CAMERA CAPERS

 Three of us from the Camera Club visited Polesdon Lacey today to take photos of their Christmas decorations.   It was a very very wet day, so we were glad we were going to be inside.   Only the ground floor was open, and I think we were told there were 14 Christmas trees.  So, enjoy them as much as we did. The following snowy scenes were laid out on a snooker table.  The scenes are all depicting the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".  The buildings and fir trees were origami and made with sheet music.  It was amazing and quite beautiful. On this tree, visitors could write their own Christmas message and add it to the tree. "Cheers" and a Happy, Healthy, and Peaceful Year in 2023 to all my readers.  

After a really wet November it was good to join the U3A coach trip to London on the 1st December.  Each year in December the Natural History Museum hosts the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition.  The exhibition did not disappoint.  Sadly I was not able to take photographs inside the exhibition, but you can see the exhibits  here . We had time after lunch to visit the Victoria & Albert Museum next door.  Angie and I had a look around the fashion through the ages exhibit and then a look around the shop - always interesting items for sale here. Back at the Natural History Museum, we spent some time taking photos in the huge entrance hall, and before making our way back to board the coach for home, we made a short detour along a side street for a spot of street photography. Hope - the Blue Whale skeleton who greets visitors to the Natural History Museum 25 metres long This ice age relative of the elephant roamed North America until 15,000 years ago Skeleton of an iguanodon - d