Jenny and I had a lovely couple of days in Bruges having travelled there on the Eurostar to Brussels. The weather was spectacular – the sky was really this blue! Hardly any Lightroom “enhancements” to these images. These shots were taken very close to where we stayed in the Pand Hotel and it’s […]
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A final set of shots from the trip taken at Rydal Water and “featuring” … The Boathouse. An exercise in composition. I’d be interested in hearing which one you like best, and why? [EXIF: 1.6sec @ f/16; ISO 50; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS @ 63mm] [EXIF: 1.3sec @ f/15; ISO
Having not had the best of weather on Walna Scar we headed for Tarn Hows, a NT site which has a lovely walk around the lake. Lots of pictures taken, but none that really stood out. The one above I quite like because I think it’s nicely framed and there are some half-decent foreground
Four shots with no connection between them. Above, a different view of the Langdale Pikes taken from above Chapel Stile. [EXIF: 1/30 @f/16; ISO 200; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS @ 69mm] Above a farmhouse near Chapel Stile in Great Langdale. [EXIF: 1/320 @f/8; ISO 200; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS
Langdale and a Rainbow Read More »
Waiting to catch the light! Something that marks you out as different from the tourist photographer who doesn’t have the time to stop and wait. On a cloudy day you have a number of options: 1) wait for the sunlight to break through in the places you want to accentuate and focus on; 2) avoid
I’ve been on quite a few photo workshops with Nick Jenkins – I think my photography is improving, but can I be sure it’s down to his tuition??? One of the regular problems I have when I start a workshop is “getting in the zone”. The leader takes you to a place and says, “there’s
With Nick in the Lake District Read More »
Here’s a challenge … which one of these two do you think is the better composition? Of course you might not like either of them, but tell me which one you think tells the story of the landscape best, and why? [EXIF: 1/125sec @ f/13; ISO 100; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS
I couldn’t let the sunsets of this week wait until the sequence of scheduled shots that are due to appear on this blog over the next few weeks have finished, so please excuse this exceptional blog post of images with exceptional colours. The first image was taken on Tuesday evening after Jenny phoned me and
Spectacular sunsets Read More »
I have to admit, I do like silky water shots – it must be my past history as a fluvial geomorphologist that keeps on drawing me back to taking this kind of shot. So following on from my last post here’s absolutely the last shot from Stainforth Force. [EXIF 1/15sec @ f/22; ISO 50; Sony
This location has always had a bit of a tug on my memory strings, for more than one reason, one very good, one nearly very bad! It was here on my first photo workshop with Nick Jenkins that the penny dropped for me on how to compose an image, rather than just take a picture.