Watching The World Go By

by John Chivers

Title

Watching The World Go By

Artist

John Chivers

Medium

Photograph - Photo Print

Description

This is the wonderful Bourton-on-the-Water a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The village of Bourton-on-the-Water is known for its picturesque High Street, flanked by long wide greens and the River Windrush that runs through them. The river is crossed by several low, arched stone bridges. These arched bridges lending to Bourton-on-the-Water being called the "Venice of the Cotswolds".
The earliest evidence of human activity within the Bourton-on-the-Water area was found in the Slaughter Bridge gravel-spread, where Neolithic pottery (dated c. 4000 B.C.) was discovered. Moreover exavations of the Salmonsbury Camp give evidence of almost continuous habitation through the Neolithic period, the Bronze Age and throughout England's Roman Period (c. 43 to 410 A.D.). Ancient Roman pottery and coins discovered in the village itself give clear evidence of extended Roman occupation. By the 11th century a Christian church was established and the village had developed along the River Windrush much as it is today. Despite the long history of habitation almost every building is now of 17th century origin. The houses and shops in the village are constructed of the yellow limestone characteristic of the Cotswolds and they have the embellishments that make Cotswold architecture so picturesque: projecting gables, string-courses, windows with stone mullions and dripmoulds, and stone hoodmoulds over the doors.

The shot: Took on a rare blue sunny day in England, I was very lucky to have two old couples sitting relaxing 'shooting the breeze' which I feel really adds to the feel of the image. Because of the harsh afternoon sunlight I used multiple exposure not fully HDR as I'm not 100% liking of it's use, but for the brick work in order to get all the little important details I had to use three separately exposed photographs. I don't often do photography under such harsh photographic weather but the warm hot sunny day really works well..and I do not have images of rare English blue sky's in abundance.
To me this captures the beauty of summer/spring through Costwolds beautiful architecture, old lamp post and the wonderful couple relaxing watching the world go by :)

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May 8th, 2013

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