St Denys, Sleaford, Lincolnshire

During the ten years that we lived in Lincolnshire I must have photographed this view of the church of St Denys on more than a dozen occasions. The viewpoint is the stairwell of the National Centre for Craft and Design that is housed in a tall converted and extended warehouse. Any time that we visited the exhibitions in the building I would look out at the church and, if the sky offered the right kind of background, I'd take another shot. It was a bright winter day in 2017 when I took this one, an interesting contrast to the cloudy day in 2010 when I took what I think is my second photograph of the church.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10     2017

Pool by the River Slea

I've passed this pool a couple of times on a walk along the River Slea from Sleaford and never worked out why it is there. It borders the river but its flow into the Slea is controlled. The hut at one end of it appears to be linked with its purpose.The pool is clearly man-made, at times looks stagnant, and has reeds encroaching on it. My eye is drawn to it because the straw-burning power station can be glimpsed beyond and together, on a frosty morning, they make an interesting composition.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10