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Another image taken on foot, tucked away behind a bush, watching elephants come down to drink and play at one of the dams at Laikipia Wilderness Camp. I was really fascinated how the dust on this one's back lifted in a cloud as it sunk into the water.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F5.6, 1/1250 ISO 500
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I love Laikipia Wilderness Camp and the ability to get out of the vehicle and shoot wildlife on your own terms. This young calf was wary and hid behind it’s mother’s legs but eventually came out of cover to enjoy a drink from the still flowing river. Taken one evening along the riverbank hiding behind scrub and feeling privileged to watch a family of elephants enjoy the water.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F4, 1/400 ISO 2000
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Another image taken on foot, tucked away behind a bush, watching elephants come down to drink and play at one of the dams at Laikipia Wilderness Camp.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F5.6, 1/250 ISO 400
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#LaikipiaWilderness
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Bit of a murky shot tonight, one taken about a year ago that I never posted at the time and have just stumbled across again! Although we all love a good sunset, heavy fog is great at providing some real mood in an image, especially with the yellow lights in the Ashtorre Centre burning bright!
Something a bit different, I found this Compass Jellyfish washed up on the shores of Portwrinkle Beach during a dull and overcast photowalk with members from my camera club... the light wasn't great for landscapes but perfect for this.
How close can you go? I had lots of close encounters with elephants in Samburu. Just sit in the car and a herd will wander by as they munch their way through the foliage. This little guy just didn’t want us to go and gave us a little display while we waited.
Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 106mm F4, 1/320 ISO 320
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I can’t believe it’s been a month since I managed to get out with the camera, 3 weeks of feeling completely rotten and a further week where I’ve simply not had the energy to get out.
Recently we had an Autumn themed competition in the camera club and while looking for potential images I had a play with the “Indian Summer” preset on Nik Collection, applying it to a shot from Golitha Falls… taken in August, the filter effective changes all the greens in an image into oranges, which gives it a bit of a picture-perfect autumn feel.
It was a bit too perfect I thought to myself, and I wouldn’t have the gall to enter such a heavily altered image into a competition, so I entered one of my favourite leaf images… only for my image to fail to generate any love while the second place image was a heavily altered image that was taken in summer… you win some, you lose some!
I had a few hours to kill in Plymouth so I decided to try some abstract shots around town in an attempt to stretch my compositional muscles. I spotted the rear side of the new “box” building which is part of the museum regeneration. Framing the shot I waited for one of the local seagulls to enter the frame. And just to prove how grey the weather was yesterday, this is a colour image!
Spotting some nice colour developing in the clouds I made a quick dash to Sharrow Point last night after we’d put the kids to bed, could have done with being there a bit earlier but sometimes you have to take what you can get. Still managed to catch some nice pastel tones in the sky.
How close can you go? I had lots of close encounters with elephants in Samburu. Just sit in the car and a herd will wander by as they munch their way through the foliage.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F4.0, 1/2000 ISO 200
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Something a bit left-field from me today… we have a field next to our house where the local crows love to gather to pick over the remains of the field now the hay has been collected. Although there’s loads of crows, I had the idea of taking several shots once they are spooked and take flight and merging them into a single shot to intensify the image. What do you think?
One more shot from Polzeath showing the beautiful yet brief bit of light, sometimes it’s all you need!
On Friday evening I was left to my own devices so I decided to pop up to Great Staple Tor, hoping that I’d get some nice glimpses sun mixed in with the clouds. Unfortunately most of the sun action seemed to be off in the distance on the other side of Tavistock, but it was still nice to be out in the fresh air after a week in the office!
I’ve finally got around to processing some shots from last week when I visited Roche Rock with Shaun. You seem to see quite a few black & white shots of the chapel, so I decided to use the heather as a colourful foreground which compliments the sky.
While looking for something interesting to write I had a look a the wiki page for Roche, apparently “Roche is the Norman-French word for Rock” so what they have effective called the granite outcrop is “Rock Rock”… the Cornish do have a way with naming things!
My second shot from the fantastic sunset at Godrevy last Friday. I think I have a new favourite patch of rocks!
Another shot from Friday, this time from on the beach itself. I chose to present this one in monochrome as the black and white conversion really brought out the details in the clouds and reflections.
After a few lazy days I decided to get up this morning as the sunrise was looking promising with some nice high-clouds being forecast, unfortunately that prediction hadn’t accounted for the fog that shrouded the Tamar first thing! You can’t win them all so I decided to just revisit a favourite composition as I liked how the lights on the bridge glowed in the mist.
A shot taken on one of the club photowalks, and another take at a composition I’ve tried before… this time with the lights just being turned on, and contrasting with the blue of the dusk. Could really have done with a bit more water for a better reflection, but then again we never do seem to get the perfect amount of precipitation!
As you may have noticed, I’ve had a few weeks away from posting due to holiday and family commitments but today I’m back… first off I’ve got a few images from Spain to share, before we get back to my usual westcountry images. This was a rather stunning sunset at Cambrils, the evening after the most almighty thunderstorm had cleared the air… in fact, I think it was the most energetic and prolonged storm I’ve ever witnessed. When heading out to dinner we just ditched shoes and ran barefoot to the restaurant as the water was a few inches deep running along the paths!
Another take on the fabulous sunset at Kynance Cove on Saturday, I was trying to get a sun-star at the tip of the rocks but unfortunately the sun dipped below some clouds before that happened; still can’t complain too much when you have a view like this!
I must admit that I found it quite difficult to get my normal style of shot form Crete, partly due to much of the coastline being fenced off (presumably to keep us pesky tourists in our place and not disrupting too much of the natural coastline!). While I was out one morning I spotted the hills in the distance catching the morning sunshine which produced some beautiful layers.
Well, it seems I’m the only photographer in the South West who’s completely missed out on all the snow! This weekend we headed down to The Lizard and I ventured out on Sunday morning… although Kynance is on the west side of The Lizard, there were no clouds off to the east and a bank of cloud over to the west so I was hoping that the sun would rise and light up the clouds over the cove… unfortunately by the time the sun did rise most of the clouds had moved and my plan seemed to be falling a bit flat, but I was treated to an all-too-brief glimpse of a rainbow which nearly aligned with the famous rocks.
A trip to Foggintor Quarry on Dartmoor last night with the camera club, somewhere I’ve only been to once before. We were treated to some lovely light earlier in the evening which as seems to happen all too often, was snuffed out before sunset could really kick in. I had set a time-lapse going but unfortunately hadn’t checked the card beforehand and it ran out of memory just before the nicest part of the evening… doh! This is the remains of one of the old houses that were built there while the quarry was in use, but very little remains today apart from these two walls.
Another shot from my recent trip to Golitha Falls. I have to thank Shaun for this shot as he took these tree roots on his last visit and I really liked the pattern so I’ve taken my own version, they really do stand out nicely against the fallen autumnal foliage!
One from Sunday evening, where I made a dash to Sharrow Point to catch the sunset… it was a bit touch and go as the sun had disappeared behind some drifting clouds as I was driving there but they were still thin enough to let some colour through.
Samburu is a lovely place to watch elephants. We watched this pair meet and greet each other as they crossed the dried riverbed. The larger one chased the smaller one and then they tussled a little before eventually settling into an embrace.
Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 150mm F5.6, 1/800 ISO 640
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Sometimes it can take several visits to a location to start spotting the hidden gems, this is a tree I must have walked past many times at Golitha Falls but failed to notice its potential. I was struck by the size of the main branches and how grand it appeared in comparison to its siblings… I didn’t spend too long on this composition as I had to head off to work, but definitely one I will be returning to.
One from Wednesday evening, after I’d dropped my daughter to Cubs I had an hour to spare in Plymouth so I ventured down to the bridges to see how they look from the wrong side of the Tamar! :) Mirroring the shot you can take from the Cornish side, I used the steps to provide a lead-in line to the bridges and converted to monochrome as the sky was not overly exciting.
My wife and I had a trip down to The Lizard again this weekend so I managed to get a couple of sneaky photography trips squeezed into the weekend. The wind was still fierce which meant big waves and lots of very harsh downpours, which luckily make the light extremely moody. This was taken just after a hailstorm in 50mph+ winds where I had to take shelter for a moment as it felt like being sandblasted in the face!
I have to apologise for yet another shot of these trees!
Last week I made the journey to Colliford Lake with Shaun as he’s not been there for a while, and wow… how things have changed. On my first visit there this year only the tips of the tallest trees were visible in the lake, now some of the trees are completely out of the water so that’s a water level drop of at least 8 feet (and I feel that’s quite a conservative estimate)… we really do need some rain.
I was looking for a different angle to what I’d shot before so I decided to shoot down one of the rows, to show the symmetry of how the trees were planted.
Something a bit different today, one of the dishes at Goonhilly Earth Station… I love how they stand majestically above the trees!
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Tuesday we took a trip to the Royal William Yard with the camera club, not my usual sort of location as there's too many people around but looking up in a small courtyard gave an instant wow... queue lying on my back to make the most of it!
The classic composition of the Millennium Bridge with St Paul's in the distance... I knew I wanted to use a long exposure to blur the people out, but I hadn't accounted for the fact that the sheer volume of people introduced quite so much movement into the bridge itself, so I used several shorter exposures and merged them together in Photoshop.
On Tuesday I met up with Shaun from TimeSlip Photography and headed up to Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor for the first time… being the second highest point in Cornwall it is a bit steep to get up but you are rewarded with some stunning views over Crowdy Reservoir to the North and Brown Willy to the South. It was another of those evenings where a bank of cloud on the horizon snuffed out any chance of after-glow but it’s another place to head back to.
Watching the african sun drop below the hills in Samburu. A little earlier a herd of elephants had moved across the scene way beyond the palm trees and caused a lovely cloud of dust. I was too far away to get any shots.
Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 55mm F5.6, 1/640 ISO 80
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