Oxford through a lens....

Just a sample of what Oxford is like from my perspective.
Photographs taken in the last couple of weeks.

1. Cornmarket street, one of the main shopping streets in Oxford -
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2. Broad Street, not far from cornmarket street.
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3. Traffic from atop the castle mound -
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4. College life - Oxford Union

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5. Christ Church College dining Hall -
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:wow: The last two are awesome!

Ohhhh... lovely!

I LOVE Oxford... I hope you don't mind if I post a few pictures I took last year in April when it snowed one Sunday morning.....




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Oxford seen from the Christ Church Meadow

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Merton College :love:

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That's the centre, with the Radcliffe Camera (part of the Bodleian library), and St Mary's Church.

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I love that you can get such a 'rural' view right in the city centre of Oxford! That's Magdalen College tower and a bit of Merton's back buildings looking like an English village scene :D


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This is a mischievous picture I am rather proud of - Oxford skyline from New College cloisters.... :D

Thanks for sharing those Klio! They are gorgeous. Oxford is so beautiful, and I especially love the architecture!

You bet..... I should really dig up a few of my old photographs and post them... I came to Oxford years ago and stayed for years, well beyond the time it took to get my degree (I still stay there as often as I can), and I shot most of my pictures with an old film-based camera.... I guess I'll just have to go and re-do a few of those.......


Kevin - have you ever taken pictures from the top of St Mary's? I just realise that I seem to have taken people there quite often (I rather like doing Oxford tours for visiting friends), but I never seem to have taken pictures myself! That's rather stupid..... Well, I guess there'll be a next time :D

Great photos Kevin and Klio:tu:

I wish I was there! It is such a beautiful place:) I especially love the shot of Merton College:p

Liking Merton is always a good idea.

:)

Kevin - have you ever taken pictures from the top of St Mary's? I just realise that I seem to have taken people there quite often (I rather like doing Oxford tours for visiting friends), but I never seem to have taken pictures myself! That's rather stupid..... Well, I guess there'll be a next time :D

I hope to do so, at some point in the Spring. Before Oxford gets clogged up with tourists. I love making a twit out of myself showing people around Oxford, it's just a pity rusty and co didn't have much time to spend in Oxford back in 2007. Anyway i made the most of today's ok weather. Snow on sunday and Monday apparently. I may venture out a bit further if oxford gets a light dusting of snow. Depending on how cold it is.

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Ohhh! There will be snow? I believe it when I see it! I lived in Oxford full time for 8 1/2 years and never managed to be there for snow that stayed on the ground for long enough for good pictures! And finally. last year I got lucky - although I am just a part-time Oxonian these days.

Well, if I get lucky that might just get me good pictures for my Christmas cards for next year... I used a few of my snow pictures from last April this Christmas, and I think they turned out rather nice. :)


I really like the view of ChCh from the gate to the meadow - it's not easy to take a good picture of the St Aldate's side of ChCh and make it look good, because St Aldate's is so busy.

I also love the picture of the archway. I am trying to guess where this is, but I am a bit stumped by it. Nuffield?


And isn't St George's Tower great? I love Anglo-Saxon architecture. :) It's pretty special. :) Its best side is from St Thomas's street, by the way. :)




Here two more of last year's snow pictures....

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That's the 'easy' side of Christ Church. It's so nice, you can't gt it wrong as long as you manage to hold the camera straight. Keven's other perspective is much more a matter of skill. :D


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and here is a favourite bit of the High Street. I love that tree. It just makes the picture so much better! :)

I remember that it snowed quite awesomely back in the 1980's when i was but a small boy. I remember getting lost in a snow drift lol

As for the St Aldates shot, that was pretty easy really. I picked the gates with the tom tower in the background as the focus of the image and then got a little bit of the street into it. That took me less than 2 minutes to compose and shoot. It helps if you have a visual idea of what you want beforehand, then it's a bit easier creating it with a camera.

I love the trees in Oxford, they always seem to be in the right place when it comes to the College buildings i.e.
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Anyway a bit of local action as it were -
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Poor old trees in St Ebbes church -

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Ohhh! The Wednesday market! :)

I always enjoy that - the veg stalls are wonderful. :D And I really like that picture. very evocative. :)

Thanks. Snow was pretty good, though as usual not a lot of it.
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I shall be adding more to this set over the coming days -
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Nice one.... I found myself having to spend as much time as I can in the library today - but it's really been rather nice .... snow in Oxford is SO rare!

I guess I'll have to go out to take a few pictures tomorrow....:)

Lovely pictures so far - can't wait to see what else you managed to capture. :)

I love all the pics you've posted. Especially the ones with snow covered trees and roads:tu:

Looking forward to more:)

Oxford looks gorgeous covered in snow!! :love:

Well, it's no longer entirely covered in snow, but here are a few more views....
I am afraid I always find a reason to take pictures of Oxford :love: - as does Kevin, it seems. :)


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Broad Street - the older bits of the actual town (as opposed to the part of the city which has been taken over by the colleges).

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My favourite bookshop - and the quaint little White Horse pub, almost overwhelmed by the power of Blackwells!. :)


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The sky over Oxford is sometimes full of various people and other creatures! You just have to remember to look up!


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St Mary Magdalen graveyard - a kind of tranquil island right in the centre - with traffic milling around it . :)


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I love it, because every year it has the very first flowers in all of Oxford - sometimes in the first week of January! :love:


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The view from one of the places where I work quite often. I love it how those grand buildings are just there all around you, as if it were the most natural thing in the world..... that's the Radcliffe Camera outside that window. :)


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And here's a view towards North Oxford, from another place where I tend to work almost every time I am around.... I like the way the sky looks in this.... :)

Oxford is very alluring and pretty.... You can't help but take photographs of it...

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Oh great... more snow! :)

great pictures..... the one I love best is that of the random people walking around on the meadow..... it reminds of some of those Dutch winter paintings. :)

Thanks and an oooooh - http://www.onearth.org/node/920

Very pretty.... but was this picture really taken just last week? It's been a while that I have seen so many cars parked outside Brasenose...

You should post the one of the snow cow. :p

I just love all your pictures, Kevin!!!!

Woah! Great pics again:D

Snow cow time -
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YAY!!!!!!! :clap:

oh, lol!!! fantastic!!!!! :rotfl:



.... and I guess that this is in front of the wall along the way to the river..... in the meadow.... where House people should keep cows ;)
excellent! :D

Snow cow time -
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Wow!:D

That is awesome:lol:

oh, lol!!! fantastic!!!!! :rotfl:



.... and I guess that this is in front of the wall along the way to the river..... in the meadow.... where House people should keep cows ;)
excellent! :D

Erm no, it's the wall where this gate is located -

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Ah! Got it. :)

Another little robin i found in Christ church meadow earlier today....

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ohhhhh... those are beautiful pictures! :)

Excellent.... :)

Thank you.

Some from earlier today -
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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Those are pretty good images.

Wow Kevin, those are all great:)

Especially the snaps of the robin and the recent photos number 3, 4 and 5:):tu::tu:

Thanks.

More.....
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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I went there on a whim today. I concentrated on one area, i will be going back in the spring and covering more of the parks. As the things i love plant wise aren't about yet.


1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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The entire set on flickr can be found here. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/8076308@N06/sets/72157614148981214/)

Wow those are beautiful pictures. I really love the buildings, I so want to travel and take pics. Just don't make those beautiful buildings here in nv, us.I always wanted to go to England the most though. :drool:

Thanks a lot for those wonderful pictures, Kevin and Klio. They make me want to visit Oxford even more. This town looks absolutly beautiful.

Here's a few more then....

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Larger versions can be found in my flickr photostream (i recommend going by the sets as it will be easier to find things that way) -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8076308@N06/