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Industrial Saboteur, Chapter 8 (Finale)
The eighth and finale of a series titled Industrial Saboteur. Gearwheels and steel plates that might be fashioned into sculptures and abstracts. I had an idea the previous shot in this series was the finale but I wasn't entirely satisfied to leave it there so found one more in me. Resolution...
Here is the complete album. I hope you’ve enjoyed it! ⬇️
www.flickr.com/photos/bigharv/albums/72177720313773505/
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Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens. 15 images manually focused and merged in Affinity Photo, single diffused lamp light from above, manual WB 5,000K. Exposures and light SOOC in every way that matters.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
New Mill Yard Pumping Station - now closed for some 25 years.
New Mills Yard Norwich. tinyurl.com/4kt5386y and tinyurl.com/2s3fjezw
The building is a disused pumping station - Victorian - but oddly without all the lovely ornamentation that such buildings generally have. I found it difficult to believe that it was built in 1897 - it is in such good repair. We were very fortunate to be allowed in to take photographs.
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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We came to shoot the geese who have returned in large numbers. Usually I can rely on Freddie to steer them in my general direction. Except when I'm carrying a camera, well obviously...(insert rolling eyes emoji here...)
Fobbing Marshes, Essex UK.
A little reading material. I'd rather be doing but we can always learn something new...
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Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens. 7 images manually focused and merged in Affinity Photo. Single lamp to left.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One
Posted here as my tribute to a former colleague, mentor and friend who passed away yesterday, 2nd March 2022, after suffering an aggressive illness. He’s at peace now. One of the good guys, an artist and polymath, taken from us too soon.
We enjoyed sharing photography amongst other things so I like to think he would have approved of this image. Or if not he would have properly lambasted me for any obvious errors. We all need that from someone…
Rest in peace my friend.
3rd March, 2022
Shot from Canvey Island, Essex UK a little after sunrise 27th February, 2022.
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October, 2024 to Groups
I haven’t looked at this picture for some time, for reasons that will be obvious from my narrative above. But I’ve just come back to it, I do like it and there’s no real reason to hide it away. (791/26)
Gear Acquisition Shot. iShoot Tripod Collars for Canon's EF70-200mm f/4L IS II USM and EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lenses. Well, if you have £150 (for each) laying around get the Canon originals. Except you can't now. Even if Mr. and Mrs. Canon are personal friends. You still can't. So here we go.
Around £25 each from the world's largest online retailer. I had some misgivings but they feel solidly engineered and they work. I wouldn't necessarily trust them on a fully extended tripod on the deck of a ship during a storm but my intended use is to balance either of those lenses on a mini tripod no more than 10cm off soft ground, particularly the Macro lens. That's all I'll commit to for the moment. Roll on Spring...😎
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eurasian sparrowhawk ~ accipiter nisus (male)
Sparrowhawk is on the RSPB Green status list.
One of the photos I took on the sparrowhawk's last visit. As two weeks have passed without any sign of him I suspect he has moved on to hunt somewhere else.
Managed to catch the remains of the snow at one of my favourite locations.
Wish all my contacts a Happy New Year.
It is finished; I can't believe that I have completed 6 52/52 projects. A glorious hot, very hot June morning. We have had very little rain again and the run of from the decoy pond was almost none existent, just a trickle. Good numbers of mallard and coot with young but unfortunately no sign of the mandarin ducks.