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Bearded reedling taking off from the base of the reeds - it's my experience that this is the best place to look for them.
Winter Weather
A morning planned for following the weather forecast, looking for snow and lots of it. I decided to head for Alston and Nenthead but took the long way round as heading up the Hartside Pass proved a little bit hairy near the café, that is when a mini cooper is probably not the best choice for a photographer lol. So after detouring around and back up to Alston and Nenthead, where I was treated to a whiteout. This was me heading back down over the Hartside Pass, this time hoping it was a bit clearer:) sideways;) Anyway this was the view looking down from Hartside into the winter weather that was happening in the Eden Valley.
Hartside Pass, Cumbria
Sony A7RII
Sony FE24-70mm f2.8 GM
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A long exposure of an old cruck barn on the edge of a lake.
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It's curry night tomorrow. I grabbed this for a shot before it goes in the pot!
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Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens. 11 image focus merge, 2s delayed shutter, ceiling light, merged and lightly processed in Affinity Photo..
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
So many times I've watched the twigs that reserve managers put out for kingfishers and always to no avail. Not yesterday - the female of the pair at Rainham Marshes (RSPB) posed wonderfully well all morning in and around the nest site.
Another shot from down on the south bank of the Thames, this time looking over to the ever-expanding roster of quirkily-shaped office buildings in the City.
In the centre of the frame here you can see the latest addition - 8 Bishopsgate, which is still being built, and nestles between 22 Bishopsgate and the Cheesegrater ...
This was taken with my vintage Sony DSC-R1 camera from 2005 ...
Had a strange hobby...
(Pink Floyd fans will get the reference. For the rest of you there's Google...!)
Peel me. I'm like an onion.
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Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens. 7 images manually focused and merged in Affinity Photo, natural light, WB 5000K, exposures SOOC, 11:8 crop.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
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Just back from a week in N Wales & had the Canon RF 14-35 F4 lens on hire. Didn't find a huge number of compositions to use the wide end on but this 30 seconds of light over Tryfan worked very nicely.
We hired bikes in San Francisco and cycled the Golden Gate bridge. On the SF side, the weather was cold and grey, but the sun was bright and warm over in Sausalito. Riding back again, the difference was shown in the shafts of sunlight hitting the hills and the bay - and in this case, the tourist boats too.
Late in the evening with a glorious sunset shining right on this beautiful bird. The last dive I saw because it disappeared in the long grass - perhaps with prey.
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.
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Dull. A description of the light not the scene. I had ventured on to Kielder with the slim hope of getting some sort of sunset but once I had searched out my compostion I could see it was not going to happen. So I decided on a very long exposure black and white image of the scene. I took a test image and then the photo, a 5 minute exposure with a hard ND grad 0.6 and a lee full stopper. After I took the photo, I decided to zoom in closer to remove a good bit of the sky and to retain enough of the water to have the full reflection. This one was a 8 minute exposure, you can appreciate how still the scene was as only the very top of the trees were showing movement. On getting the photo in lightroom I decided it needed to remain in colour and cropped 16:9, and here is the result. I'm still looking to do the first shot in black and white, we shall see. Long story short, "how to make a silk purse out of a sows ear".
There's been talk of disruption to the seasons, the natural cycle we're used to. Much of the UK is in drought. But seed dispersal goes on as it always has. Especially on a windy morning across the marshes.
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Fast glass on the Fobbing Marsh. Several attempts got me this shot.
Another image of Atlantic swell - the morning light catches a narrow strip of the waves so there are a lot of misses.
A rather dramatic black and white conversion using Silver Efex Pro2 on another grey and overcast day. I'm sure the weather forecast was for sunny intervals.
I very much like Williamthorpe Ponds and Nature Reserve but at this time of year it can be very challenging to get a worthwhile shot. With Ponds 1 and 2 it is difficult to get anything without having industrial units in view.
Following this Tern after missing the touch-down shot I was surprised and pleased to see the fish in its beak after downloading the images!
I randomly discovered a completely new vantage point from which to see some of the cluster of new skyscrapers which form the skyline of the modern City of London.
This is the junction of Old Broad Street and Liverpool Street looking south-east. Nice to get the new towers underlined with some more classical architecture.
Another tricky view to capture due to the breadth of the scene, but made possible doing a handheld two-shot vertical panorama using the shift function of my 17mm tilt shift lens. The dynamic range was pretty harsh as well due to the very bright white blanket of clouds hanging across London this afternoon. I may try a return visit when the light is nicer ...
Just rubbing along. No agendas, no dramas. Just a beautiful morning out on the Fobbing Marsh.
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SooC shot, no crop.
Fobbing, Essex UK
Always amazed at what comes through the garden when we are not watching - here's one of the most fabulous insects - the elephant hawkmoth. So brightly coloured yet when I put it out into the garden to set it free, it was almost invisible