Red Lechwe Antelope seen from one of the trucks during the safari tour at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.
The journey home was broken up by a stop off at the 900-year old Leeds Castle, billed as being “The loveliest castle in the world”. Now, I don’t know an awful lot about castles, but this really was quite special, and the combination of blue skies and fluffy clouds made for some quite striking images.
“The loveliest castle in the world”? Quite possibly!
As we concluded our tour of the castle, a wedding ceremony was just about to get underway – albeit not in the main building. Can you imagine getting married somewhere like this? Talk about the stuff of fairy tales!
And that was that! Apologies for the rather brief nature of the post, but, as mentioned last time, I head off to China today to crew for the Twister Duo at two airshow out there.
I get back on 16 September, so if you need to get hold of me to book a wedding photography, family photography, event photography or commercial photography appointment in the meantime, I imagine doing so via email will be easiest (see Contact Us).
Take care,
Karl
