I believe the boats are punts. As for the bridge I can't help.Lovely shot though

I like the framing - very interesting!

I believe they're punting boats....used for punting.

Perfect. I really like your style :)

The boats are called "punts" and one would go "punting". No idea which bridge though!

Punts?

Cool pic :)

Are they called narrowboats?
Nice shot, I love the framing and perspective.

They are punts, on either the Cherwell or Isis. Not having been in Oxford recently I'm not sure.

its just mavellous..
So calm n quite
wish to visit this place, where is it exactly situated?

Hi Sam,

Your photo is a view from Magdalen (pronounced Mawdelin) bridge which crosses the river Cherwell, a tributary of the river Thames. The boats are called Punts - and are a 'must do' next time you come to Oxford...

Mark

What nice shapes you have captured in the picture.

Lovely picture!!

...and they're called "punts".

Em

Sam,

The river is either called the Cherwell or the Thames (Isis in Oxford) depending on where you went punting. Not sure of the name of the bridge but I am sure somebody who knows that view will be able to give the the bridge and river. The boats are called punts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_(boat) .

Great site,

George

the boats are called punts. it looks like it was taken from the magdalen bridge over the river thames.

great shot, as ever!

These boats are punts, moved using a pole pushed on the river bed, and this photo was taken from Magdalen bridge. I think the river is the Cherwell, on it's way down to meet the Isis, which is what we call our section of the Thames.
Great photo!

The bridge I can't help you with as i don't know Oxford all that well. I am however familiar with Cambridge which to all intents is Oxford's twin brother. They are called punts and are ideal for falling out of in a comedy fashion ;)

The shot was taken from Magdalen bridge looking downstream. The boats are punts and they are moored along the bank of the botanical gardens. The river is the Cherwell. (I hope I'm right now, I'll have to check on the way home)

Great site, inspiring. I've particularly enjoyed the shots of Oxford, I was very excited to see how you would portray it after you said you were visiting and I definitely haven't been disappointed.

hi!
i live in oxford. the bridge on the picture is MAGDALEN BRIDGE in Oxford. i think the boats are called PUNTS and you have to move them using a POLE, this is called PUNTING (one of the main attractions in Oxford).
more information: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/guide/cartoonist/punting.html

Im not from Oxford but visit quite a bit! The boats are called 'punts' .. pushed along by a pole and this looks like the Magdalen Bridge on the River Cherwell but I couldn't be sure

Punts on the River Isis (Oxford can't be common and call it the Thames like everyone else does), taken at Magdalene Bridge (pronounced as in "Maudlin")

Oh, and the bit behind the punts is part of Oxford Botanical Garden. Just in case you knew/cared/had forgotten.

The boats are known as punts. The river is probably the Cherwell.

I'd call them punts, But i'm from Bath not Oxford, so I could be wrong.

I think the boats are just called boats, but the activity is called "punting" instead of rowing

Oh, and the bridge is called Magdalen Bridge i think

They're called punts - the British of gondollas...

It's a good photo, but I just want to make a point about the size of the image on your site. At 1304 pixles height, it's impossible to take in the entire picture at once. I have to scroll up and down to get a sense of the "totality", but it's just not the same thing - and rather annoying, frankly.

Yes, I could use the resize feature of my browser, but these resizers are crude at best - and ruins the picture at worst.

Just a thought.

That looks like the Cherwell river from Magdalen bridge. The boats are called punts.

Think they are called punts?

The boats are Punts, but i don't know Oxford well enough to know the name of the bridge i'm afraid :)

Sorry, don't know the name of the Bridge, but I believe the boats are called Punts, and are propelled with a pole pushing along the riverbed.

I'm guessing it's the River Thames, Kings Road Bridge. I'm pretty sure the boats are punts.

What an amazing shot! Oh my.

No idea which bridge it is but the boats are punts, propelled by a pole wielded by someone standing on the platform at the end.

This is a very nice shot. However, I wish the posts which are framing the scene were in focus. With your dslr, is it possible to get everything like this in focus? With my old Canon Powershot A75, I never had a problem with this. But then when I played around with dslrs in the store, I could never get foreground and background both in focus. Someone help me out here...

They're called punts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_%28boat%29).

Can't help with the name of the bridge, but the river is probably the Thames.

They're the river Cherwell, Magdalen Bridge (the road over it's called The Plain), and the boats are called punts.

punts=boats
cherwell=river
bridge=?

Are you thinking of the name "Punt" for the boat?

I seem to recall you go 'punting down the river'..punt boat?

i believe they are called "Punts" or at least that they are driven by "punters".

Hi Sam, the boats are called punts.

Excellent photoblog by the way - your photos of Toronto capture the city very well and I'm looking forward to some winter shots when the snow begins to set in.

The river running through Oxford is the Thames (yes, the same one as London) and the boats, to my knowledge, are called punts. I have no idea of the name of the bridge.

Or maybe the River Cherwell, and the bridge is the famous Magdalen Bridge. But the boats are definitely called punts.

punts, ahem

They are called punts and its the River Cherwell (though the Thames also flows through Oxford where its known as the River Isis)

They look to me like punts on the Cherwell (pronounced Charwell) viewed from Magdalen Bridge.

Nice composition through the ballustrade.

Andrew

As a former Oxford resident, I am really enjoying your pictures. The boats are known as punts - though in fact this refers to the pole used to push you along.
I think the picture was taken from Magdalen Bridge.

The boats are called punts, and when you are out on them you are punting; you use a big stick kind of like the gondaliers in Venice do. From the way the boats are, I would guess it's probably Magdalen Bridge (pronounced Maudelin, not Mag-da-len)

Great picture - takes me back to my university days there!

These boats are 'punts', on which you can 'go punting' (preferably in summer).

And I think the river is the Cherwell (pronounced Char-well)

I like the picture. I have been in one of those boats in oxford. But I can't remember what they calll them. It is fun going in one of those boats and use a poal to go forward.

Nice use of framing, but the colour doesn't seem right, looks bleak or washed out. maybe pure b&w would have worked better...

They are called "punts." On warmer days, students would stop tourists to ask them if they are interested in "punting." It's rather fun!

I like the Oxford photos. Keep posting them (if you have more)!

I am from England and rah rah I think they are called (cough! cough!) PUNTS
I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.

The boats are called 'punts.' I think the river is called the Cam or something that rhymes with it, because I remember punting on the Cam when I visited Oxford.

Hi there, been coming to DDOI daily for a while now but never commented, really like your work. The boats are called punts

I'm not from Oxford, but I believe it's called "punting": http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/guide/cartoonist/punting.html

mmm... I likey.

Those would be Gondolas, I believe, but not quite what the Italian ones look like...

maybe a Skiff then?

I believe the boats are called "punts."

Love your work. Every day! Thank you for sharing your gift and your view of the world.

Now this one I really love, because it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, "the Graduate" except that this time, the naughty teacher is made of stone and she looks to be inviting a whole school of boats into her um.... Harbour.
And she'd be all like "hey bouys, (pun) you want to dock in some of this?"
And they'd be all like, "Mrs. Stone thighs, are you trying to seduce me or something?"
And then she's be all, "Yeah, come on and give me a cootchie splinter."

I don't know, I'm just saying, in the age of re-made movies, I'd like to pitch this one. We can get J-Lo to play the teacher, because she's old and made of stone.

Coop.

They're punts! Lovely picture as always, Sam. Sorry I can't name the bridge...

Well, the Boats are Punts, the river is most likely the River Cherwell, based solely on the fact that it looks like the green known as mesopatamia near Magdalen College and Bridge, but its hard to say for certain because there is not enough other information for me. I know its not the Cherwell Boathouse because i have punted there, and its not that open a stretch of river. The motorized Punts in the background also suggest Magdalen. The other place i know you can Rent Punts is at Foley Bridge near the Head of the River Pub on the River Isis (The Thames), but this really doesn't look like that location.

indeed, they're called punts. That looks like a shot taken from Magdalen (pronounced "Maudlin") bridge over the river Cherwell.

Nice picture btw.

That's Magdelene bridge and the boats are punts. On May Day stdents are known to jump off this bridge at sunrise as a choir sings from the tower at Magdelene college across the road..

See http://www.oxford.gov.uk/tourism/historic-sites.cfm/text/1 for view from the punts

Great photos!

great shot, love the earthy tones, i'm slightly bothered by the the blurryness of the columns in the foreground at the top- i love your panoramas but i think this photo would be stronger with some cropping at the top and bottom (my 2cents)

Nice picture. Maybe it's just my dirty mind, but doesn't it seem like you're looking at the punts through a.....uh, you know. Especially with the sinuous curves at the bottom.

Nice! I saw this and immediately smiled. I've been in this same spot and took a similar photo (not framed as nicely as yours) about 5 years ago. I'm loving your Oxford photos!

There's something oddly, *ahem*, feminine about this photo.

Excellent shot and an unusual view of Oxford. I won't bother repeating what the 60 odd people before me have said about the boats as you've probably worked out what they're called by now! ;-)

So beautiful...perfect!

! بهشون میگن قایق

its almost like looking through a naked womans legs

Awesome frame! Great shot! You have a wicked eye for photography if I may say so :)

it's.....sexy!

Jandoes, if you punted on the Cam, you were in Cambridge...

(the reason Cambridge is so called is because it used to be a bridge over the Cam. Clever, innit? *grin* )

Sam, this is one of your prettiest images.

Lyle, next you'll be telling me people used to just cross the river at Oxford. *sigh* What's an American girl to believe these days?

This is brilliant. I usually don’t like it when I have to scroll down to see the rest of the picture, but it works so well with this one.

Well I'm struggling here bcause of screen size but I think you could have cropped some of the sky out.

Is that a couple necking in the center of the image (above the "punts")?

Wow, did you go punting too?

I was there only a few weeks ago. Absolutely incredible. In fact I've got almost the same shot.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/salis/54666118/in/set-1187968/]

Wow... beautiful!!!