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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any wild Snake's Head Fritillary local to me, so I decided to buy one. A bit of a cheat, but a good excuse to try out my new macro lens. As a true photographer, I sprayed some water on the flower to add to the macro goodness. I was relatively pleased with the results, but wanted something a bit more, so I decided to fire off some shots whilst spraying and play around with the shutter speed. I chose this shot because I really like how the water is bouncing off the flower and the soft bokeh it creates in the background.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
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Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens. Single shot. Raw File into Affinity Photo. SooC except for 11x8 crop.
Low ambient light. 2 Canon EL-100 Speedlites. One on camera as wireless sender only, second to upper right on low power.
Along the Mardyke in South Essex, the lazy little river I occasionally spend time with. Here taking us further to the north but inevitably the time comes to turn and head back. Following all 11 miles of its course seems a very pleasant way to spend a day but there’s no hurry. You’d miss too much…
Easter, schools closed and lockdown...this play area would normally be teeming with kids, screaming, shouting, laughing.. now it has the hallmarks of a post apocalyptic event.
Compositionally Challenged Week 9: Minimalist Photography
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Holehaven Creek on a misty morning. Canvey Island, Essex UK
Serenity
Yesterday was a really good morning to be out in the Eden Valley. For a couple of hours the conditions were perfect with mist coming and going as the sun started to rise.
I know I shot this scene last weekend with a slightly different view and conditions, I wasn't going to stop, but on my way home I couldn't resist the conditions.
Lazonby, Eden Valley, Cumbria
Firecrest 100mm Holder
Firecrest Ultra-slim Circular Polariser
Sony A7RII
Sony FE24-70mm f2.8 GM
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© Brian Kerr Photography 2017
A collective noun I just invented. Usually they will fly away, far away, at the sight of me with a camera. The dog isn’t to be blamed either. Here they performed a fly past, almost ceremonial…
This not a migration, merely a relocation. Here they flew overhead, just low enough so even a 200mm lens could capture them. How wonderful, how cooperative!
Mandrill feeding time at Colchester zoo. For quite some time I thought someone had thrown an ice cream cone into the enclosure in spite of the signs asking you not to. My sense of outrage subsided when I realised it was a parsnip - oh dear.
A road less travelled. We'd better hurry though...
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A footpath leading out of Horndon on the Hill, Essex UK.
I added some poppy-like blobs! (I know). There were a few poppies thee but I added just a few more. I was going to go over them and add a black dot in the middle so they looked more like poppies....but, well.... I think that might have overdone things!
Whilst walking around a small Loch the sun kept peering out and backlighting this little scene. I think its Lichen hanging down which is an incredible colour.
Back to the sunflower field where there is a distinct "end of season" feel to the place, although this one looks about ready to perform the finale. It's not quite Autumn yet although the weather has taken a turn for the worse. But in some parts of the world everything will already be waking up again.
Corringham, Essex UK
(SOOC exposure, 10:8 crop)
Part II ⬇️
Taken a while back, but experimenting with the same image in black and white and colour. I prefer the black and white, because for me the colour is rather a cliche... just a rapeseed field. The black and white has more drama and makes (for me) more of the sky.
(Credit to pinoyphotog for the title - thank you!)
Actually, this was a young girl dressed in a Regency style costume to tour the house at Lyme Park. There were quite a few people dressed up, just for fun. But my camera/lens struggled with the indoor lighting so most of the shots failed, except for this one where the back-lighting really helped :)
Plenty of grain again, but hopefully it adds to the atmosphere!
Thanks for looking!
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Praktica MTL3 / Optomax 135mm lens / Foma Retropan 320 film
Taken at film speed - developed in Ilfosol 3 (1:9, 9'15" with a little gentle agitation every minute)
During this strange disjointed week those who must work do. The rest of us can take photographs...
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A visibly quieter than usual A13 London Road, Horndon Footbridge, Essex UK. 07:40am Monday 30th December, 2024.
With a "chapeau" to Sam Nimitz who recently reminded me of the possibilities of these wondrous little dandelion heads. Merci, mon ami !!
If one gets the angles right raindrops can act as a fish-eye lens - these drops are on pixie-cup lichen and one can see the lichen plant through the droplet.
A selection of images taken from a photo shoot at Colwick Country Park, my local parkland. There was definitely a lot of action on the water including territorial defences, Grebes feeding and other groups of wildlife canoodling and pairing. Spring brings photographic opportunities to be further explored, an exciting time of year.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Nigel Stewart
More fungi - common bonnets I think but what a clutch. Mycena galericulata cascade in Epping Forest. When fungi come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
Leather bound editions, unopened. That is to say, the bindings are uncracked.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
100 yr old tree in Plaza Gabriel Miró, Alicante.
Viltrox 13mm f1.4 and XT5 …
Kodak Gold recipe Film Simulation: Classic Chrome
Grain Effect: Off
Color Chrome Effect: Weak
Color Chrome FX Blue: Off
White Balance: Daylight, +4 Red & -5 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR400
Highlight: -1.5
Shadow: +0.5
Color: +3
Sharpness: -2
High ISO NR: -4
Clarity: -2 (or zero if you can’t be doing with the slight lag when writing to mem card)
ISO: Auto, up to ISO 6400
SOOC … I didn’t even clone out the cigarette butt 😂
Part of my 'Duffus Castle through the seasons' project.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
River flowing through bridge arch turning to white water over rocks. I have driven over this bridge on the way to work for 10 years, not knowing what was beneath. Then one day as a passenger all was revealed.