The theme of the month over on John Howe’s website was Fiat Lux “Light should be the focus of the theme, whether it’s shadows, flames, rising or setting suns or distant stars. Lots of possibilities, from Prometheus bringing fire to mankind to the lovely shadow cast by an object from the lamp on your table…” So, I wondered how little light was required to illustrate a scene – more specifically if I could get away with using as little light as possible. Turns out it is quite difficult at times…
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Finally….
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got something to post on here 😉 it feels like we’ve have weeks of grey skies, rain, snow, wind…. well in truth we have, but at least yesterday I managed to get out in between rain/sleet/wind to take a quick photograph – yes it did feel good to get out with the camera but sadly I couldn’t repeat the experience today. So, here’s how the cloud looked over the Pennines yesterday afternoon. If this image is difficult to view, try this larger…
Read MoreAutumn Colours
The autumnal colours are really looking nice at the moment, fiery red leaves blazing against the deep shadows of the distant woods. So today I wandered around with the camera and looked at the colours, how the light caught a particular leaf whilst all the others were in shadow, it was the perfect time to be out with a camera. It was only logical for me to end up taking something which I intended to be in black and white 😉 I did take some colour shots, I’ll sort…
Read MoreAway with the fairies
I’ve been away with the fairies for the last couple of weeks, well, I’ve been reading about some of the myths surrounding fairies, fay, fae, fair folk…. I started with Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories, which felt like a natural starting point, I then went on to read Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major for obvious reasons 🙂 and delved into Celtic Twilight by Yeats. They all pointed me in different directions but all had a common them in many respects, if time allows this week I’d say another reading of Faerie…
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Sometimes you have to get soggy knees for a photograph 😉 wandering Hugo this morning I noticed how the morning dew was covering the grass around the pond and thought it worth a photo…. It’s one of those photographs which look better bigger, so here’s a larger version – link.
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