Swan Lake

Fabulous trip to an antique emporium today for inspiration for my next project, a mad scientist/explorer's library. Think Phileas Fogg, Dr Frankenstein and Ripley's Believe it or not, and you'll get the general idea. No? Well you'll just have to wait and see then!

Quick trip to the Mere and the weather and birds were both very obliging. The main pic is of a cygnet who had just found the most inelegant way of re-entering the Mere (see flickr)

The extra is the dying seconds of the Mereside 50yd dash with the favourite just being pipped to the post and the rank outside winning by a long neck!

Dramatic and Dangerous Places to Photograph for the Terminally Unfit and Navigationally Challenged