Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall Looking East no.1

Last month I spent a few days with Colin & Pat in Hexham. Colin had recently attended a photographic workshop on digital fine art black and white photography at Inversnaid in Scotland, and he was kindly passing on the knowledge he had gained from the weeklong workshop with Ray Spence.

http://www.inversnaidphoto.com/

Looking South From Hadrian's Wall

Colin is taking part in a project to photography the Northumberland National Park, so I was going to spend some of my time with him photographing in the park. Sadly the weather wasn’t cooperating and it limited our trips, but we did manage to go for a stroll along Hadrian’s Wall on a grey and windy afternoon.

Hadrain's Wall Looking East no.2

The wall must have been one of the Seven Wonders of the World, when it was completed in around 130AD. It was 73.5miles long and 20’ tall in places. Many of the stones from the wall have been used over the centuries in farm buildings and boundary walls, so regretfully little of the wall remains today, but what remains does give you of a glimpse of how spectacular the wall would have been almost 2,000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian

http://www.hadrians-wall.org/

http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/romans.html