The ICM technique (longer than technically correct shutter speeds, handheld and in daylight) normally has me moving the camera during the exposure but in this one the reeds were waving around in the breeze. So on a few shots I managed to get my camera movement 'in synch' with the reeds waving around, creating a … Continue reading Reeds
This could be an occasional niche within the niche that is Thursday Doors. So that's a nice niche niche then. Sorry. Anyway, Cornwall, being almost an island on the south-western end of the British Isles mainland, is of course a seafaring place and a lot of the small villages grew up, both in population and … Continue reading Thursday Doors: Boat Houses
Apparently there was some form of fishing competition as the sun set on this recent windy and dramatic looking evening, which may explain the anglers wasting no time in getting out on to their favoured positions on the rocks. The waves were not quite finished with the rocks yet, luckily the dramatic cloud cover held … Continue reading Sea Anglers, Crackington Haven
What can you do when you wake up to a cover of low cloud cloaking everything in silence and muted softness but nip out to the garden in your dressing gown, camera in hand, to capture some of the delicacy and subtle autumnal tones. I have now uploaded three (slightly) different pictures in a … Continue reading The Autumn Mists
I've typed too many words accompanying my posts recently. Here's a picture.
I have commented on a couple of other photographers posts about how much I generally do not like the single outstanding colour in an otherwise monochrome image, apparently called 'colour-pop'. Like a lot of digital techniques, to my eye it can be used spuriously and seemingly for no reason other than it can be done. … Continue reading Thursday Doors: Red
After my last picture using relative simplicity I have gone to the other extreme. Autumn is now arriving and the countryside around us is of course preparing for the shorter days and colder times. I think I've managed to get many of the colours of the landscape around us now into this picture of some … Continue reading Transition
The weather (and the political world) have been providing some dramatic entertainment this week. As I mentioned in my post on Thursday, our walks outdoors this week have been more about dodging the strong winds and ferocious showers than any photography. So I thought I'd post up a picture for the weekend which was taken a … Continue reading Calm during the Storms
This week has largely been grey, windy, wet, and frankly making me feel like getting started on the hibernation that bears are known for. Officially the UK was in the grips of Storm Ali over the last couple of days with gusts of wind exceeding 80mph in the north of the country. Not hurricane or … Continue reading Thursday Doors: Many Storms
Is anyone tired of abstract sea and waves pictures yet? A slight difference in this one. With my sweeping panning movement I seem to have more or less matched the speed of the nearest waves, thereby keeping them relatively sharp compared with the rest of the scene. This has given me an effect that I … Continue reading Sharp & Incoming at Crackington
The sort of doors that I'm likely to come across are those in a more rural and less populated setting. Basically, I'm not often found in areas where a lot more humans like to gather, build towns or cities and live fairly close to each other and therefore the exposure to fancy doors protecting the … Continue reading Barn Doors (for people)
I live very near to Davidstow Moor airfield. It's not a working airfield these days; more a flat and high altitude set of remnants of one, with some current usage by hobbyist model aircraft and microlight flyers, learner drivers and some more umm... different hanging about in less social hours. The airfield played an active part … Continue reading Abandoned Airfield
