In 1998 I stayed a week in Wells, in Somerset. I visited Glastonbury, climbed the Tor. I walked the Mendips. I visited Cheddar, famous for cheese… and explored the caves there. I took some 72 photos of those caves (2 x 36 exp films, back in the day). Here are a few, quality not digi-perfect (these are scans)
Sept 1998
Sept 1998
Sept 1998
Sept 1998
Maybe one day I’ll go back to Cheddar… with a digital camera and take 700 photos more
crispina kemp 
These are beautiful Crispina!
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Thank you. They’ve been hidden in my photo album for them past 20 years, always with intent to go this. Finally done.
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Amazing place and pictures.
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It was a week to remember. Cheddar gorge is itself is small when held against similar in America. Yet I remember walking up it one early morning, with thick mist wafting down, roaring around the bends with a sound I imagined a dragon’s breath. THese images I’ve since used in my writing.
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Hope you can visit again
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Yea. Me too
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👍
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Wow! What a cool place to visit. And I don’t doubt with a digital camera you’d take 700 more…😉
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I always was click happy.
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I totally understand that as I’m afflicted with the same malady.
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Always more photos abandoned than used. And that situation has only increased with digital photography
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Tell me about it. I am getting good at purging the duplicates and blurry (unless it’s a cool blurry)
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I must do that on the phone. It’s already got massive
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Seriously. Sometimes I take 12 pictures of the same thing. Smallest variation…. Clean. Up!
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Shen laughs at me cos I always take at least two, and often many more.
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Haha! I’ve no doubt. I do the same.
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That’s just to make sure I’ve got the shot
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Of course!
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And processing the photos from this morning… 6 exactly the same. But the wind was blowing. I had to be certain.
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Do you at least discard the others? My BIL will keep all 27 pictures of a sunset… Ugh
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I keep them all. At least, I keep them on the memory card, I delete from the download… mostly
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Oh my goodness… I empty my cards when I upload to the computer. Then I filter and try to get rid of many. It becomes too much for me.
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I’m pilotting a new system now 🙂
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That so?
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Yea. Transfer the originals, but delete them after edit… cos they’re on the cards anyway.
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Right.
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🙂
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YOu should see the series that’s Breydon Bridge opening to allow a boat through. IT goes on foreever.
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Crazy clicker!
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🙂 I know
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Fabulous, Glastonbury is on my list of places I really want to go to…
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I must return I really, really must return
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What blew my mind about this:
THERE IS A PLACE CALLED CHEDDAR!?
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The cheese in named after the place. The cheeses are left in the caves to mature
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Never knew! Maybe I should try some real Cheddar from Cheddar sometime, though I bet it’s hard/expensive to get over here.
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It’s the most common cheese in UK, sold as mild and medium and mature and extra mature. Quality varies. But they’re not allowed to label it as Cheddar unless Cheddar is where it’s made
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Oh, interesting. We have Cheddar here, too, but it’s basically “yellow cheese” is cheddar.
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We have more than one yellow cheese.
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I think we do too… but I think Cheddar describes a large amount of them.
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Certainly does with ours too. But there are others (Wensleydale, Cheshire, Caerphilly etc) which are hard, crumbly cheeses, not suited to cooking
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Never heard of those. Heard of the Cheshire cat, though.
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🙂
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