Oxleas Wood is one of the few remaining areas of ancient deciduous forest in London dating back over 8,000 years. So never mind the Styrofoam, feel the age.
Bagpuss
To me this log looks like a cat, specifically Bagpuss (RIP). Log cat lol cat. Whiskers, one eye and ears. What more does a fevered imagination need?
It is a curious place and a dog walkers’ heaven despite the giant cat. Some of it really does feel 8000 years old. Despite being audibly sandwiched between major trunk roads (and thus with the obvious temptation for car-centric governments to make the drive to work and productivity quicker via a shortcut), and, despite the uneasy manicure of the ‘walks’, at this time of year the twisted leafless ancient trees makes it feel somewhere further away than it really is. To me anyway.
Get off the paths and there are some treats. Just behind the cafe we found this bench.
The Fuji is a bit big for the diminutive tripod I was carrying and this needed 1/2 second at f/8 (or f/11, can’t remember) and there is the tiniest bit of unsharpness here, though the discarded can of Guinness beneath the bench belies that slightly. Was somebody really sitting here drinking Guinness? Whatever, a top ten bench for the Knossers of Benches.
And of course there is always the d-i-c-h-o-t-o-m-y (love the word) between managed and unmanaged woodlands:
If you are the kind of council/land owner to erect a tasteful concrete-slab fence in 8000 year old woodland then I think you could have possibly foreseen that it might look a bit shit in context. Especially if you don’t maintain it.
This shot should have been in colour
White translucent carrier bags half filled with a deep turquoise/renaissance-ultramarine coloured liquid. I think. It was really hard to tell. Hopefully they’ll be there next time so I can do justice to them. The colour was so rich and seriously out of context.
The Dog was in heaven, except for one shitty boxer and his owner in funky gurly wellies. I didn’t like them and neither did The Dog and nor did the people at the cafe who were jumped upon (by the boxer).
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RT @skinnyvoice: New at deptfordvisons: If You Go Down To The Woods – Oxleas http://bit.ly/9lQ5li #photography #photoblog