Featured Work

  • Lonesome by Caroline Fournier

    Taken in Wakefield, Quebec Features - Benches in January 2009

  • Yorkshire Dales by Jason Connolly

    Shot along my walk along the Ingleton waterfalls trail in the Yorkshire dales national park, this was shot between Raven ray and Scar end farm, a very barren landscape but very easy to stop, sit, relax and take in the views and fresh air while you are there… / HDR’d and tonemapped / Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens /

  • Men ! by bubblehex08

    Enjoying the evening of life

  • Footprints in the Snow by Crystal Williams

    A beautiful but bitter cold morning of -29c caused a stunning mist to dance along Okanagan Lake in Peachland, B.C., Canada. To read the short story I wrote to go with this picture, please copy and paste the following link in your browser. http://mscrys.deviantart.com/art/Footprints-in-the-Snow-106889873

  • The Space Between Us by Crystal Williams

    A couple that arrived together, silently enjoyed the view, then left. Taken in Peachland, BC, Canada.

  • North Euston hotel by Jason Connolly

    Fleetwood’s North Euston Hotel is part glorious folly, part historical curiosity, but mostly a reminder that those visionary Victorians did not get everything right. Commissioned in 1837, designed by leading architect Decimus Burton and opened at enormous expense in 1841, the crescent-shaped edifice was meant to make an enforced stop on the journey from London to Scotland as glamorous as possible. No one thought the new railway system would be able to negotiate the Cumbrian hills, so the most feasible plan would be to catch a train from Euston to Lancashire, take a boat to Ardrossan and complete the journey by train from there. Unfortunately, in 1850 the railway made it over Shap in 1850, effectively shunting the North Euston into a siding. There is still no urgent reason for anyone to travel to Fleetwood, though ironically, the hotel now comes close to providing one. Shot this morning 27th sept ‘08 at Fleetwood lancashire, thought I would get up early and do a sunrise shoot, but a big bank of cloud ruined that for me, this was my only shot of the morning, and then had a problem with the camera, now sorted…Thankfully.. /

  • A place to sit by pmarella

    Camera: Canon EOS 5D / Exposure: 30 sec (30) / Aperture: f/8 / Focal Length: 24 mm / ISO Speed: 100 / Exposure Bias: 0 EV As is.

  • Pier at Night by Violet Kleinert

    ...pier (during a power black out) at Rocky Point Park, Port Moody, BC, Canada

  • The Resting Place by Joanne Bradley

    Taken at one of the public boat launch areas of Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Canada on the morning of November 1st/08. This area looks out over the Lake of Two Mountains. Featured in the Benches group on Dec. 21st 2008

Recent Work

  • Churchyard Bench by Karen Martin IPA

    An old wooden bench in the yard at St Mary’s Church, Wootton by Woodstock, Oxfordshire. / A very quiet spot. Camera: Nikon D40x

  • Double Bench by Karen Martin IPA

    In a quiet spot in Lille

  • Come Take a Seat by Nickolay Stanev

    Bench on a hill flooded by morning light. Taken at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park, California, USA.

  • Park Bench by bouche

    Park bench in camperdown park, Newtown, Sydney. I’m into stencil art and saw this and liked the way the guy is placed behind the bench

  • Riverview Pk. by pmarella

    Riverview Pk. Bench Camera: Canon EOS 50D / Exposure: 30 sec (30) / Aperture: f/8 / Focal Length: 40 mm / ISO Speed: 100 / Exposure Bias: 0 EV As is .

  • 'Rest Awhile' by Gavin J Hawley

    A beautiful lichen covered bench in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

  • A Place for Thought by Gary Murison

    Photo taken in a small forest near Brodie Castle

  • A Seat Under the Moon by Gary Murison

    Shot taken in a small forest near Brodie Castle

  • Gran Banco Para Descansar by phil decocco

    In a low lighted entry to Casa Dorada in San Jose, Mexico this inviting bench seems to wait for folks to sit and rest a while.

  • Gray Bench in a Brown And Gray World by Ginger Barritt

    This shows the day with what little color there is…Just Brown & Gray….The bench looks as though you’d have to catch it first…..LOL

  • Cold Bench by Ginger Barritt

    Even this great bench looks ready to run away from this weather….

  • The Bench by jerry alcantara

    .. taken in early morning where you can only hear the birds and and winds blowing at the beautiful port in barcelona spain.

Featured Members

  • David Petranker

About This Group

If a photograph is worth a thousand words, a photograph of a bench can be worth a book. The Benches Group is the place for such artwork, where we share our representations and responses. It is for artwork of seating for 2 or more people, as opposed to a seat or a chair, as the emotions involved are looking at relationships – between each other and with our environment, especially an environment for a bench and its occupants created to last.

We are actively seeking new members, so if you’d like to join our benchmark group, please take time to read our Rules and Guidelines – they have been drafted to protect the integrity of the above-expressed purpose. Please note that we do not accept artwork without an accompanying Description.

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