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Young Ent

Graeme — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:16:31 +0000

Decided to sketch a young Ent today Now to try one in colour.

Patches of Light and Green

Graeme — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:25:48 +0000

Went for an early morning wander and spent a little bit of time watching the patches of light come and go amongst the trees. It’s quite interesting to watch how quickly things change as the Sun climbs above the horizon creating different patterns as its rays pass through the branches and leaves. Maybe one day I’ll manage a time lapse of it.

Photoshop Frenzy

Graeme — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:23:47 +0000

Sometimes tweaking an image in Photoshop gets a bit out of hand, but in the end I quite liked the result

While I was playing with this image I wondered what other images I should have tweaked a little bit more or maybe I should just delete Photoshop from this computer for a while

>Insert interesting title here

Graeme — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:08:54 +0000

Okay, no need for an interesting title, or much need for an introduction other than here are two photographs from today. The first is a misty bit of woodland from this mornings wander…

And then the Moon over the Pennines this evening…

Playing Around

Graeme — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:11:00 +0000

In my dim and distant past, okay, it wasn’t that distant, I used to play around in the darkroom quite a bit trying to create patterns from negatives. My mind turned back to those experiments and I started to wonder what I could do with a digital camera and Photoshop

Darker than normal

Graeme — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:34:50 +0000

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 when I decided to try for some ‘darker’ photographs.

A couple of hours later and the Sun was just clearing the distant tree tops, I returned to the wooded area for one more photograph as a comparison -

Frustration

Graeme — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:24:30 +0000

The other day I started feeling a bit unwell, a day later I slipped and hurt my back, so I’ve been taking it easy as best I can. But taking it easy isn’t easy

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was raining and grey skies, but this morning we woke to crisp clear skies. The Oak tree was almost glowing with its thick covering of frost and Venus was climbing in the sky behind it. I wanted to try a low angle photograph, but my back would not allow me to bend that far :-/ so I managed this instead -

After a long while trying to warm and stretch my back in front of the fire I took a couple of photographs near the house, one day good light will coincide with me being able to get out and about to see enjoy it.

Now I think I’ll see if a hot bath will help

Catching Up

Graeme — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:14:25 +0000

I’ve been preoccupied with one or two things (such as redecorating, organising, and cleaning the kitchen), so it’s really time I caught up with posting a few photographs. As there’s a few I’ll break them into a few categories

Leaves & flowers

(okay, lots of leaves but only one flower)

A few Fells

Clouds and the rising Sun

Everything else…

Morning Mist, Leaves & General Distractions

Graeme — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:58:06 +0000

This morning I went for a wander with the dog and the camera fully intending to take some reference photographs of horses. As I wandered along the lane I became more and more distracted with the mist and the leaves and the way the moisture clung to everything. I did take a horse photograph but it was in the end a distraction to the magic that mist can create.

Old & New

Graeme — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:36 +0000

Recently I looked through an old album of mine, when I say old I took the photographs in or around 1984 so it’s old to me. Many of the images are terrible, yet there are odd ones which apart from the technical aspects of the images I could have taken them last week.
It’s strange to think that even at the age of 14 I was pointing the camera more at landscapes than people; it is not a decision I regret, photographing people holds no interest for me whereas I can be lost for hours staring through the viewfinder at a craggy hill or crooked tree. Though I say it’s not a decision I regret, it’s also not a decision I can remember making. You’d imagine there would have been some conscious thought on the issue at some point in my past, but I can’t remember any of it. I do remember taking the photographs, and standing for hours in the darkroom trying to work out what the hell I was doing. It is something we’ve lost with digital, the anticipation felt as you agitated a tank of chemicals wondering what the film would contain.
Comparing photographs taken 25 years apart is not something I’m prone to doing, but it is fun to do every once in a while (well every 25 years or so ).
So, here’s a couple of landscapes from my not so distant past…

I quite like this one, it’s a scratched print of an unnamed craggy hill somewhere in the Lake District, but it shows where my interests were at the time. Then we come to the more modern photographs (many will have already seen these, but they’re my most recent images).

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