When I first came to Cambridge the only College that charged visitors for entry was Queens. Unfortunately, because Cambridge was a free day out, all the language schools in the country used it as a day trip (having almost no budget for entertaining their students) and large, sometimes noisy groups of youngsters paraded through the colleges on a weekend. In order to control that (and make extra money too) most of the Colleges started to charge and as a side effect they locked all of the gates along The Backs to force entry through the pay points. This is why my pictures of King's are taken at the crack of dawn before they get up to speed with the gate control. In fact, as a resident I have a card that lets me in but King's controls their gates with a rod of iron and make you go on a very circuitous route. Anyway, yesterday when I was out with Monty I noticed that St John's had its back gate unlocked - but the sky was white and Monty, tied to the gate, was crying plaintively (!) so I didn't get a good photo. Today I dragged Nigel along to dog-watch (he still doesn't like me to disappear - thinks I'll get lost!) and I nipped along the path to take this view of the chapel and a bit of New Court (on the left) from the College gardens. The daffs along here are quite spectacular and I haven't done them justice, and I'm not sure about all the shadow on the buildings, but I may not get through the gate again for a while so it's my offering for the day.
Great lighting, fantastic framing by the trees and gentle soft daffs to take us into the scene.
It's a shot from someone who knows what she's doing with a camera