28.01.13 - Happy Memories (2) Now that the snow has gone I've been trying to cheer myself up by working on some of the snowy pics from the last couple of weeks. I had some success by applying the Monday Morning filter in Color Efex Pro to some South Common images last week, this is a slightly older shot from Boultham Park. The filter works well with some images and not others, I think this is one of the better ones, and needs to be viewed as large as possible to appreciate the details in the trees. I think I would have liked a figure on the path, but there is also something nice about the empty scene i think.

I've been taking a photo every day for almost five years and posting to the main Smugmug Daily Community. That has got very large and impersonal, making it difficult to do justice to every wonderful photographer there. So I joined the alternative Daily Post Community as well, to get back some of the more personal feedback that can be missing from the bigger group. I've now been here well over a year, and loving every minute :)

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03.02.13 - Landlines

I love the way a bit of height brings out features you rarely if ever see down at ground level. I've shot this sort of thing many times before, lines in the fields shot from up on the ridge, but the patterns never cease to amaze me, like some wonderful natural tartan!

02.02.13 - Me

Just me and my shadow down by the river. It looks beautiful with all that big blue sky, but it was bitterly cold and I was shooting directly into a nasty north wind. One good thing is that the high winds of the last few days have dried the ground out a lot faster than I thought was possible

01.02.13 - Poinsettia

This didn't work out how I'd planned. I was taken by the beautiful colours and the way the light was streaming through our poinsettia in the conservatory yesterday morning. I tried different angles, crops and lenses, but nothing caught it quite right. Anyway, I'll keep trying :)

31.01.13 - The Night Train

A shot from last night's guided photo walk, and another new viewpoint! I've captured trains at level crossings, at night and during the day, with normal exposures and long ones. This is a 13 second exposure from a footbridge at the University. There wasn't a lot of ambient light here, I want to try this again a little bit earlier with some light in the sky behind the lit buildings.

30.01.13 - Storm Coming

It was an afternoon of big showers and strong winds. I thought I'd found a nice gap between storms for walking the dog, but I was wrong. We got caught in one big one, and almost got blown off the hill, but we did just beat this guy back home. This is quite a while after sunset, but the clouds were still being illuminated by the sun because they went so high.

When we got home we found that the wind had demolished our plastic greenhouse though, and I now have a major rebuilidng job for today!

29.01.13 - Oh Please Go Away..........

My Willis was running out of patience with the damn paparazzi last night :)

It had got late and I still didn't have a Daily, he just happened to be nearby!

28.01.13 - Happy Memories (2)

Now that the snow has gone I've been trying to cheer myself up by working on some of the snowy pics from the last couple of weeks. I had some success by applying the Monday Morning filter in Color Efex Pro to some South Common images last week, this is a slightly older shot from Boultham Park. The filter works well with some images and not others, I think this is one of the better ones, and needs to be viewed as large as possible to appreciate the details in the trees. I think I would have liked a figure on the path, but there is also something nice about the empty scene i think.

27.01.13 - The Last Snows?

This is a 3 shot photomerge panorama taken on Saturday morning but not processed until yesterday. The snow was just hanging on in there when I took this, but the thaw was well under way. It has all gone now, sadly, although many people will be glad to see the back of it. Not me though, I love it, hurry back Winter!

26.01.13 - The Big Thaw Begins

This was the first sign of the snow turning to rain yesterday. It got milder throughout the day, and overnight we had very heavy rain, so this morning all the snow has gone apart from two small piles where our snowman and snowdog used to be :(

28.01.13 - Happy Memories (2)

Now that the snow has gone I've been trying to cheer myself up by working on some of the snowy pics from the last couple of weeks. I had some success by applying the Monday Morning filter in Color Efex Pro to some South Common images last week, this is a slightly older shot from Boultham Park. The filter works well with some images and not others, I think this is one of the better ones, and needs to be viewed as large as possible to appreciate the details in the trees. I think I would have liked a figure on the path, but there is also something nice about the empty scene i think.