18mm, 4s, f/10, ISO 800
Showing posts with label ghost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghost. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Friday 25th March 2011
It's typical of Stoke that you can wander through a park and come out the other side and find remnants of days gone by. I found a tunnel with a trickling stream, running underneath an abandoned railway siding with rusty freight carriages. I followed the old siding to a bridge that goes over the active section of the railway, although the bridge looked reasonably well aged.
18mm, 4s, f/10, ISO 800
18mm, 4s, f/10, ISO 800
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Thursday 10th March 2011
I previously mentioned the Harecastle Tunnels - two canal tunnels (one still in use and one collapsed) and two disused sections of one railway tunnel - all built in the 1700s and 1800s and all 2km long. Today I went to the southern portal of the canal tunnels and met two lovely gentlemen who were sprucing up the paintwork, who showed me around and gave me a little history.
The canal tunnels were built before narrowboats were powered and in the Brindley tunnel (built 1770-1777) the boatmen 'legged' the boats through the tunnel while the horses were walked over the hill. This, the parallel Telford tunnel (completed in 1827) was built with a towpath for horses. The Brindley tunnel collapsed and when boats became self powered fans were installed in this one to extract the exhaust fumes. This tunnel is rumoured to be haunted by the Kidsgrove Boggart, a woman who was decapitated with a piece of slate and dumped in the canal and who is looking for a replacement head.
18mm, 25s, f/9, ISO 100
The canal tunnels were built before narrowboats were powered and in the Brindley tunnel (built 1770-1777) the boatmen 'legged' the boats through the tunnel while the horses were walked over the hill. This, the parallel Telford tunnel (completed in 1827) was built with a towpath for horses. The Brindley tunnel collapsed and when boats became self powered fans were installed in this one to extract the exhaust fumes. This tunnel is rumoured to be haunted by the Kidsgrove Boggart, a woman who was decapitated with a piece of slate and dumped in the canal and who is looking for a replacement head.
18mm, 25s, f/9, ISO 100
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Sunday 23rd January 2011
I have Gasman (my first follower!) to thank for this idea. He told me about 'multiple exposure', where you take two photos on one piece of film (or the digital equivalent). Unfortunately my camera doesn't let me do this, Canon dropped the feature on their DSLRs as it's easier to do it in post-processing. However post-processing, barring enhancements that make the photograph closer to how it was in reality, seems like cheating to me, so I decided to have a play with a trick I read about to achieve a similar effect. You need dim light and a long-ish exposure, and move part of the subject half way through. The moving subject here was myself.
The mood is my mood this time. I've been feeling a little odd this weekend, spent most of it on my own doing useful stuff around the house, but I really wanted to be with company, and anywhere else, so I felt a little detached from reality. Ghost-like.
21mm, 10s, f/11.0 (auto from shutter priority), ISO 200
The mood is my mood this time. I've been feeling a little odd this weekend, spent most of it on my own doing useful stuff around the house, but I really wanted to be with company, and anywhere else, so I felt a little detached from reality. Ghost-like.
21mm, 10s, f/11.0 (auto from shutter priority), ISO 200
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