TowerBase - Photographs

Introduction

92% of the photos in TowerBase have been sent in by TowerBase users. I would like to record my thanks to all those ringers who have submitted photos for inclusion in TowerBase. You can find a complete list of TowerBase photoraphers here.

How to submit your own photos to TowerBase

Photos of towers are always welcome if they are of unphotographed towers or significantly better than the existing TowerBase photograph. Please send a JPEG image of a tower to photos@towerbase.net The filename of the image should begin with the letters 'TB' followed by the TowerBase identifier which can be found in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, followed by a space and then the name of the tower. For example, the file name for Hursley, Hampshire is

TB2608 Hursley, Hants.jpg

The critical part is the first 6 characters of the file name. They must tie up with the correct TowerBase identifier otherwise the photo will be assigned to the wrong tower.

Leading zeros should be added to the file name if the TowerBase identifier is less than 1000. For example, the filename for Abbey Dore is

TB0001 Abbey Dore, Herefs.jpg

Photos should be jpeg files with a minimum resolution of around 640 x 480 pixels and a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. Typically this should give a jpeg file size between 64KB and 225KB.

Please only send photographs for which you own the copyright (ie towers you have photographed yourself).

What makes a good tower photograph?

The subject of the photo should be the external view of the tower. Whilst the other parts of the church or building are of interest the viewers attention should be drawn to the tower itself.
Photographs can either be in landscape or portrait orientation. The choice will normally be dictated by the tower and local conditions.
The tower should be vertical in the photograph. A surprising number of photos are submitted where the tower is noticeably not vertical.
Care should be taken over exposure. The tower (not the sky) should be correctly exposed. It is particularly easy to get under exposed towers on a sunny day.
Where possible the tower should occupy about 80% of the photograph. This allows scope to rotate the picture to correct for non vertical towers without losing tower detail.
Try to avoid getting unnecessary artifacts in the photograph. Particularly annoying, to me, are automobiles.
The resolution of the jpeg image should be such that the photo is a minimum of 800 x 600 and about 80KB in size.

Which towers need photographs?

The following towers need photographing:

TB7843BamptonWestmorlandS PatrickNY521180 TB7842BexleyNew South WalesUnknown TB7857BishopstokeHampshireBishopstoke Campanile TB6165BraintreeEssexGarage-le-TowerTL750230 TB7815BrockenhurstHampshireCorridor RingSU301021 TB7749BrockenhurstHampshireThe Rainbow Ring TB7463BrockenhurstHampshireWashroom RingSU301021 TB7820BuckfastleighDevonBowerdon PealSX707667 TB7853BudabergQueenslandChrist Church TB7737CheltenhamGloucestershireBicycle RingSO927212 TB7657Church LawfordWarwickshirePlantagenet RingSP451761 TB7866CliftonNottinghamshireCorpus ChristiSK552339 TB7862CurloadSomersetCurload Clappers TB7781DoddinghurstEssexAll SaintsTQ589990 TB7858DorstoneHerefordshireS Faith TB7868Drayton BeauchampBuckinghamshireSt Mary V TB7828DunmanwayCorkS Mary TB7809EcclefechanDumfriesshireformer churchNY192745 TB7830Exeter Cathedral SchoolDevonDenmisch TB7837Eyton upon the Weald MoorsShropshireS Catherine TB7755FarnboroughKentS Giles TB7864ForresMorayshireBalnaferry Campanile TB7859GarvestoneNorfolkCubby Hole TB7825GorranCornwallS LeonardSW999424 TB7826HamiltonNorth IslandWaikato Mini Ring TB7840HarlestonNorfolkBattam Six TB7848Haywards HeathSussexBellflowermews TB7753HockwoldNorfolkS Peter TB7870Horsted KeynesSussexSt GilesTQ382286 TB7854IngleburnNew South WalesHoly Family TB7824IpstonesStaffordshireS LeonardSK018502 TB7850KalgoorlieWestern AustraliaAlphabet Ring TB7871KalgoorlieWestern AustraliaAlphabet Ring (Ward Street) TB7816KemsleyKentTrafford CampanileTQ904659 TB7849KimoodDownS Mary TB7852LedburyHerefordshireHermitage TB7779Leonard StanleyGloucestershireErica CampanelleSO804036 TB7818LiddingtonWiltshireAll SaintsSU206812 TB7829LindfieldNew South WalesHoly Family of Nazarath TB7698LissHampshireCampanile (Rectory)SU775278 TB7712Little EatonDerbyshireSt Oulton CampanileSK362414 TB7801LlanfwrogDenbighshireSS Mwrog & MarySJ113578 TB7756LondonMiddlesexS James Garlickhythe TB7833Longis CommonAlderneyChannel Islands' Ringing Centre TB7745LyngNorfolkCampanile DyngalyngTG069177 TB7819mobile ringmobile ringBicycle Ring On Tour V2 TB7813mobile ringmobile ringCarter Campanile TB7812mobile ringmobile ringChatham, NJ Portable Mini Ring TB7811mobile ringmobile ringCork City Ring TB7734mobile ringmobile ringDurham & Newcastle Association Mini Ring TB7701mobile ringmobile ringHarecroft Ring TB7822mobile ringmobile ringHillbrow Campanile TB7800mobile ringmobile ringInverness Portable Mini Ring TB7806mobile ringmobile ringJohn David Ring TB7841mobile ringmobile ringKennett Micro-Ring TB7844mobile ringmobile ringLittleToze Ring TB7835mobile ringmobile ringMadams Court Ring TB7867mobile ringmobile ringRatby Mini Ring TB7845mobile ringmobile ringRoslyn McKenzie Mini Ring TB7807mobile ringmobile ringSt Mary Bradoc & St Winnow Mini Ring TB7773Mobile Ringmobile ringStallpits Ring TB7836mobile ringmobile ringThe Rainbow Ring TB7735mobile ringmobile ringVestey Ring TB7846MoresbyCumberlandS Bridget TB7710New MiltonHampshireForest Edge BellsSZ246946 TB7751North BurlinghamNorfolkS Andrew TB7754North HaylingHampshireS Peter TB7839North WestonSomersetWyatt's Yard TB7855NorwichNorfolkMancroft Ringing Discovery Centre TB7821OvertonHampshireCampanileSU510490 TB7831PowfootDumfriesshireBorders Mini Bells TB7860RangioraSouth IslandKarearea Bells TB7752RibbesfordWorcestershireS Leonard TB7805RochesterNew YorkAscension TB7847RosemeadowNew South WalesOur Lady Help of Christians TB7740Shelland, StowmarketSuffolkMillbeck RingTM012599 TB7869SingaporeSingaporeSt Andrew TB7851SkeytonNorfolkSkeyton Six TB6167St NeotsHuntingdonshireParkway CampanileTL187610 TB7872St Peter PortGuernseyElizabeth College Mini RingWV270761 TB7832St WinnowCornwallS WinnowSX115569 TB7861StandishGloucestershireAlta Kabano TB7817Stockton HeathCheshireS ThomasSJ613863 TB7827StonegraveYorkshireHoly Trinity TB7808Swanmore, RydeHampshireS Michael & All AngelsSZ588914 TB7823TilbrookBedfordshireAll SaintsTL080692 TB7814TimsburySomersetPig StyST667584 TB7802TullochInverness-shireLast TowerNN329806 TB7865Vernet les BainsPyrenees OrientalesSt George TB7856WarnhamSussexNewdenne Bells TB7748WedmoreSomersetThe Bakery Tower TB7810West HuntspillSomersetChair RingST308460 TB7838West WyalongNew South WalesAlphabet Ring TB7863WinfortonHerefordshireS Michael & All Angels TB7834YpresWest FlandersS George's Mermorial Church

Or click on the initial letter of the town name

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Or click on the county name. The number of unphotographed towers is in parenthesis. Note the flexible use of county name in the case of overseas towers and mobile ring is considered to be a county.

Alderney (1) Bedfordshire (1) Buckinghamshire (1) Cheshire (1) Cork (1) Cornwall (2) Cumberland (1) Denbighshire (1) Derbyshire (1) Devon (2) Down (1) Dumfriesshire (2) Essex (2) Gloucestershire (3) Guernsey (1) Hampshire (9) Herefordshire (3) Huntingdonshire (1) Inverness-shire (1) Kent (2) Middlesex (1) mobile ring (18) Morayshire (1) New South Wales (5) New York (1) Norfolk (7) North Island (1) Nottinghamshire (1) Pyrenees Orientales (1) Queensland (1) Shropshire (1) Singapore (1) Somerset (5) South Island (1) Staffordshire (1) Suffolk (1) Sussex (3) Warwickshire (1) West Flanders (1) Western Australia (2) Westmorland (1) Wiltshire (1) Worcestershire (1) Yorkshire (1)

TowerBase - Photographs

Introduction

How to submit your own photos to TowerBase

What makes a good tower photograph?

Which towers need photographs?

TowerBase photograph information last updated 2025-01-05 21:04:55

TowerBase photograph information last updated 2020-04-24 10:20:52