I been having lessons

My friend Gem is a photographer. We go back a very long way...to the days when we both left a certain Government establishment (famous for introducing the magic roundabout in Swindon among other weird and wonderful roundabout systems) to have our first babies.

So I said come over and teach me some stuff and we'll have dinner out (very nice and we even took Barney...he turned the tables and paid for our dinners so it was all very good) and we exchanged useful stuff. She will be putting photos up on her new Flickr account soon..watch this space, they'll be good pics.

Anyway we went up to the churchyard and took pictures and here are some of them.
The Bell tower (again, I know, but I like it so much)

And the bell in it's tower with a phoenix like patch of sunlight on it...how romantic can you get?

And then there was this crypt. (Well, stairs leading down to an overgrown cellar doorway). Good enough for a quick shot?

Thing was, while I was fiddling about the sun shifted and shone into the doorway
and then there was this marvellous pattern of ivy and shadows and a shaft of sunlight shining right into the back of the crypt. Only just long enough to take a few pictures and then the shadows lengthened across the entrance.
And as if that wasn't enough, a dragonfly :)