We are exhibiting in a group photographic exhibition which has been organised for the Somerset Showcase day in Axbridge and will continue through September on Friday evenings and weekends. Ngaio and I are sharing St Jude's Studio. Most of the later half of August has been taken up with preparing for this.

A warm day in early September. Not yet autumn but summer is definitely winding down. These from the digital but actually we went to photograph the beeches (see Ngaio's posting for today).

Giving an impression of the landscape here requires careful composition. We've tried several times but have never been satisfied with the result. These are the best so far, at least they make some attempt to convey the contrast between the softness of the grass blanket and the bare, broken rock.

Looking up and to the right from our usual parking spot at Charterhouse, we have often noticed a fine stand of beech trees. Closer inspection reveals a magnificent grove of mature trees whose broad and twisting branches spread out fusing together in order to support their great weight, creating a spacious environment beneath suffused with dappled light that shifts about as the canopy moves in the near constant breeze.

Lensless photography on Weston Pier using a zone plate. A zone plate is a pinhole at the centre of several minute concentric rings. For a more detailed description, see the Zone plate page on Guillermo Penate's website.

There's an interesting diffraction flare on the "Weighing machine" image - at full resolution it appears as a series of concentric spectral rings. Obvious really.