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Clitheroe, Lancashire
Last Saturday we decided to get out and about with the intention of heading to Hebden Bridge, however, there was a Steam Punk festival on that weekend and we thought it might be chock-a-block and difficult to park, so we opted for Plan B and Clitheroe, purely down to a recommendation of a work colleague of Mrs R.
Now, we've never been to Clitheroe and I very much imagined it to be a down trodden northern mill town that has seen better days. Much like Bolton with more than its fair share of betting shops, pound shops and the all too familiar "gone out of business" boarded up shops, but more depressing... how wrong can one be!!!
But first things first, our Saturday morning ritual starts with a weigh-in... I've lost count of the number of diets we've tried over the years, but this one seems to be doing the trick and reaping good results. Personally, I've found best results are obtained by standing on the scales in the buff whilst hanging on to the ceiling light... well... every little helps! Which reminds me, it must have been a wee bit chilly early Saturday morning judging by the expression on Mrs R's face.
Did I really write that or did I just say it in my head...?
Anyway, I'm now down to my lowest weight in probably the last five years and so a slap up breakfast was firmly on the cards - after all, I've got another week to lose it all again. The drive to Clitheroe was pretty straight forward and we duly arrived way before 9am. Not expecting many places to be open, we were surprised to find a cafe just opening - Brioche. A couple had just beaten us in but there were plenty of tables so we sat in the window watching the world not go by. Now, when you're craving food (and I'm not talking any of that muesli crap) there's only one meal to start the day. However, not wanting to undo all the good work of the past week, I studied the menu for "healthy" options - I know, who am I trying to kid! There was the "standard" breakfast or the "big" breakfast... being a numbers sort of guy I noticed that there was only a couple of quid difference between the two, but the big breakfast was pretty much two of everything - 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 2 eggs, mushrooms, beans, tomato and black pudding as well as toast. The economics of the two was a no brainer - I ordered the "big".
But all this is just small talk - the two places we were recommended to visit were the Food Hall and Beer Hall in the Holmes Mill (more of that later) and if we got chance, pop in and have a browse around D. Byrne & Co. To be fair, neither of us are big drinkers and know nothing about wine, whiskeys or gins, but this is an Aladdin's cave of alcohol. There isn't a single square inch of space on the walls that isn't covered by bottles, and there are a further couple of rooms equally as packed. Well worth visiting for the array of drinks on offer... I can think of several people here in Flickr land who could pass a day in here.
I'm sure you can get the odd bottle cheaper at Tesco's but this is for the real connoisseurs with prices to match. This is the main man himself - Mr Byrne, a most helpful gentleman and obliging to us togs. Needless to say, a few bottles were purchased including gin, which we got a liking for on holiday... chink chink cheers!
Footnote...
Judging by the shops and cars in Clitheroe, it's clearly an affluent little town, but it was an overheard conversation in a local newsagents that sealed the deal. For those of a certain age, you might remember the Yellow Pages advert (1983) featuring a Mr JR Hartley and a copy of Fly Fishing. Roll on nearly 40 years and we've just gone into the newsagents for a bottle of water. We passed the only customer who stopped to look at the magazine racks on his way out having just paid for a few items. The shopkeeper enquired if there was anything else he could help with? The man replied "I was hoping to find a copy of Investors Chronicle, you wouldn't happen to have a copy?"... if that's doesn't ooze wealth then I don't know what does, unless you all subscribe to it!
I'm here all week, thank you and good night!
My intention was to stitch 5 HDR tiles into this ultra wide-angle panorama, but since DxO OpticsPro 11 has a nice and flexible way to achieve the same thing with single-shot HDR filter, I gave it a try.
And I have to say, stitching in Hugin + applying the single-shot HDR filter + fine-tuning takes a lot less time than HDR tonemapping in Photomatix, then stitching in Hugin, etc ... The result might lack "vibrance" or that "HDR something", but in some cases I think this will work better. :-)
Our intention that day was to visit high points on the surrounding hills where radio masts were located, as that is the likely location of good butterflies. However the one we initially aimed for had no obvious route there and another we did reach was not a good spot, so we mainly stopped beside the road at various places.
A species I have seen occasionally. I was particularly pleased to get a decent dorsal photo of it which is often hard to get. My only previous such photo was of a very damaged individual.
My take on today's page. A letter to myself with how I intend to live this year. Along with some wisdom gathered from friends.
The intention had been to go for one of the shots at Angrholm but with the stubborn cloud in Mallerstang not moving we opted for the easy shot from the B6259 overbridge.This was fortunate as there was no exhaust at Angrholm and the light did improve briefly for us,
Note - an awkwardly parked car and unsightly mast have been removed from the pic
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It wasn't my intention to capture this scene I truly only came here to enjoy the outside for a while with a flask of coffee before heading back to the confines of my house. But then with the stars still visible, a faint glow across the sea and those pink clouds on the horizon, how can I resist! :)
N'entre pas dans la boîte à rêves,
si tu ne connais pas le code secret,
car ils ne sont pas toujours bien intentionnés
Opale était rentrée, elle n'avait rien écouté,
et maintenant les yeux grands ouverts,
elle errait, seule maintenant
la lumière s'en était allée,
avec les beaux jours, les fleurs, les papillons, et les chevaux ailés
la lune blafarde par moment l'éclairait
un crapaud au regard cercler d'or la regardait
elle sentit un frémissement dans l'air leva les yeux,
et vit le grand-duc qui s'envolait il la regarda,
lui qui par habitude était peu bavard,
lui souhaita une bonne soirée,
soudain elle faillit tomber, et poussa un cri,
son pied s'était pris dans une racine,
elle avait l'impression qu'un des arbres;
lui avait fait un croche pied,
fatiguée elle s'assit et réfléchit,
il fallait qu'elle retrouve le code secret,
elle regarda le ciel,
mais ne vit aucune étoile pour l'aider,
la lune soupira et demanda aux lucioles de l'aider,
Opale avait l'air si désemparée
alors les lucioles se rapprochèrent de la jeune fille
et dans l'obscurité, dessinèrent le code secret ....
Copyright - © Blue Celt Hugo ( MT )
The intention was to drive across to Tenby (roughly 1hr 40mins) to capture a stunning sunrise over the harbour.
I set myself up and rattled off a few exposures to check my composition. Soon enough the rain set in and put to bed my idea of a glorious sunrise.
Instead I came away with this shot of the harbour during the blue hour at sunrise.
Guess his intention... 😬😎😜😋
(All I can say is he doesn't plan on getting married)
Noun: intention -in'tenshun-
1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
"good intentions are not enough"
2. (usually plural the goal with respect to a marriage proposal
"his intentions are entirely honorable"
3. An act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out
"my intention changed once I saw her"
My intention was to be there at sunset but I stopped too often to see things along the road and the sun was gone. It's only 2,8 km from family's home in a very small village in Zeeland, Netherlands. The farmer will cut off the flowers in June and only sell the bulbs. My father-in-law told me they ate tulip bulbs during the WW II to survive. Maybe I should try tulip cake.
The intention this morning was to go to Avebury paul has a new lens so he was desperate to try it but as ever things don't work out as you expect.
the drive to Avebury looked very promising lots of low cloud/mist a slight covering of snow/ice. but that was on the way, Avebury nice but clear, so we headed for the edge of west woods hoping to walk through to Pewsey vale not to be i am afraid we walked a long way found some great locations on the way but not what we expected which is so often the case.
This image was taken on the way back to the car.
the wife has a list of jobs for me today so had to be back at a reasonable hour but a nice walk and worth going back to.
@ the Abyss (I jumped over the fence(no-fly region) to take this and I didn't even add a frame. The SIM really is this beautiful)
find the larger size here or press L to view on black
This is (well in the boundaries of a superhero-story ) how i picture a variety of a bellicose species, who travels space to find War(well apart from the heels...but i had no other red scifi-shoes>.< )..... She is a Mercenary.
Recently remembered buying this bottle of wine 10 years ago with the intention of drinking it in 2020 for the purpose of celebrating the new addition to our family.
A head I was painting frosted up from this crappy weather. SECOND TIME THIS WEEK.
One crappy over-exposed Endo shot + 29 layers and 2.5 hrs. For my pissy-feels.
Go watch Rise of the Guardians if you haven't.... It's really cute. <3
In the meantime, I'm just gonna weep. Heads wanna go home. *sighs*
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
Explored 3rd February :)
It matters little what you bring home when you return,
what matters is the gentleness of your intention,
walking ahead of you before your footsteps arrive.
⁛ And so, the weight becomes light in the hands of intention.
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Revised a couple I'd already done tonight .. really liked the colour versions - especially of this one - but I had intended for them to be monotone .. so here we are..
Olympus OM-1 w 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/3.2 0.3ev 40mm
Single frame raw developed in DxO PHotoLab 7, colour graded in Nik 7 Silver Efex Pro, tweaked in Topaz AI-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Sydney, NSW
The intention was to let this photo looks like a painting from an old master - the scenery burned it into my head ;) The original scene was taken in the parc of Castle Basedow - Mecklenburg Vorpommern/Germany. So no mountains was seen in the background! ;)
A 'normal' version of this photo you will find here:
My intention was to capture Aurora Borealis over this old mill near Wiarton, Ontario. I set up my camera and captured a few photos as sun was setting to get the mill illuminated. I ended up using a 3-shot HDR created in the Canon DPP software as the illuminated photo,
The three photos were taken with:
F8
ISO 100
shutter speed - variable
same lens as below
I then ran my camera for a little over 4 hours with the following settings:
Canon SL3
Tokina 11-16 lens at 11mm
15 sec exposure
F2.8
ISO 1600
I used StarStax to create the star trails and then masked the illuminated HDR in to give the mill some presence.
I used Pixelmator Pro to layer the HDR and StarStax photos and to mask.
I am still learning how to do all of this but thought this was a pretty good representation of the star trails with the mill visible.
I did not want to overprocess this with too much exposure or colour but might do so if I play with how I want the photo to look.
If you zoom in and see all sorts of short bright lines or dots, that will be the hundreds and hundreds of fireflies that were out. I made no attempt to remove them from the stacked images.
Any suggestions on ideas for processing shots like these, I am all ears. I think I have edited this about 4 times. This is a cooler temperature and I like it much better.
My intention this week was to get some shots of the wheat fields around my workplace until I stumbled across this little ladybird scuttling up and down one of the wheat heads - I'm loving the smooth, blurred background in this shot.
All views, favourites, comments and feedback are appreciated - thank you!
Our intention that day was to visit high points on the surrounding hills where radio masts were located, as that is the likely location of good butterflies. However the one we initially aimed for had no obvious route there and another we did reach was not a good spot, so we mainly stopped beside the road at various places.
I always like shieldbugs This one is different to any I recall previously.
The intention for the day after Christmas was to chase the once-weekly Pan Am unit slurry train BFPO (Bellows Falls VT to Portland ME) along district 3 before the expected mid-day cloud cover. After a delay (this is Pan Am after all), the train was eastbound just after 10AM. This was probably the location that worked best for me, with ex-QNSL SD40-2, now GATX owner, MEC 3404 and friends getting 66 tanks east of the Rodney Hunt crossing in Orange MA. As a bonus, even managed to hide a bit of the second unit, a yellow LTEX leaser, the bane of Pan Am fans these days.
Whether the original intention of this Totem-Artwork was to bring the apparent opposites industry and nature together I have my own interpretation. I brought together black and white. Black as a color which presents the coal mining industry and as an opposite, white which is standing for cleanliness on the one hand. On the other hand white is a physical sum of all other colors and the Ruhr area is also connecting different contents e.g. industry, nature, history, different cultures or the typical mentality of the people living here.
Obwohl es die eigentliche Aussage des Totem-Kunstwerkes auf der Halde Haniel ist, die scheinbaren Gegensätze von Natur und Industrie zu verbinden, habe ich mit diesem Bild mal meine eigene Interpretation umgesetzt. Ich habe als Kontrastfarben lediglich Schwarz und Weiß vereint. Schwarz als Farbe, welche bildlich für den Bergbau der Region steht und Weiß als Kontrast. Im Gegensatz zu Schwarz steht Weiß hier für Reinheit auf der einen Seite. Andererseits ist Weiß auch die Summe aller sonstigen Farben und immerhin vereint auch das Ruhrgebiet die unterschiedlichsten Dinge wie z. B. Industrie, Natur, Geschichte, unterschiedliche Kulturen oder auch die typische Mentalität der Leute, die hier leben.
the intention was to capture some great creste grebes or swans or herons... or what ever... but this dragonfly was the eyecatcher of the morning. And it`s a matter of fact... you only reach beauty with a bit of a pain.. she was sitting right in a group of stinging nettles :=))).
a beautiful demoiselle
I had every intention of posting pics of how our place looked over Christmas before the gifts were unwrapped and the North Pole shut down for the off season, but the chaos of Christmas & all the befrazzlement it caused simply prevented me from doing so any earlier than now. Up until last night I had resigned myself to the fact that sharing these just wasn't in the cards for this year, esp. with all the Christmas hullabaloo gone or fading so fast, I didn't think it was still worthwhile to do so, however a few sweet friends have been giving me the push I needed to get these up here, Christmas over or not. So this is me squeezing some in before the year switches out. At least they are still this year's pics! P.S. Hope everyone had a really happy Christmas. There is a beautiful fresh new year upon us... I hope it's a great one for all!
My intention two days ago, on 4 October 2017, had been to drive some of the back roads a bit further north of where I have been two or three times before, almost as far as Olds. However, after finding myself on a couple of muddy, slushy, potholed country roads caused by our recent snow storm, I decided not to risk driving on any others. I ended up stopping and photographing a couple of my absolute favourite barns that I had seen a couple of times before, and was happy to see again. I first discovered the old barn in this photo - or is it a homestead? - on 28 October 2014.
My final stopping point towards the end of a day of driving N and NW of the city, was at the site where the McDougall Memorial United Church had stood. On 22 May 2017, this beautiful, historic church was burned to the ground by an arsonist. Such a very sad loss! Such a sad sight to see the burnt outer walls, knowing that that was all that was left of this special little church that was almost as old as Canada itself. I loved this little country church, especially the long, photogenic fence line leading up to it from the parking lot. The church was built in Carpenter's Gothic style of architecture. A sign had the following words on it:
"The historic church at the end of this pathway was constructed in 1875. At that time, native people were still hunting bison on the prairies. The young nation of Canada was only eight years old; the Canadian Pacific Railway still nine years in the future. And this church would become the heart of a thriving community, Morleyville, and for a time the largest settlement in what would be southern Alberta.
The story of this church is really the story of Rev. George McDougall who moved to western Canada with his family in 1862 to minister to the fur traders and native people. In 1873, the McDougalls established the first mission in the region and built this church. In doing so, they wrote an important chapter of Alberta's settlement history".
After George McDougall's tragic death in a snowstorm, his body was brought back to the church at Morleyville and laid to rest.
www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8788
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley,_Alberta
An enjoyable day out - a barn day, not a birding/wildlife day. I think the only birds I noticed were the usual Ravens. Seeing that snow is once again in our forecast in a few more days, I wanted to get this drive done while the weather was still decent. Today, the temperature is 16C with a heavily overcast sky. A day for hopefully getting a few errands run, and not taking photos.
I left Portland at 9:30 with the intention of shooting a couple waterfalls hoping to get in a few shots before fall was completely over. By the time I got to the edge of Troutdale I noticed it was a little to late for leaves to be left on the trees, there were only a few left. As I was driving I noticed all the fresh fallen snow on the high hilltops. I thought I might try driving up to Larch Mountain, but I assumed the gate would be closed. The entire way up I followed another car in front of me (I was glad to see another car on the road as the snow and ice became thicker and thicker) who turned out to be rasone, another flickr member.
The light was getting a little harsh as the sun moved higher into the sky, but it was worth it just to be one of the first (well...second :-) people to explore this fresh winter wonderland. We both imagined what it had looked like at sunrise on this day, but agreed it was probably to icy to venture a car ride all the way up.
The best part about all this is, on our way down we ended up passing a snow plow headed up. I wonder if they were on there way to close that gate on Larch Mt Rd at mile post 10. I'm going to miss the autumn leaves, but I am looking forward to plenty of winter shots ahead.
And now, I will try to get some sleep before I have to get up in an hour and a half :-)
I actually have no intention to post this shot. Really the purpose of this photo was to help a friend to take some interesting sculpture images for her project back in June 2009. Well being a nice guy (as always :P), its pretty easy work for me. However her project didn't quite go ahead so all the sculpture shots i've taken are pretty much sitting ducks in my hard drive. It was until early this yr, when I was approached by the editor of National Tiertiary Education Union, who wanted to purchase a sculpture image for a book cover however it has to be located within the premises of a university. Bingo! It does help to have all sort of shots ready in your folder :D
End of the day, the moral of the Artie's story is
Good karma will come your way one way or another when you're willing to lend a helping hand to others! ;)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MUMS OUT THERE TOO !!!
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About
Dual sculpture located opposite Engineering South Building in the North Terrace Campus of Adelaide University, South Australia
Year: 1978-9
Dual was commenced in 1978 and was built with steel that was purchased for him by Max Lyle. This is another of Johns work which concentrates on the circle as a functional form; in this case, he is experimenting with ideas of creating a partnership in the form by breaking it in half. It was first installed on the lawns of the Barr Smith Library, but was moved to the Adelaide University grounds after being damaged and vandalised.
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) in RAW taken handheld using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'curves' for different section of contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) for overall desaturation
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues) to enhance the glass
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to desaturate any harshness
- Use 'free transform' to slightly correct the wide angle distortion
- Applied noise reduction
Music
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