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Photographs of Cotswold Way Day 8: Seven springs to Cleeve hill

By Quintin Lake
May 26, 2010 //
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Tarmac lay-by, Yellow fields, Buzzing pylons, Sliced landscape, Bench with a view, Rolling landscape, Mobile phone tree, Farmer fixing fence, £25 for a sheep, Carved gatepost, Dandelion field, Mendip sunset

Looking up at the edge of field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead under a blue sky on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

Overhead power lines diagonally cross the Cotswold landscape of rolling hills and fields Ravensgate Hill in Gloucestershire, England.

Meadow of Dandelion (Taraxacum) and Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). Half seeded dandelion clock and parachute balls with Chosen Hill (R) and Nut Hill (L) visible in the distance Gloucestershire.

False Tree Mobile Phone Mast / Fake Cell phone Antenna Tower in English landscape.

Cleeve common hill at dusk near Cheltenham, Malvern Hills in the distance, Gloucestershire, England

Solitary tree at Cleeve common hill at dusk near Cheltenham, Malvern Hills in the distance, Gloucestershire, England

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Photographs of Cotswold Way Day 7: Crickley Hill to Seven Springs

By Quintin Lake
May 26, 2010 //
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Overheating car, Long Barrow, Devils chimney, Cheltenham lookout, Disused quarry, Layers of limestone, Nettled path, Cerb grass, Family bikers, Roundabout graphics, Car-park smokers

Electricity Pylon, suspension tower design set against a blue sky above a wheat field in early growth stage near Leckhampton Hill in Gloucestershire, England. The moon is visible above the copse.

Devil's chimney made from Lower Freestone above a disused quarry in Leckhampton on the outskirts of Cheltenham

Detail of rock strata at old limestone quarry workings at Leckhampton Hill, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

A couple admire the view over Cheltenham Spa town at the top of cliffs at Leckhampton Hill, Gloucestershire

Panoramic view of Cheltenham Spa Town from Wistley Hill

Grass explodes into life next to the curb stone of the A435 by the road at Seven Springs, Gloucestershire

The A40 , A436 roundabout at Seven Springs, Gloucestershire

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Pylon Love: In celebration of overhead power lines

By Quintin Lake
May 26, 2010 //
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Elegant structures contrasting with the landscape, drawing a line across the landscape, through space and across the sky. Our modern world’s lifeblood elevated above the fields below. Confidently honest in form and function so unlike this deceit in steel.

Electricity Pylon, suspension tower design set against a blue sky above a wheat field in early growth stage near Leckhampton Hill in Gloucestershire, England.

Overhead power lines cut diagonally across the Cotswold landscape of rolling hills and fields Ravensgate Hill in Gloucestershire, England.

Looking up at an Electricity Pylon, carrying overhead power line with suspension tower design set against a blue sky at Ravensgate Hill in Gloucestershire, England.

Overhead power lines diagonally cross the Cotswold landscape of rolling hills and fields Ravensgate Hill in Gloucestershire, England.

Electricity Pylon, suspension tower design set against a blue sky above a wheat field in early growth stage near Leckhampton Hill in Gloucestershire, England

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Dr Edward Wilson Antarctic Explorer contemplates a Horse chestnut tree, Cheltenham Spa

By Quintin Lake
May 26, 2010 //
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Dr Edward Wilson Antarctic Explorer contemplates a Horse chestnut tree, Cheltenham in the Long Garden in front of the Municipal Offices.

Dr Edward Wilson Antarctic Explorer contemplates a Horse chestnut tree, Cheltenham in the Long Garden in front of the Municipal Offices.

In 1910 he joined the famous Captain Scott on his National Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, but tragically both men died in March 1912 on the return journey.News of Wilsons death reached Cheltenham in February 1913 and a fund was set up to create a memorial to the explorer. The bronze statue shown was modelled by Scotts widow and was unveiled on 9th July 1914 by Arctic explorer Sir Clarence Markham. The inscription on the plinth of the statue reads – “He died as he lived, A brave true man. The best of comrades and the staunchest of friends.”

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Photographs of Cotswold Way Day 6: Cooper’s Hill to Crickley Hill

By Quintin Lake
May 26, 2010 //
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Antarctic Explorer Sculpture, Horse Chestnut, Wild Garlic, Coloured arrows, Sun cream, Cheese rolling hill, Picnicking couple, Hidden reservoirs, Expensive pub, Indian family BBQ, Golden sunset, Rough track home

Bank of wild garlic in flower next to the Cotswold way forming a regular geometry of leaves. Cooper's Hill Wood

The Malvern hills seen from Witcombe wood on the Cotswold Way, England

Birdlip Hill, Cooper's Hill & Nut hill (L to R) seen from Barrow Wake on the Cotswold Escarpment on the Cotswold Way

Cooper's Hill, Nut Hill & May Hill (L to R) seen from under a beech tree on Crickley Hill on the Cotswold Way

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Accidental sculpture: False Tree Mobile Phone Mast / Antenna Tower

By Quintin Lake
May 25, 2010 //
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False Tree Mobile Phone Mast / Fake Cell phone Antenna Tower next to the A40 at Charlton Kings

This disguised Cell “tree” aka mobile phone mast is located next to the A40 at Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England at the Offices of AlanDick which make these things worldwide.

There are no actual transmitters attached to the “Trunk” in this example which makes it appear all the more surreal in contrast to the Cotswold landscape surrounding it. Having looked into it is seems to be the prototype for their patent for an “Antenna Tower in the form of a Tree”

The details from the patent provide surprisingly entertaining reading:

“From a distance this arrangement provides an authentic looking tapering branch, without the necessity for complex forming of tubing.”

“The trunk may be formed by a metal tube, which preferably tapers, and the branches may extend through the trunk to be fixed to the other side either directly or via sockets.”

If you’d like to buy one for your back garden check out AlanDick Environmental Solutions

In the USA there is a “camouflaged” monopole, called a Monopalm maybe this one could be called “Obviouspruce”

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Figure from "Antenna Tower in the form of a Tree" patent

False Tree Mobile Phone Mast / Fake Cell phone Antenna Tower with additional white transmitter next to the A40 at Charlton Kings

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Images of yellow fields of rapeseed oil (canola) agriculture, Gloucestershire, England

By Quintin Lake
May 25, 2010 //
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Photographs of a field of  bright yellow (canola) rapeseed in flower under a blue sky in Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England. Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed and (in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola).

Rapeseed is grown for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel.

BBC Radio 4 Food Programme on rapeseed oil

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Field of bright yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) under a blue sky overlooked by a solitary house in woodland. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

Bright yellow field of rapeseed in flower (canola) Close up of flowerhead. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

Edge of a field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

Looking up at the edge of field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead under a blue sky on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

Ground eye view looking up in field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead under a blue sky on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.

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‘Holidays in Cubatão’ By Rubens Azevedo Film Premiere at the AA tonight

By Quintin Lake
May 19, 2010 //
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Holidays in Cubatão tells the story of an industrial landscape deep in the forests of Brazil through the eyes of an Australian who chooses this bizarre place to spend his holiday for no apparent reason.
The film was made in the fashion of the former Pascal Schöning’s Diploma Unit 3 and it has in its cast and crew five AA graduates: Chris Dukes, Quintin Lake, Julian Löffler, Isabel Pietri and Rubens Azevedo. More Info

Informa Cubatão News Article (In Portuguese)

A full gallery of documentary photographs can be seen here and making of photographs from the film here

Photography © Quintin Lake

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