*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.07.05 ***

Thanks, I have reloaded my pictures, should be OK now. I see them on my phone.

A couple of iPhone shots Newmarket races and Richard Ashcroft.

Nice, you've captured the tranquility here, it looks very peaceful.

Since 1869

Over this weekend we have dance and song festival, tradition continuing from 1869. Dance festival was on Thursday and Friday, today was march from city center to singing ground near sea coast, about 5km. There were about 20 thousand participants, I was at starting point with my camera and tail of procession started to move 4,5 hours after start, it reached singing ground after 6 hours. It was raining most of time quite strong, but this did not spoil peoples mood, all in procession and viewers along the road were very cheerful, bands and singers kept mood up. Overall it was quite emotional event. Today is short 3 hour singing festival but tomorrow it continues whole day.
I had my OM-3 camera and 3 lenses, managed to change them during rain breaks so got different perspective shots. I was quite happy that my camera was weather proof and I did not had to worry about rain, on plus side is also that my camera was now cleaned up from mud it got from previous rock camp weekend.
Selection of some moments below, SOOC:

Yep, we're well into the monsoon season (i.e. summer) here in the North West of England now. The reservoirs are still pretty empty though, which might be as much to do with the management of them more than anything else (they seem to be decommissioning some of the smaller ones around here and one of the larger ones has been deliberately kept low so they can rebuild the dams at either end).

Sorry to hear your Olympus is showing signs of failure in its weather resistance. My Olympus E-M1 MKII accompanied me through my first round of The Wainwrights, shrugging off some horrendous weather without issue (a Panasonic lens once got some water behind its front element, but that wasn't the fault of the camera). This got to the point where I eventually never bothered putting it away, even when it was pouring down all day, it just sat on its sling strap getting drenched. It was quite marvellous how it survived many years under horrible conditions.

Eventually, it did show some signs of failing when, during a walk up and around Pendle Hill of all places in persistent drizzle, the inside of the viewfinder steamed up after a few hours, so I guess they all fail eventually, although it did recover from that incident and I was a bit more careful with it afterwards.

With my other cameras I've always been a lot more wary, I don't think I'd trust either of the Fuji's in wet weather at all. The Nikon's feel like they'd take a moderate shower, but I wouldn't want to push it with either of them.

Fighting photo, left side vs right side. Great!

Great shot of couple, but current framing seems to be bit off, too much focus on bottom left, maybe better if cropped to this area.

These action shots for me.

Love this shot, swirls of clouds and sheeps.

These are my favorites, first shows well how steep the hill is, from other shots it is not easy to comprehend. And the sunsets are just sublime.

Nice set,
Great to get back to the UK for a visit.
What are those white cubicles in the church ?

He's certainly pondering something !

Thanks, I didn't have more time to stick around to see what else was happening

Yes that dress was short, but at 33°C perhaps a good choice :-)

Nice set.
Steve, these were the ones I wanted to pick too :-)

This one is difficult to figure out, but it keeps you looking, at it to try and understand what is happening. Nice one.

Some great shots. My fave.

Wonderful shots. One of them.

Quite some wedding, with all those tables!

Elf and safety, is a bit lacking in the first two shots.

This is my favourite shot from this set. The flowers just add a nice dash of colour.

Lovely calming picture.

Our Summer is hot, hot hot, so far. Yours looks liveable.

We sweltered down in Newmarket and Rye.

I have never been able to trust weather sealing, I remember those DPR posts, with pictures showing various Olympus cameras having a shower filled me with dread.

I liked the colourful traditional costumes a lot. Pity it was raining, and they could not be fully appreciated.

These are Box Pews, it is a feature of English protestant churches, and were popular between 1500-1900. Wealthy families would have their own cubicle. Looks like each farming family had their own box in this church. I have never seen the whole nave filled with these. There was little space for visitors to stand at the back.

Being in the middle of a marsh it has been restored many times. The last restoration was an almost total rebuild in 1912. It was once surrounded by water most of the year. Yes, a ceiling was removed.