Netley Abbey And Southampton Water

[poliphilo]

In 1969, when I was 18, I made a sort of a pilgrimage to Glastonbury. Starting from my home in Tonbridge, I walked all the way through Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire, then up into Somerset.  I was on my own, slept in the open and refused all lifts.  About halfway through I hit Southampton Water and, having spent a rainy night with my feet in a puddle, took a day out to rest, visited the ruins of Netley Abbey and spent the morning or afternoon (I forget which) dossing on a piece of open ground, looking out to sea. 

I knew the wedding photographs were going to be taken at the Abbey and I sort of hoped I'd be able to recognise the recreation ground where I'd done my chilling- and I did; it 's right next to the church hall where we had the reception.

I was expected  to wear a suit to the wedding. Suits are not me. As soon as we got to Netley I took my jacket off, opened my top button and wrapped the tie round my head like a bandana.






 

Comments

[mummm.livejournal.com]

How lovely! It looks like a great place to chill. :^)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It is.

I kept escaping from the disco to breathe in the sea air, walk along the beach- and take pictures.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous bit of Romanesque vaulting. Thank you for posting that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Netley is closed to the public most of the time. As a member of the wedding who had drifted off from the main group I had it all to myself.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Can you see the green of envy through my words. Lucky you.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Thank you. I miss England!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's more to come.....

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Three very different pictures, but don't they make a wonderful sequence!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think they tell a story- though I'm not entirely sure what it is.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

That's a fine, brooding picture of sea and sky.

It's fun to imagine you with a tie bandanna.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that as much as I love the photo of the sea foam on the pebbles, what I really wanted to see was Tony with his tie around his head.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I probably looked like a twit.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I kept dodging out of the venue to take pictures as the sun went down.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I think I need to get off the beaten track in England far more often than I do. I have a whole list of places I've seen in your wonderful photos.

What wonderful perspective in that first picture!

And the sea looks sculpted in the evening light in the third.
Lovely!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

We were driving home through the Cotswolds yesterday and every side road had signposts pointing to villages with wonderful names and I wanted to go down them all!

[oakmouse]

Photo #2? Wonderful.

(They're all good. But #2 makes me want to be in England again.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't been in my wedding finery I'd have taken off my shoes and socks, rolled up my trousers and gone for a paddle.

[oakmouse]

Yes, exactly what that shot makes me want to do!

[algabal.livejournal.com]

The second picture is beautiful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was one of those spur of the moment things. I think it's my favourite of the set.

pebbles

[(Anonymous)]

I really like that pebbles photo. What camera was it taken with?

I am Mike's friend in Japan, Jason (jasoncollin.org)

Re: pebbles

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hi, Jason, & thanks.

I use a Nikon Coolpix 4600