Excellent monochrome! Stay well!

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Well seen. You certainly have an eye for a picture. This shot is only possible during the Winter months.

Have you put that to the test?

No, but I can confidently assume that when the trees are in leaf, the buildings beyond won't be visible.

That depends where you stand. Try standing by the striped masonry.

I prefer the composition from this POV, and that's where I stand.

Stand where you like, but the shot is possible from further down, even in summer, unless you actually want the church partially obscured, as you have it here. Personally, I think it's a bad POV, because you've got that straight-edged white roof on the right.

There again we must agree to differ. To me, both the church tower visible through the trees and the white roof are attractive components of the picture, and taking it from this POV produces a more interesting and pleasing composition, and draws the eye into the scene better.

Sorry, but it doesn't draw the eye at all, as the church in monochrome is barely visible as a church and could easily be a block of flats, whilst the white roof is just an irritant off to one side and doesn't form a coherent part of the composition.

We differ on all of the above and agree to do so.

De-cidedly.

Disappointingly, Oxford this Saturday is looking doubtful. Thanks to rail strike action, the last London-bound trains will leave by early afternoon, and National Rail advise essential travel only. Coming by car would be an option but a costly one, but the city centre might be rather dead. The forecast isn't brilliant either. One has it sunny until 11:30-ish but another has it overcast all day.

What do you want to come for anyway? For a more Christmassy experience, you might consider Woodstock, although it doesn't have a station.

To imbibe the Christmas feel (carol singers, buskers, department stores playing Bing Crosby and the decorations in the Covered Market), to have an egg and bacon bap in Browns, to buy a pork pie in the Covered Market, to look round the outdoor market, after dusk to see quads with their chapels lit inside, and in the morning to get a better shot of the Bridge of Sighs than I did last year.