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Unbeknownst to me my cell phone took this close up of my scarf in my tote bag :-)

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Take a picture of a nicely curved office building, turn it around, do some processing in Capture 1 Pro and finally play with the white balance.

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Milky Way over Llyn Trawsfynydd from September 2019

Reworked using Topaz DeNoise AI in Capture 1

Father Christmas on his sleigh (albeit towed by a Land Rover rather than reindeer) came to Rosedale early this year on 1 December - good to see the wonderment is still there!

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Captured: 1. Jun .2018. 04:00h UT+1

Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac

Telescope: SW Mak 180 on AZ-EQ6

Focal Length: ~7000mm

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S

Filters: RGB

Frames: R x 2000; G x 2000; B x 2000

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert2!, Registax, PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop

Captured 1 March 2022 at 10:42pm with 9 x 10 seconds of live stacking, cropped to 130 x 65 arc-minutes

Sounds better than opium poppy, of which this is the garden variety!

In spite of the easing of some Covid restrictions, York was a ghost town, with some of the areas normally crammed with tourists and shoppers, like the medieval Shambles, being almost empty mid-morning.

Take a picture of a nicely curved office building, turn it around, do some processing in Capture 1 Pro and finally play with the white balance.

Low mist in the valley, stretching across the Vale of Pickering all the way to the Yorkshire Wolds in the far distance.

The stone kilns and chimney can be seen middle distance left, peeping up above the clouds - toggle Z for a closer look.

Take a picture of a nicely curved office building, turn it around, do some processing in Capture 1 Pro and finally play with the white balance.

The remains of the ironstone miners' cottages at High Baring, Rosedale East.

Published in The Yorkshire Post on 3 November 2020.

One of the ancient waymarkers on the moors.

There was a tradition of leaving a coin on top of the cross when you passed by, so that poorer travellers could have some money to pay for a drink at the nearby Lion Inn at Blakey.

From August 2014 but re-processed in Capture One Pro 21 and Adobe Photoshop.

The old, historic packhorse bridge over the River Finn at Clady, near Strabane in Co Tyrone, N Ireland.

on the outskirts of the village of Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire.

Hobb is the Old English term for a goblin (as in hobgoblin), similar to the Irish leprechaun.

On the city walls looking towards Lendal Bridge, the Lendal Tower and the Minster in the background.

A pied wagtail on the graveyard wall.

The snowdrops are back and adding some cheer to the general gloom!

So good they named it twice!

A nice 1500cc example from the late 1950s.

Some wild flowers in a meadow just outside Rosedale Abbey, including harebells, knapweed and hawksbeard.

Check it out on large

Fireweed seeds caught in the grass

In Sinnington, North Yorkshire.

The bigger bridge in the distance is the main road bridge over the River Seven, whereas the smaller one, built in 1610, is thought to have carried a footpath over boggy ground.

The South Transept with its magnificent Rose Window bathed in afternoon sun.

The one-eyed barn owl soaring high in the evening sky over Rosedale West.

A very nice example of the Alvis TF 21 Series IV two door saloon, parked by Gillies Jones art glass studio in Rosedale Abbey.

Production of the TF 21 stopped in 1967, being the last model produced by the firm until the 'continuation' series started up again a few years ago. A new example of the TF 21 will cost around £250,000! This car was bought in 1971 for £700 by the current owner and is now worth around £100,000 in its present condition.

All Saints, the parish church in Kirkbymoorside (and from which the town derives its name) was built in 1250 AD on the site of an early 8th century timber church which was burned down in a Danish Viking raid.

The church had a number of additions made in the medieval period and was then 'restored' by the famous Victorian architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1874.

The striking, classic Ionic frontage of the main entrance to the British Museum

Beach casting on Sandsend, But only catching seaweed it seems!

The plant, also known as the beard tongue, is a favourite of bees.

In Parliament Street.

A seed head tangled with spider silk.

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Ripe hawthorn berries are some of the first signs of autumn, or fall, in Rosedale.

Looking from Ratten Row over to Low Baring in Updale.

The Painted Desert - Petrified Forest National Park

Arizona, USA

Perhaps, you come to appreciate clouds more when you live in the desert and enjoy photography. So many days, the sky is just solid blue. The summer monsoon season brings some wonderful clouds, but also, some impressive thunder storms. Still, the desert can always use some rain.

The very appropriately named Painted Desert is also part of the Petrified Forest National Park. It is located in the northeast part of the state of Arizona on a high (5,000 ft) desert plateau and extends beyond the park into the Navajo Nation. The park is somewhat odd, but interesting. Access is easy because Interstate 40 actually runs through the park with the Painted Desert being on the northern side and the Petrified Forest on the southern side of the highway. The summer can bring magnificent monsoon clouds, but the temperatures are often extreme (Expect every day to approach 100F and often 110F). We were lucky during our autumn visit with a moderate number of visitor, mild temperatures with some clouds. The air was wonderfully transparent. We were only there for a few hours on a return trip from Santa Fe, NM, but it was well worth the visit.

Most of the vistas within the park are expansive and without the impact of man made structures.

Nikon D850

Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 VR at 40 mm

Single capture

1/250 sec at f/9.0 ISO 64

October 18, 2018

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Sadly, our fine hare seems to have been attacked recently, showing an injury on its back - to compare, see www.flickr.com/photos/hectorpatrick/51238310274

In Rosedale, North Yorkshire, with Northdale Farm in the distance (toggle Z for a closer look).

... or harbour and home to the famous Craster kipper (smoked herring), one of the great food delicacies of Britain.