Just photos – no particular theme
We’re walking the Shirlett – Barrow – Willey circuit today, a very varied walk of just under six miles. At first the sky’s grey, but the forecast was right and the sun’s soon shining. There’s blossom in the fields near Barrow: the season moves on…
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If I was Hilaire Belloc, the following would rhyme. I’m not: it won’t…
Yesterday evening, after ensuring I had two backups of the files on my data drive, I formatted the memory card for the camera which accompanied me today, my Lumix GX80. On today’s walk I made almost 90 exposures – but when I tried to download them onto the computer, only the last 29 appeared to be on the card. Where were the others?
I installed and ran ‘Recuva’*, which after about 40 minutes found almost all the photos which had been on the card when I formatted it – over 2,000. It also found 28 more from today’s outing – but there was no sign of the first 30. (I’m going by the consecutive file numbering, based on the last photo I took yesterday). Could it have been anything to do with the formatting?
I love the little GX80. It’s great for carrying on a walk. However, in the two years I’ve had it, it’s caught me out several times. Carrying it over my shoulder, the buttons on the back sometimes get pressed when it bumps against my hip (it happens with other cameras too), selecting something I don’t want. Could I have accidentally formatted the card again? I pressed the menu button on the back, and there it was – the Format option ready to use in the Tools menu, exactly as I’d left it yesterday. Formatted after taking 58 shots, the next ones saved over the first 30 I’d taken today; the remainder recovered perfectly.
The moral in this tale:
– turn the camera off between shots? (I’d rather not…)
– don’t leave it on the Format menu! Leave it on something harmless!
*Recuva: great free software! https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva Usual disclaimer applies…
On Wenlock Edge, it might be, but we’re on Benthall Edge, last gasp of the aforementioned, where it reaches and overlooks the Severn. The wind’s not very strong – not going to do any damage, just providing a steady whoosh overhead. Last week’s blow may have brought some branches down – National Trust staff have got a bonfire going, and the wind is really encouraging the flames. Happily, it’s downwind of the path.
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To Willey – out via Darley (rhymes with rarely) and the Honeypot; back down the sunken lane behind Deancorner. Just short of five miles, and no-one else about (apart from a lost taxi driver). In the sky over the fields near Darley, swanee whistles are playing:
On the moor I saw a plover
And a curlew call her lover
“Pee-wit!” “Pee-wit!”
Spring shall surely come again
No curlews, but four or five lapwings wheeling and fluting. Wonderful – not a sound we hear often now. Made our day! (listen here Lapwing Bird Facts | RSPB)
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A walk in the woods on a grey Sunday morning, down the ‘other’ Shirlett lane, ending up at the redundant trig point on Hawthorn Bank. It may be grey above, but there’s colour at ground level – greens, reds and browns, sometimes in unexpected places.
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We were on gardening duties earlier in the day – partly because of the likelihood of a sharp shower or two. By mid-afternoon, things are looking more encouraging: we’ll have a quick stroll as far as the end of the lane to Dean Farm. The sunshine is bright, the breeze is stiff (and cold). It’s a real ‘blow away the cobwebs’ outing!
Yesterday was wet and windy; today it’s bright and breezy. We’ll need to time it carefully to avoid the showers though. It’s a familiar route, past Round Hill and Willey Lower Pool, down Bould Lane and back through Linley Brook, but the weather makes each outing different. When the sun shines, there are photoflood moments – got to be quick though, they’re gone in seconds.
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Down the lane past Swinney Farm, then the old railway track to Coalport Bridge. Cross the river and make our way to the china works and the youth hostel, where maybe before too long we’ll once again enjoy tea and cake. Back over the memorial footbridge and up the dingle (which isn’t too muddy…) – a most enjoyable outing!
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Wandering from Willey once more – this time, back up Scots Lane and down to St Leonard’s church at Linley. An interesting little building, tucked away from reality down a rough-surfaced leafy lane, its main claim to fame seems to be the green man over a blocked north doorway. It is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/st-leonard-linley.html
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That’s what I said yesterday, and today’s forecast was “overcast”. It was wrong. The bright sunshine made it feel warmer too. We’re enjoying a short walk around the very quiet lanes from Willey. Where’s everyone else on this lovely afternoon? We usually see at least one other person out walking, sometimes as many as three or four on a Sunday afternoon…
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