Fishbourne Roman Palace

This is another backdated post. I happened to come across photos from this day while converting my Canon RAW files to PNG. It is recommended that one converts all proprietary RAW formats to Adobe's open format DNG, so that what I'm going to do to all my RAW files, both from the old Canon Powershot 3G and the EOS 350D. More about it here and here.

We were driving around Sussex again - this time went first to Fishbourne Roman Palace to see its wonderful mosaics.





You can see two different layers in this picture. Apparently they didn't like the existing pattern, so they laid a new mosaic on top of the old one on the floor of this room.





There are all kinds of tesserae they used. Fascinating, really.











To be honest, I was never that interested in mosaics, but the more I read about them, the more I became interested in the techniques and materials used.

But I think I'm more interested in nature - I was fascinated even by this odd-looking tree in the parking lot. It is March, but from looking at this tree you would think it was late autumn. (I've HDR-treated some of the following images.)



We drove on towards the coast, straight south from Chichester. I saw a windmill symbol on the map near Selsey, and after a few wrong turns, we found it.





...and her in the field just behind it.



The beach of Littlehampton.