Early start today which was handy as it gave me chance to take a couple of astrophotography shots as comet Ison is up and about as well 😉
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Chasing the light
This afternoon the light on the Pennines was changing fast, and I saw a number of possible photographs appear and vanish before I had chance to pick up the camera and take a shot. I did however manage a couple of photographs 😉
Read MoreUnder the stars
I’ve had a few ideas for star filled paintings recently, mainly they’ve been science fiction with sleek space ships zooming around. However the other day I returned to a Tolkien theme of Hobbits wandering under a star filled sky. The main aim was to make the Hobbits just visible enough to be in the painting yet make it believable that they were wandering under the stars with little to no Moon to illuminate the scene. Another aim was to use real star positions rather than just splatter the painting with…
Read MoreConquaerere
I decided to take a couple of ‘conker’ photographs today, and as I was playing around with the camera I wondered where the name conker originated… Conkers (n.) “child’s game played with horse chestnuts,” originally with snail shells, 1847, probably a variant of conquer. The goal was to break the other player’s item by hitting it with yours. Conquer (v.) c.1200, cunquearen, from Old French conquerre “conquer, defeat, vanquish,” from Vulgar Latin *conquaerere (for Latin conquirere) “to search for, procure by effort, win,” from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-),…
Read MoreWould you beleaf it?
Wandering round the garden this morning (after the fun job of cleaning out the chickens) and I started to pick up a few leaves. I wasn’t cleaning the garden or anything as radical as that, I was picking up any leaf that caught my eye. Returning to the house my intention was to take a few macro photographs of the leaves for a bit of fun 😉 however when I lay them on the table I decided to photograph them as they were – As I was photographing them I…
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