65mm, 1/30s, f/5, ISO 400
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
Tuesday 8th November 2011
The next estate up from mine. Stoke-on-Trent is fairly hilly so wherever you go you're not far from a 3-dimensional view. I like how the houses appear stacked on top of each other when you zoom in to something far away.
270mm, 4s, f/6.3, ISO 400
270mm, 4s, f/6.3, ISO 400
Monday 7th November 2011
I made a little outfit for a friend's baby and persuaded Sam ted to model them for me. Poor boy.
54mm, 1/10s, f/8, ISO 400
54mm, 1/10s, f/8, ISO 400
Friday, 4 November 2011
Thursday 3rd November 2011
I am told this is the old 'Home & Colonial' store in Stoke. I don't know what it is now, or why it is lit up at night, but it's quite a nice feature.
155mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
155mm, 8s, f/8, ISO 200
Wednesday 3rd November 2011
Gorrillas in the mist. Well, more like trees.
76mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 200
76mm, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 200
Monday 31st October 2011
I quite liked this abused street sign in the glow of the street lamps.
30mm, 30s, f/8, ISO 400
30mm, 30s, f/8, ISO 400
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Sunday 30th October 2011
A slightly more atmospheric photo of the Nissen huts at Cultybraggan camp, see yesterday.
18mm, 1/200s, f/8, ISO 400
18mm, 1/200s, f/8, ISO 400
Saturday 29th October 2011
This is one of the Nissen huts at Cultybraggan camp. This weekend a friend and I headed up to Scotland to take part in the OMM (Original Mountain Marathon). The accommodation for the first night was in Cultybraggan camp, which I knew nothing about before arriving, and was fascinated to find it's a POW camp from the second world war. It was a called Camp No. 21 and was designed to hold category A or 'black' prisoners, the toughest and most fanatical Nazis POWs. When you walk into the huts, lit by electric lamps strung up on cables along the corrugated ceilings, with decaying curtains and no other real decor, you feel like you're walking straight back to the time it was built, especially when arriving in the dark, and it left a slightly ominous feeling over the event in which we were about to participate! The camp has been owned by the Comrie Development Trust, a group set up by local villagers, since 2007.
30mm, 1/6s, f/5, ISO 400
30mm, 1/6s, f/5, ISO 400
Friday 28th October 2011
An autumnal tree lined avenue next to Penrith Castle.
18mm, 1/20s, f/8, ISO 200
18mm, 1/20s, f/8, ISO 200
Thursday 27th October 2011
Another cider related photo, this is the press used to extract the yummy juice from the apple pulp, ready for fermenting.
70mm, 8s, f/5.6, ISO 200
70mm, 8s, f/5.6, ISO 200
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