Sony/Minolta pictures of the week | 30 October

<p>I was out in south Oxfordshire last week. At Bix Bottom (really) there is an abandoned church that has had it's remaining walls recently made safe:</p>

<p><a title="Bix Old Church" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5443/29891670693_f082f2a0f3_c.jpg" alt="Bix Old Church" width="800" height="438" /></a></p>

<p>^ A7, LA-EA4, Minolta 24-85mm zoom; 4-frame 'portrait' panorama</p>

<p>Nearby, the autumn colours were beginning to shine</p>

<p><a title="Autumn light" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5474/30524443265_17fe34a68a_c.jpg" alt="Autumn light" width="800" height="452" /></a></p>

<p>^ A7, LA-EA4, Minolta 24-85mm zoom</p>

<p>And in the Warburg Nature Reserve, sheep grazed under the trees</p>

<p><a title="Warburg Nature Reserve" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5776/29955417203_556dea5693_c.jpg" alt="Warburg Nature Reserve" width="800" height="535" /></a></p>

<p>^ A7, LA-EA4, Minolta 24-85mm zoom</p>

<p>As ever, please add a selection for the week below.</p>

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<p>At a wedding gathering, I got only this photo which was not posed. At left, my class mate, mother of the bride, and at right, the wife of another of our class mates.</p><div></div>

<p>Nice cloud cover over the Santa Barbara Breakwater and the visiting cruise ship.<br>

<a title="cloud cover" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5768/29944216813_ed21cc18c5_b.jpg" alt="cloud cover" width="1024" height="683" /></a><br>

Sony A7, Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 Aspherical III</p>

<p>Color version from a slightly different vantage point:<br>

<a title="cloud cover" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5769/30490246031_596b6c3bfc_b.jpg" alt="cloud cover" width="1024" height="682" /></a><br>

Sony A7, Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 Aspherical III</p>

<p>A7RII, FE 90mm f/2.8</p><div></div>

<p>We are into mid fall with temps higher than normal.</p><div></div>

Howard, any knowledge of the age of the church?<div></div>

<p>Randy, the church that is now in ruins is said to date from the early C12, though much of the structure will be later. The building was abandoned in 1875 and there is a replacement church about a mile away.</p>

<p>Interesting architecture.</p>