EASTER SUNDAY 2008
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Easter Sunday morning 2008, and much of the country awoke to a blanket of snow. I awoke excitedly at 5AM, and looked out to see not a flake of snow anywhere...woke again at 7AM and there was a couple of inches. Got out as quickly as I could and intended to photograph four churches. In the end only managed three due to what must have been the quickest thaw that I had ever seen! When I got to Alwalton, the three pictures above, it was still snowing very hard. St Andrews church looks picturesque at whatever time of the year that you photograph it. It did look very beautiful in the snow though.
Second church photographed was St Mary at Orton Waterville, see photographs above and right. Several people out and about with their cameras photographing this church. By the time that I arrived here the locals were just going in for their Easter Sunday service. A nice friendly lot they were as well. The snow had stopped by this time and there was already signs that a rapid thaw might occur. Instead of ploughing on to neighbouring Orton Longueville I decided to head back to photograph my own village church at Chesterton.
Final church managed before the snow vanished was St Michaels at Chesterton. I can remember some 30 years ago going to this churchyard with my mother with the snow literally up to my knees. Those were the days...sledging down Ivens Hill and the snow on the ground for two weeks at a time on occasions. This snow had thawed down to virtually nothing over the course of just a couple of hours. Moral here is if you want to photograph in the snow these days...get up early and work fast!
