I'm going on holiday to Austria tomorrow, I'll be taking my final few photos while I'm away, and I shall upload them once I'm back.
18mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Tuesday 27th December 2011
This is my cousin Rob, and his youngest daughter Maisie. I love this photo, it's something a bit different and I think it conveys a nice sense of motion, an instance where the built in flash works really well.
I'm going on holiday to Austria tomorrow, I'll be taking my final few photos while I'm away, and I shall upload them once I'm back.
18mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
I'm going on holiday to Austria tomorrow, I'll be taking my final few photos while I'm away, and I shall upload them once I'm back.
18mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Monday 26th December 2011
Boxing Day, and my brother and his wife came round for another lovely meal, and this time it was time to cut the cake. All except the blue-hatted snowmen were made by hand by my mum.
270mm, 1/30s, f/6.3, ISO 400
270mm, 1/30s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Sunday 25th December 2011
Christmas Day, and into the final week of my blog! I'm at my parents for a few days over Christmas, yesterday evening on my arrival I was treated to a BBQ, and today the indulgence continued with Dad-made cocktails. This one is an Amaretto Martini, and very nice it was too. The flash also helped me to create a fairly black background without the aid of a studio setup.
85mm, 1/60s, f/5.6, ISO 400
85mm, 1/60s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Saturday 24 December 2011
Saturday 24th December 2011
Chestnuts roasted on an open... BBQ! Yes, on Christmas Eve.
76mm, 5s, f/6.3, ISO 400
76mm, 5s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Friday 23 December 2011
Thursday 22nd December 2011
Home grown parsnips, all ready for Christmas dinner! I'm quite proud of these, the ones on top are a little straggly but the ones on the bottom are good, strong, shapely parsnips, not as thick as the ones you get in the shops but they smell amazing.
42mm, 1/13s, f/5, ISO 400
42mm, 1/13s, f/5, ISO 400
Thursday 22 December 2011
Wednesday 21st December 2011
Fairy on the Christmas Tree. Thought it was time to include something festive!
54mm, 1/5s, f/5, ISO 400
54mm, 1/5s, f/5, ISO 400
Sunday 18th December 2011
The musical accompaniment to the Powderkegs Border Morris side.
100mm, 1/200s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 800
100mm, 1/200s (auto from aperture priority), f/5.6, ISO 800
Saturday 17th December 2011
The Picture House pub in Stafford, a really lovely building with really colourful stained glass.
35mm, 1/8s, f/4.5, ISO 400
35mm, 1/8s, f/4.5, ISO 400
Monday 19 December 2011
Friday 16th December 2011
No transport is really ideal in these conditions!
50mm, 1/50s, f/6.3, ISO 400
50mm, 1/50s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Thursday 15th December 2011
1980s wallpaper and 1890s flooring, in the derelict Oakhurst House, Ambergate.
18mm, 1/40s, f/4.5, ISO 400
18mm, 1/40s, f/4.5, ISO 400
Wednesday 14th December 2011
Not an amazing photo, but the layers of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire reminded me oddly of the sprawling city of New Crobuzon in China Miéville's steampunk novel Perdido Street Station.
100mm, 5s, f/8, ISO 200
100mm, 5s, f/8, ISO 200
Friday 16 December 2011
Saturday 10th December 2011
The Florence Colliery Band, playing valiantly in the freezing cold to an audience of 1 (and two more on the telephone)!
130mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
130mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Friday 9th December 2011
Another aquatic shot, the waving fronds of a coral.
2s, f/10 (approx), ISO 800
2s, f/10 (approx), ISO 800
Thursday 8th December 2011
Desperation tonight, I've been super busy at work and unfortunately haven't had time to spend on photography. So here's a second photo of the light in my lounge (first photo here)
20mm, 1.6s, f/22, ISO 100
20mm, 1.6s, f/22, ISO 100
Wednesday 7th December 2011
I loved the play of light across this washboard.
85mm, 1/4s, f/5.6, ISO 400
85mm, 1/4s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Tuesday 6th December 2011
This photo was quite a challenge due to the fluorescent lighting and the refraction of the water. After a little tinkering with the settings and some post-processing of the colours, I got it looking fairly realistic.
54mm, 1/100s, f/5, ISO 800
54mm, 1/100s, f/5, ISO 800
Friday 9 December 2011
Sunday 4th December 2011
Saggy roof tiles housing the workshops and steam engine at the Etruria Canal Museum.
85mm, 1/13s, f/8, ISO 400
85mm, 1/13s, f/8, ISO 400
Thursday 8 December 2011
Thursday 1st December 2011
Last month of the 365 blog! I went up to Hanchurch Woods because I had been told it was free of light pollution, and wanted to recce it as a star watching spot. Not exactly free of light polution, the orange glow is light reflecting off the clouds, but it made for a pretty photo!
18mm, 30s, f/11, ISO 200
18mm, 30s, f/11, ISO 200
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Saturday 26th November 2011
It questionable whether this is my best photo of the day, I have some nice ones of large lamps against a black background, but it's not every day I go to the rugby so I thought I'd post a rugby photo and this was my best one of those (shame about the official photographer in shot though). This is the New Zealand Ferns (left) and the England (right) ladies teams. England won 10-0 but New Zealand won this line-out.
184mm, 1/80s, f/6.3, ISO 800
184mm, 1/80s, f/6.3, ISO 800
Sunday 27 November 2011
Friday 25th November 2011
Home-dried home-grown chillies. I love the shininess of their dried flesh.
92mm, 1/80s, f/5.6, ISO 400
92mm, 1/80s, f/5.6, ISO 400
Wednesday 23rd November 2011
This is the descender (device used to go down ropes) I use when I'm caving, just playing with lighting.
33mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
33mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
Thursday 24 November 2011
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
I love this photo. What's more it was one of those evenings where I haven't planned a photo and I'm clutching straws about what to take. Snapping away at some ferns lately followed by a comment from a friend obviously inspired me for this shot, and it just goes to show that the 365 project is still inspiring me to some up with unexpected goods. This is a prayer plant that I've had many years but have never got to produce more than a handful of leaves.
270mm, 1.4s, f/8, ISO 200
270mm, 1.4s, f/8, ISO 200
Sunday 20th November 2011
Today was a relaxed but unexpectedly awesome day. We first went to Scaleber Force and went wild swimming behind the waterfall and into the pool. Then drove to Malham and walked to Janet's Foss and on up to Goredale. Here the mist fell and we just got to the road before the sun set, and managed to get back to the car in the misty twilight, neither of us having brought a torch. This is a photo of the beautiful Janet's Foss, the plunge section of the waterfall apparently being a screen of deposited rock on a layer of moss. I'm really pleased with this photo, in fact all the ones I took of Janet's Foss - it's hard to choose between them.
27mm, 0.8s, f/10, ISO 200
27mm, 0.8s, f/10, ISO 200
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Saturday 19th November 2011
This photo was taken on the second pitch of Diccan Pot in the Yorkshire Dales. There will be a trip report to follow on my sister blog soon, watch this space!
7.6mm, 1/74s, f/3, ISO 200. (auto)
7.6mm, 1/74s, f/3, ISO 200. (auto)
Monday 21 November 2011
Friday 18th November 2011
The impressive Falcon Manor hotel in Settle, Yorkshire Dales.
20mm, 13s, f/8, ISO 200
20mm, 13s, f/8, ISO 200
Sunday 20 November 2011
Thursday 17th November 2011
Home grown banana peppers. They're now turning a lovely shade of orange.
200mm, 1/60s, f/6.3, ISO 400
200mm, 1/60s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Thursday 17 November 2011
Wednesday 16th November 2011
This is Saint Werburgh's Parish Church on High Lane, Burslem. It was built in 1953 to replace a smaller church in Hamil Road as the congregation was growing larger. I've been meaning to try this photo for a while. I noticed the statue of Jesus but it's fairly hidden away to the side and under a tree. I had an idea that if I took a photo of the church at night and illuminated the statue more than the natural light illuminated the church, it would create a nicely balanced scene. I think it mostly worked.
18mm, 25s, f/11, ISO 200
18mm, 25s, f/11, ISO 200
Monday 14th November 2011
Window graffiti in Hanley. I was just walking through the city centre, and thought 'oh that would make a good photo', so, as I often do, I just stopped in the middle of the street, got out my camera, and took a photo.
23mm, 1/15s, f/8, ISO 200
This was an editing error but I think it's fantastically brain melding. I've done it before but wasn't sure how, not I understand how I did it (although it still doesn't make total sense!) and also it had the lucky feature of being centred around an un-moving door.
23mm, 1/15s, f/8, ISO 200
This was an editing error but I think it's fantastically brain melding. I've done it before but wasn't sure how, not I understand how I did it (although it still doesn't make total sense!) and also it had the lucky feature of being centred around an un-moving door.
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Sunday 13th November 2011
The day dawned misty and the rock was damp which frustrated my climbing friends, but it was a bonus for me as it meant I got a stroll down Padley Gorge with a couple of mates, snapping away at the autumn colours and rushing cascades. I find HDR works really well with water, as does a polariser, so I stuck the tripod in the water and got this, showing the water flow and some of the lovely bright green vegetation.
21mm, 2.5s, f/20, ISO 200
21mm, 2.5s, f/20, ISO 200
Saturday 12th November 2011
I was hoping for a shot of the fireworks in the greater context of their location (the land outside the Peak Cavern show cave in the Peak District), but that wasn't to be. A lot of my shots were over exposed because I was trying longer exposures in order to get the background to burn in, but this one just happened to fill the frame and I like it for that.
18mm, 16s, f/16, ISO 400
18mm, 16s, f/16, ISO 400
Thursday 10 November 2011
Thursday 10th November 2011
I made it back up to the colliery tonight (see yesterday), but with a friend so that I wouldn't get scared off by any hissing noises (there was still much hissing, but I realised it was probably owls). This photo represents various things I've been working on, one being the colliery (see previous photos here and here), and one being a silhouette of a person (which I keep trying down a cave, and failing on). This is one shot, no HDR, just with a bit of 'dodging' in photoshop. I think it looks a little un-real, which I really like about it.
20mm, 30s, f/10, ISO 400
20mm, 30s, f/10, ISO 400
Wednesday 9th November 2011
Tonight I thought I'd try a photo I've been want to take for a while, and walk up to the colliery. Trouble is I got spooked by some hissing noises before I got to my photo spot, and retreated. Instead I went for a different photo that was long overdue - Burslem town hall. This is a very impressive building built between 1854 and 1857. It was superseded as town hall in 1911 by a different building behind it. The novelist Arnold Bennett often mentioned it and referred to the gold angel on top.
18mm, 15s, f/10, ISO 200
18mm, 15s, f/10, ISO 200
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