Finding Little Gems in the Archives
I have thousands upon thousands of digital images stored on hard drives (and thousands more on slide and negative film) and I do like to go back through the archives every so often to see what I can turn up. Take this shot taken in September 2006 on a Nikon D50 and 18-55mm lens of Plymouth Hoe from the top of a Ferris Wheel. The view from the top was pretty spectacular but this shot was never used for some reason. Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada. A prominent landmark on the Hoe is Smeaton's Tower. This is the upper portion of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, which was originally built on the Eddystone Rocks (22.5 km south) in 1759. It was dismantled in 1877 and moved, stone by stone, to the Hoe where it was re-erected. A statue of Sir Francis Drake by Jo...