Caen Hill (Thursday 17th July 2025)

After a shopping trip I arrived at Caen Hill the same time as a light rain, in which I ate my lunch of sausage rolls and caramel doughnuts. I sat beside the AP Herbert Lock, restored in 1983 by the Inland Waterways Association, from where I took the blip.

I was using a limited edition APS-C 35mm lens in a full-frame camera, but this time I was getting keystoning that didn't show up in the viewfinder, which meant a lot of cropping and less desirable results. As an example here is an uncropped version of the second Extra. The first Extra shows the Moorings with some foreground ragwort.

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Thursday 17.7.2025 (1816 hr)

Blip #4294 (#4044 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2025 #090/265 + 079/100 Extras
Day #5591 (1493 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3431 (#3271 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-DA 35 mm F2.8 lens

Devizes series
Caen Hill series
Canals series
Kennet and Avon Canal series
Landscape series

Caen Hill, 17 July 2025 (Flickr album of 18 photos)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now (recorded 2 October 1957, New York NY)
R.I.P. Connie Francis (Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero) (12 December 1937, Newark NJ – 16 July 2025, Florida)
"Who's Sorry Now? was recorded in 1957 by Connie Francis, and since then the song has become closely identified with her due to the immense popularity of her version which was her breakout hit. Since 1955, Francis had recorded 20 sides for MGM Records and only one (The Majesty of Love, a duet with country singer Marvin Rainwater that eventually became a million-selling record) charted at all. Due to her near-complete failure as a recording artist, MGM informed her that her contract would end after one more disc. With her music career on the line, Francis's father suggested she record Who's Sorry Now. He was convinced that it would have crossover appeal with both older listeners and teenagers if the song were given a modernized sound. Francis strongly objected to the idea on the grounds that selling the youth audience on an almost 35-year-old song was "ridiculous", but she finally agreed to it as a favor to her father. Francis's recording featured an arrangement in 12 8 time, a rhythm found in contemporaneous 1950s hits including Fats Domino's 1956 recording of the 1940 pop song Blueberry Hill. After Dick Clark's championing of it on American Bandstand in January 1958, the single rose to number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 that Spring, with eventual US sales totaling one million units. In the UK, it was number 1 for six weeks in May and June 1958." - Wikipedia

One year ago:
Pinboard #19