Amazing photographs
HERE is another batch of fascinating pictures taken by our Echo readers.
David Sarson has photographed the Guildhall and cathedral in Leicester, from Guildhall Lane.
Ian Farnfield submitted a picture of a lovely yellow rose in a floral display.
Crispy snapped this Hercules airplane dropping flares at Donna Nook.
John Lapworth, from Shepshed, sent in this image, titled ‘Kingfisher photographed in Greece, origin of the expression Halcyon Days’.
He said: “Halcyon days, meaning calm, peaceful days is derived from the (Alcyone), a bird of Greek legend. The ancients believed that the bird made a floating nest in the Aegean Sea and had the power to calm the waves.
“The Alcyone could calm the waves as it nested at sea, from a myth in which Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, had a daughter named Alcyone, married to Ceyx who drowned at sea. Alcyone, grieving, threw herself into the waves, but instead of drowning, she was transformed into the colourful bird recognised as the Kingfisher.”
Sally Bardsley photographed lights in Regent Street which she calls ‘Angel of the South’.
Jane Trevarthen took this picture of winter reflections on a Sunday walk along the Ashby canal near Sutton Cheney.
And George Neal submitted a photo of autumn colours on the Grand Union Canal in Leicester.