Vesna Armstrong Photography

Here is just a quick and brief post before a two week break I am going to take from posting as I go for a visit to my native Zagreb to see my Mum, family and friends. I love taking photos of the inside of windows; there is something irresistible about the mood and drama the interplay of shadows and highlights creates. I have recently stayed at Ponden Hall , my favourite place with Brontë connections, and am still reminiscing with fondness about it. On the morning of check out, after breakfast and a lovely chat with my friends Julie and Steve, who run Ponden Hall as B&B, I took a few shots of this beautiful old mullioned window. This is just a corner of a massive table at which Julie serves her most delicious breakfast to guests. I love gazing out of the window while enjoying the food. On this particular morning there were many delightful signs of autumn in the garden outside; leaves changing colours, gorgeous tall and bushy fuchsia with its pretty pink ballerina like flowers...

September is one of my favourite months. The harsh summer temperatures and light become much gentler. It's the month when a lot of lovely fruit becomes ripe and ready for harvest; when a lot of summer flowers are still going strong and besides a multitude of all sorts of gorgeous red berries turn up on trees and bushes - rowan, hawthorn, hips...I still need to learn some of the names. It is the month when I love to pay my annual visit to Ponden Hall and go for walks on Stanbury moor which bears many fascinating Brontë landmarks. Last Friday it was the only full day of my stay at Ponden, so it was the day I planned the longest and remotest walk up on the moor. Unlucky for me, it rained heavily all day, and I had to put up with the fact that no such walk would happen. Instead, I walked the three miles to Haworth making a note of all the nice photos I might be able to take on my way back if it stopped raining. My day was not spoilt by rain by any means (the weather cannot possibly s...

" Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." (Charlotte Brontë on her sister Emily) This year sees the third successive bicentenary birthday in the famous Victorian literary family, the Brontës - that of Emily Jane Brontë. As a big Brontëphile, to mark this special birthday I have created my personal tribute to Emily, just as I did for her brother Branwell last year, and her sister Charlotte the year before.  Emily was the fifth of the six children born to Maria and Patrick Brontë. She is the author of "Wuthering Heights", one of the most famous and loved romantic novels in the history of literature, as well as the author of some of the finest poetry ever written. She also had a great talent for drawing and painting and was a gifted piano player. Of the four Brontë siblings who lived to adulthood Emily is the one we know the least about. She grew up to be a quiet and private person who didn't seek friendship or co...

The house in which John Brown, Patrick Brontë's sexton and Branwell's close friend lived. It is situated next to The Old School Room in Church Street, just yards away from the Brontë Parsonage.  Top of Church Street with the Parsonage wall on the left. View from Parson's Field behind the Parsonage towards West Lane and Worth valley. Image taken in Parson's Field behind Brontë Parsonage Top of Church Street with the Parsonage on the left and The Old School Room on the right. The two women are the same as in the previous photo.  Local pussycat who likes being round the Parsonage at dusk, just like I do. St Michael And All Angels, Haworth Church Church Street, Haworth The Brontë Parsonage garden. Brontë Parsonage, photo taken from the same vantage point as the previous photo.