Retired school teacher and keen photographer Barney Sharratt, 83, explains how he created these amazing umbrellas
Being a keen photographer but having to shield during lockdown, my photography evolved into macro photography of flowers on the kitchen table.
I soon progressed to the amazing close-ups that you can get with soap bubbles. After reflecting the image of York Minster’s Rose Window onto a soap bubble I got the idea of an umbrella featuring that window.
I got a prototype brolly made with the design – and was so pleasantly surprised with it that I offered the idea to the York Minster Fund.
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They took up the idea with enthusiasm and the project is now totally in their hands with every penny of profit going to the fund.
In a very short space of time they have already sold more than 100 brollies. And at £14.99 they would make a brilliant present for those people you can never decide what to buy and might just come in handy in our inclement weather too!
It is nice to think that my photographic capers during lockdown can be used, even if in a very small way, towards the upkeep of York Minster’s ancient stained glass.
The brollies can be bought either online or at the Minster Shop.