Yesterday we had a drive out West, we’d hoped for some interesting cloud/light combinations but instead it was all flat grey on the way through. Driving back the light was fading but I didn’t want to not take a photograph and so I settled for this view, I did not have a tripod with me and the light wasn’t brilliant so I rested the camera on the car roof 😉 This morning the cloud looked like it was going to cover the entire sky after looking fairly promising early on,…
Read MoreMonth: January 2011
In 1976….
….Blue Öyster Cult sang a jolly little ditty (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, well, I don’t 😉 I do fear however fear the new sketchbook that arrived yesterday. Strange thing to fear really a sketchbook, but this is the A3 Moleskine folio sketchbook and I just know the first thing I attempt in it will be dire. Perhaps I should put it on a shelf for a while and let the fear and nerves subside – or maybe I should grab a pencil and attack it until it submits 😉 On…
Read MoreFrosty
A couple of images from our little World, well it feels like a little World as the fog has been quite low for a few days meaning you couldn’t see very far at all. Thankfully the fog has cleared along with the frost this afternoon.
Read MoreOur Own Devil
Following my post this morning of a few early morning photographs, I wondered how I could use one of them to incorporate the quote by Oscar Wilde we are each our own devil and we make this world our hell. So after a little photoshop work…
Read MoreDarker than normal
When I returned home this morning I was a little disappointed, I had intended having spent a while on the way home stopping off at various places for misty morning photographs. Sadly the weather wasn’t really suitable – being thick fog and black ice on the smaller roads. Next to where I park the car there is a small wooded area, the Moon was just descending towards the horizon and had dipped beneath the tree tops, I stood for a while looking at the way the Moon lit the scene…
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