One of the compensations of not being able to sleep: you get to see sunrises, night skies and in this case the moon shining through thin clouds (03:00 in the morning)

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(Explore #10)

This is my final upload for 2012, and I'd like to extend a genuinely heartfelt thank you to everyone who has dropped by my photostream or contributed in any way over the past twelve months. Your kindness of spirit is a primary motivator in forcing me out of bed at indecent hours of the morning to shoot scenes like the one above, and were it not for you I seriously doubt I'd have shot half the images I've displayed this past year. It's been a pleasure and a privilege to view the work of my contacts, and even though I find it impossible to comment on each and every single one I try to view them all. Social networking demands a commitment which can be difficult to balance with day to day life, yet how enriching it's presence is for artists working within a visual medium!

So, what for 2013? I'm not one for resolutions and unlikely promises, I find most invariably fail - yet by the same count it helps our progression to have at least some vague goal or goals in mind. Mine this year is simple, I wish to be a better image maker than I am now. I'm not entirely sure (in truth I suppose I'm not at all sure) what that means, so I may or may not be setting myself up for a fall. I'm not actively planning to shoot colour, or deviate from my favoured square frame, or diversify into high octane sports capture or celebrity reportage. Sorry about that. As much as I value your continued support I shall be shooting just what I feel like, which is the only way I know how to make photographs. I have a great deal of self-doubt about my own imagery and the direction it takes, along with the blessed times when I look back and think, 'you know, some of it's actually not bad'... I can see gradual shifts and trends in my own work as I'm sure you can in yours, and right now I'm just going to let those continue organically and see where they go of their own accord. This means if my closing upload next year is a timelapse video of butterflies wheeling around a breezy summer meadow it will be just as much a suprise to me as you...

Happy New Year for 2013 - I wish all of you good health and good luck in all of your endeavours whatever they may be.

In closing, it was great to bump into contacts Paul Wheeler, Scott Howse and Brian Crompton while shooting an outrageously high spring tide at Weston-super-Mare recently with pal Keith Aggett. Pleasure chatting to all of you guys, and hopefully we'll get together again before too long!

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Lake District,Cumbria,UK

Deserted chapel on the Broadford to Elgol road, Isle of Skye. Split toned for mystery!

Converted to sepia with with split toning on highlights to achieve the sky contrast

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This was the view facing out from the Mondavi vineyard in St. Helena, CA

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Peering into the skeletal remains of a barn in decay that is probably not long for this world.

Better Viewed Large On Black

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. -- e.e. cummings

Big Bear Lake, California

Better on black - press L on your keyboard.

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Lee big stopper + 0.6 GND

Canon 5Dmk2

17-40L @33mm

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desaturated version. On a hill overlooking the lake, an old red bench with peeling paint Pelican Pointe, Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. 27 October 2020.

More infrared. It's refreshing to have an alternative option for when the light becomes harsher than is usually good for colour landscapes. Or on this occasion a distraction at a time when I should really have been shooting in colour.

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Street lamp @ Lisboa

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Ever wondered what's at the back of Cradle Mountain? Photographed just as the sun was coming up, on the trek back from Scott Kilvert Hut with the Launceston Waling Club. Kodachrome original.

Nikon, D7100, infrared, Kolari, 720nm, filter, 85mm, f/1.8, H, manual, focus

Split-toned in LR

Proud of their purchase

Fascinating fight between light and dark by the English (southern) seafront. Eastbourne is a place I always wanted to go to after hearing the song "Eastbourne Ladies" by Kevin Coyne (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruq46r5PTds).

Also this is a test of the 3:1 format to see what it appears like on the new flickr. Seems like wide is better than tall when it comes to occupy space!

A split-toned, monochromatic image of the old pier at Aberdour, Fife, Scotland illuminated by 'God sun'.

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If you haven't been to Gothenburg, I'd like to point out that this is how most houses here look.

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The garden is full of neglected perenials. To my surprise a few of the hostas have weathered the dry hot humid August and delivered us a few very late blossoms - @ ƒ2.0

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I've been wanting to try focus stacking with macro photography, so I bought some toothbrushes thinking that the grid structure of the bristles would make tracking my focus spots easier. This is my first attempt composed of 7 exposures, which I combined in the free trial version of Helicon Focus. The software is fairly user friendly, I think. It gave me a warning message that leads me to believe that next time I should spend more time making more exposures, but this time I was just aiming for something that would give me a chance to try the software. For a quick trial, I'm impressed by the depth of field it's given me.