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We had a shooting assignment in my camera club to do a photo series, with some limits. The required limit was using the same focal length in all images. The other one I chose was "in camera double exposure."

I have gone through a lot of emotional ups and downs in the past several weeks, and decided to do self portraits to convey my feelings, emotions and vulnerabilities.

So there are six in the series. I used my Lensbaby Velvet 56, and with each double exposure, I also moved while the shutter was open to create more of an abstract effect. I will be posting them, interspersed with my other posts.

#1 in Self Portrait series

Woolwich, London

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13000 tonnes of Norwegian rock to build this Y shaped groyne at Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire

olympus omd - lightroom - pureraw - silver efex pro - photoshop

Challenge sur Flickr : 086 : Scene / Panoramic

PSP**** : Pic and Song

ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ОБОРОНА : Name of a Russian Trash Metal Group : "Civil Defence"

ВСЕ ИДЕТ ПО ПЛАНУ : Song : The Work is on Schedule

Black Kite (Milvus migrans)

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) female

Belle was busy defending the nest from the Black Kite invader. It eventually moved on but no doubt will keep returning.

No time for photography this weekend. I have been cleaning up the back garden after the water board did the sewer re-lining. What a mess they left!

Natural defences - The immense cliff face of Waterstein Head looking out across the Minch.

Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides

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Used a LeeFilters Landscape Polarizer, a Lee Big Stopper and a Lee ND 0.6 Hard Grad.

Lines of clouds reflect the old wartime line of coastal defence

Wallasey Sea Defence

Sea defences old and new at Borth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK

One of the most recent coastal fortifications to fall. This castle built in 2014 fell the same afternoon after being subjected to a gentle but determined battering from the waves as they came ashore. Sadly the place where it once stood is now lost in the mists of time and only this photo remains as a record of its existence. :-)

Textures are my own

World War 2 Sea Defences Emerging From the Waves - Skipsea, Yorkshire

2 more pics of the fort gate at Fort Canning Park in Singapore. The steps led up to the roof of the structure but there wasn't much of a view from up there.

Groynes are a popular form of sea defence on the Norfolk coast. Coastal erosion is a particular problem in Overstrand and along the North Norfolk coast. Predictions of future sea level rise due to climate change are only likely to exacerbate this.

Only 4 in my theme this week Defences. In defence of our freedom Battle of Britain Flight at Airbourne Air Show, Eastbourne, Eat Sussex, UK. Taken from Beachy Head in 2012.

Freiston Shore

Lincolnshire

Cleveleys with Blackpool Tower in the background

The sea defences at Torcoss were built in 1979 in response a huge storm when the waves went over the top of the seafront houses causing major damage and the main road that runs parallel to the beach has been washed away a few times causing big transport headaches .Some of the seafront buildings are still under repair from Storms that have happened over the last few years .....Torcross,Slapton Sands,South Hams,South Devon,England

With a few exceptions, high rise offices and skyscrapers in Paris have been confined to the area of La Defence on the edge of Paris City Centre. Much like a Parisian Canary Wharf. This is the view looking up the Av. de la Grande Armee onto Av. Charles de Gaulle. The modern Grande Arche can be seen between the skyscrapers at the end. With the Arc de Triomphe at this end (where the photo was taken from) this makes an Arch at either end. I took a few hand held shots here and this was the sharpest without the use of a tripod. It was pretty windy at the time as well.

An image of IIIIIIII at La Defence, Paris, France.

I thought the strong vertical stripes and the street furniture, made for an interesting abstract composition, I had previously processed this in colour, but think it works really well in mono?

Its actually a ventilation shaft for the Paris RER line :)

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The Sea defences at New Brighton, Wirral.

RealitySoSubtle 5x4, Fomapan 100. Developed in Kodak HC-110, dilution "F" (1+79) for 12.00 minutes @ 20'C.

Scanned with my Epson V800.

The Euroa Magpies Goal shooter, goes up against the Shepparton Swans Goal Defence, in a match between the Shepparton Swans and Euroa Magpies.

Netball held at Princess Park, the home of the Shepparton Swans.

Number 2 in my Defences theme for this week. Ranthambore Fort, India taken in 2002.

Cromer, Norfolk.

River defences, Wapping, London.

Starr Gate, Blackpoo

Disappointment again! I managed to get this image shortlisted in this years LPOTY competition but learnt on Friday that it had not made it through to the book. This was taken at Low Hauxley last winter.

Opened by the Queen in 1984, the Thames Barrier cost £500 million to build and spans 520m (1,706ft) across the river Thames at Woolwich Reach, in south-east London.

The Thames Barrier is composed of 10 gates, which are raised monthly for testing. These gates help to regulate the flow of water in the Thames, which is a tidal river all the way to Teddington Lock in south-west London. The barrier stops tidal surges from flooding large parts of London, as well as during periods of high flow in Teddington Weir.

Text from Visit London - Thames Barrier Information Centre

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