New gate at Worsbrough Dam

An afternoon walk around Worsbrough Dam (to blow the cobwebs away).  I'd been working on stuff to do with Jan's funeral in the morning - her Memorial Photo Card and also the words that I will speak at the ceremony. I've done well in getting as many photos onto the card as I could, but inevitably when it's an A4 folded card it has limitations and in the end I chose to focus on Jan's early year, Jan the traveller and Jan the dog lover.  I managed to fit an extract of one of her prints - the one she did when we all went to stay with Merlyn Chesterman in Devon, which was a woodcut.  I decided I'd  put the link to our JWJ Printmakers Flickr site on the card, so people could see more of her work as I had some of her images in my archive, but then got well and truly bogged down with accessing the site as it's several years since I added anything and the password I had written down wouldn't work.  So from that point on I just seemed to go round in circles as it also didn't seem to be sending my emergency log-on code back to my phone.  At which point Mike rang with details of the funeral, so we chatted for a bit and he was clearly very happy with the discussion they'd had with the funeral director.  So time for a walk to get all the stuff out of my head - it always helped me to walk things off!

So back to Worsbrough.  Ive never seen the water level so low and after talking to one of the fishermen I learnt that they had deliberately reduced the level so they could do work in the vicinity of this newly planted gate.  Apparently the bank was being undermined by Crayfish, so they needed to control this infestation and renew the bank.  I'm guessing that this new gate will lead onto a newly constructed pathway around the edge of the water and time will tell if it will just be for the fishermen or for everyone. 

An evening catch up with GG who had been working on images from her latest trip to Leeds - some more really interesting pattern and shape images taken on her walk, this time from some of the arcades and finally a couple of alternatively seen street photos that imaginatively tell a story, which I really like.  I feel my own image making has come to a stop at the moment - too much going on in my head!