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I spotted the potential for a nice sunrise this morning and as it’s now a slightly more palatable hour I decided to get up and have a trip out before work. I knew that the tide would be low, so not ideal, but it’s been ages since I’ve been to Millendreath so I headed there and started with my favourite rock which separates Millendreath from Plaidy beach.
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!
I have made several attempts to see Gerenuk over the years but have never been successful. This year I decided as I was already close by that I would head for Samburu where seeing a Gerenuk is almost a certainty. I was not disappointed.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F5.6, 1/1250 ISO 320
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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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One more shot from Polzeath showing the beautiful yet brief bit of light, sometimes it’s all you need!
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!
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?
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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This is the male cheetah that I have already posted a few high key shots of. This is when we first caught up with him first thing in the morning and he did move around a little. There were a few cars at the sighting which made it difficult to get a good uncluttered shot as he wove between the vehicles. He didn’t move far.
Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 106mm F5.6, 1/1600 ISO 1250
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First hike out with my new Scarpa boots in the Peak District. I replaced the old ones as they were never Waterproof despite the label. New boots past the test. Sadly the Sunrise did not. All the cloud disappeared shortly beforehand leaving me with a mostly cloudless sky.
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!
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.
My second shot from the fantastic sunset at Godrevy last Friday. I think I have a new favourite patch of rocks!
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!
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
Another High key shot of the male cheetah sitting still and observing in the tall grass. I had plenty of time to play around with different ideas for the exposure and composition. In this one I also managed to capture something flying in front of him. NOt exactly sure what it is as it’s tiny but I dodged it a little to make it stand out more.
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F5.6, 1/1000 ISO 500
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Something a bit different today, one of the dishes at Goonhilly Earth Station… I love how they stand majestically above the trees!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two male giraffes, Battling Giants, competing in a ballet of dominance.
Laikipia, Kenya March 2024
Olympus EM-1ii, 300mm F4, 1/1600 ISO 400
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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 we headed for Trebarwith Strand with our weekly club photo-walk and it was another glorious sunset on the north Cornish coast. I'd spotted these rocks during my last visit but the tide was too low last time, luckily the tide was just high enough to capture them with the water this time!
We visited my cousin in Calstock last night so I had to pop down to the river for a quick shot... no glorious sunset by the viaduct but I did find a nice boat resting by the Tamar.
I had to head into Plymouth on Sunday morning so I thought I’d make my way in a bit early so I could take a few shots during sunrise. This of course meant it was tipping it down with rain all morning so I decided to play with reflections in some of the puddles on The Hoe. Smeaton’s Tower is a well known landmark, so it’s always hard to come up with a different take on it, here I got really low to the ground (thank you tilty-flippy screen!) and used the reflection to mask off the rest of the grass to simplify the composition.
Bei dem Foto ging es darum, Bewegung im Bild fest zu halten. Gearbeitet habe ich mit einem 8x ND Filter um bei sehr hellem Licht auch noch eine lange Belichtungszeit hin zu bekommen für die Bewegungsunschärfe.
Fotografiert habe ich mit einer 1/6 Sekunde bei Blende 9 aus der freien Hand. Mit dem guten Stabilisator der Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II ist das auch kein Problem. Bis auf den Zug ist alles scharf.
Verwendet habe ich das Zuiko 12-40 Pro Objektiv.