Bottles found discarded in the ditch alongside a busy street.

Taken on a wet and windy day at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in January.

The long awaited restoration of the White Star Line building into the RMS Titanic hotel has finally been completed, and I popped in to have a look today. It is beautiful, this is just one of the stairwells. Here is a look at the rest of it :- www.rmstitanichotel.co.uk/

Black and white - pops of green. You know this screamed 'best of both worlds' when I passed by.

52 weeks of 2014

Some of the essential tools in my retirement. What are the essential tools in your SPARE time or retirement?...not counting your camera.......

View me here: www.fluidr.com/photos/katiedee OR; flickeflu.com/photos/35585734@N07; THANKS FOR LOOKING..........HAVE A NICE DAY

I know it's slightly flawed...but sometimes it's the flaws that make things interesting.

As usual, mike 90's judgement was spot on & to combat his comments I've warmed the mono part of the image, resulting in, I think a much more accomplished photograph. Seems to give it some atmosphere too.

VW Golf VR5. The engine is a kind of V configuration with 5 cylinders

Not the first time I have used this effect with the tower but it always looks good when the suns so low.

with a splash of colour. I found out today that i can do this in camera which is great fun.

For Sliders Sunday

thanks so much for all the lovely comments on this Autumn series

Phezulu safari park

Mr. Maurice Morris, local Margate man...

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Stutter Rap - Morris Minor & Majors

asdgraphy / momento.R

Clay figurines displayed at road side.

The city of Lancaster,viewed from ThePriory

Father and Daughter taking a walk in Braidburn Valley Park, Edinburgh.

Explore 315, May 23rd '07

This variegated holly bush in my garden still has plenty of berries. The birds have usually eaten them all by now. Perhaps a result of a milder winter.

117 pictures in 2017. #26/117. Selective Colour.

My vase is full of beautiful white flowers and lots of greenery! I noticed on the underside of this leaf lots of tiny bumps, I really don't know what they are as this seems to be the only one with them! x

Perfect subject for colour popping!

I couldn't get enough of this poppy field!!! Purple poppies all around.

Sony A850

Sony 70-300mm lens

Having not been to London for nearly a year, the first day of a 4 day weekend started revisiting places that I have been to before. I also added to my Football Stadium pin badges by getting one from each of the 3 stadiums. There will be a a visit to another stadium later in the year.

Assignment: PCA101 – Selective Colouring (Be Selective)

Date: Mar 28th - Apr 4th 2010)

Image Tag: pca101

From: Donald Macleod

Selective Colouring:

So, my return to PCA sees me contemplating the subject matter for Assignment 101. My thoughts immediately turned to the famous Orwellian Room 101 from from the novel '1984', a place where what you hate and fear most is used as a thing of torture to break the spirit.

An obvious initial thought was a compositional 'The thing I hate is..' but that kind of challenge doesn't exactly inspire, so my next thought was the photographic techniques that people love to hate.

Since we've already done HDR in PCA45, my next thought was the much over-used and controversial 'Selective Colouring'.

The Mission:

You challenge for this week is to produce and image that demonstrates that the use of 'Selective Colouring' can be effective and of artisitc and creative merit.

WIT

Two images. One of a wall in the Arts Centre cafe. The other is of my cup of coffee on the cafe table.

In PSE5, (as much as I can recollect), I selected the mouth and made a layer from cut from original image.

I then made the remainder b&w.

I made the cup into a layer, made it b&w and duplicated it.

As far as I can remember (aargh), I blended using hard light, but I think I might have multiplied one of the cup layers onto the background.

I always feel a little uncomfortable with 'borrowed' art, but I hope I made this sufficiently my own final image.

K8

A shot from the southbank. I have this thing for selective colour at the mo... its just a phase so stay with me..LOL !!

Some beautiful cupcakes made by a friend for my sister who is recovering after a hip operation. Aren't they lovely! :)

Another couple of the old buses on display at the Museum of Transport in Manchester. They have got such a great collection there and many are open to the public.

well the weather best change soon or i am going to explode with fedupness!!....

I wandered the house all day looking and even tho i have this i'm still not really happy with it.... i didn't really pay proper attention to composition etc either... probably because my heart wasn't in it!...

Any way sun.. if you can hear me............FOR GODSAKE SHOW YOUR FACE!!!... don't you realise there are some crazy fools trying to do a 365 here and we need you before we all give up!!!

I'm half crazy, all for the love of you;

It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage

but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two.

Arrgh...can't walk past one again :)

"Meeting you with a view to a kill

Face to face in secret places, feel the chill…"

(Duran Duran)

Public Lecture in the Great Hall,Edinburgh Castle

The kids are raising their hand for the dolphin touch opportunity. Some of the kids cried after not being chosen.

If my kids being chosen...surely they wont go .. they are still kind of afraid doing this kind of thing