I saw Nick Drake...

[camus]

So, I took the pilgrimage to Tanworth-in-Arden, visited Nick's grave, and basically got pissed for two days at the local Inn...Nice...Think of "Vicar of Dibley", without all the twee shit.

Here is Robyn Hitchcock...not the best version of "I saw Nick Drake"



And here are some pics, just run of the mill stuff really.

The 14th C Church where he is buried:



The tree under which he is buried:



His unnasuming grave:



His unnasuming grave with whisps...Dunno what that is, I know what i like to think it is!



The Bell Inn, where I stayed, great place, lock-inns and so forth:



Full of "Local people" great characters: Sara, Uncle Monty and Pip the green-eyed-fat-hound.

[pitseleh]

nice one.. a long time fan of the mans work. beautiful artist.

is the song a piss take?

[camus]

is the song a piss take?

LOL,

I see where you are coming from, i'd say nah...more of an ironic (god I love you) take...

"All the strawberries in English weather"

"I saw Nick Drake, and he was fine..."

Loving...

[cameron]

Enjoyed these Kris. When I was there I walked round the whole churchyard and couldn't find his grave. However, I bumped into a nice old lady who showed me where it was. As you say, very unassuming headstone. 'Now we rise and we are everywhere' is written on the back. Name that tune.

The wisps of smoke are rather spooky, aren't they?

We were coming back from Birmingham and I remember parking outside the Bell. Didn't have time to go in, though.

C

[camus]

Yep, a similar little old lady showed me the way! I'm guessing it was the same old lady.

I name that tune in one - From the Morning

K

[David]

I love this song, but it's an oddly tinny version, isn't it?

That looks like a great pub. And, in fact, also a very nice tree.

[barrie]

That looks like a great pub. And, in fact, also a very nice tree.

Come on - It's the apparition that takes the biscuit.

[David]

That looks like a great pub. And, in fact, also a very nice tree.

Come on - It's the apparition that takes the biscuit.

No, you're right, it's a terrific apparition, but I can see right through it.

[camus]

No, you're right, it's a terrific apparition, but I can see right through it.

haha.

Seriously, I've no idea what it is. Certainly not a staged thing, that would have required props and maybe a propist.

[Danté]

Thanks for sharing these,

I find pictures of old churches fascinating, and the headstones.

Really enjoyed viewing your pictures.

Thank you

Tim

[marten]

Well captured. The grave is kind of how I imagined it - barely noticeable.

Take your time and you'll be fine
And say a prayer for people there
Who live on the floor
And if you see what's meant to be
Don't name the day or try to say
It happened before.

[juliadebeauvoir]

Very appropriate picture with ghostly going-on's at Holloween!
I think the tree is magnificent! I wonder what it looks like in Autumn. Are you in Autumn or still in summer?
I must now go look up Nick Drake...I don't know who he is but feel somehow that I should. Thank God for Wikipedia.

Cheers,
Kim

[Arcadian]

Kris,

Interesting place you visited. Comments to date are about the place, so what about the quality of your images ?

So let talk about your images - what do they need to make them stronger ?

I loved the church; the colour contrast between the rest rust roof and the slate roof is great. Unfortunately the church looks as if will topple over, it could of done with better orientation.

Your tree has magenta blooming - a sign of noise, ( an overheating sensor, poor quality camera/lens - perhaps you have a too High ISO ?)

The wisps are caused by lens flare , to overcome this choose another postion to frame the shot or use a lens hood.

The dog with green eyes .It is a comical image , and in a strange way it works, but generally you need to use red-eye reduction setting

Nice Inn, photographing signs in a image is always bad, as your eye tends to focus on the text and not on the image. Also the car entering the left side is distracting. Is the image about the Inn ? or the parked cars ? Again, another re-position to frame the shot may have helped here.

The graves with red flowers is compromised with distracting background -- use a shallow depth of field to control the subject matter of interest.

Some image you have foliage clipped ( the bane of photographers, like parts of cars,trees etc ) avoid these if you can.

Your images seem to be underexposed by a 1/3 of a stop. Do you want details in the shadows ?

I know you r next pilgrimage will be better. Thanks for posting these.

[camus]

Well a bad workman blames his tools and all that.

My camera is shite. Come on Santa, you can do it.