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 😉
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A different route
I took a slightly different route for my morning walk, it was quite enjoyable and I certainly discovered a couple of new views which will be worth visiting again in the future. The clouds were quite heavy first thing, and there had been a dusting of snow, but the light breaking through the cloud and hitting the Pennines attracted me to make another panoramic, there is a larger version of the above image here. There’s more to the above image, but for some reason the right hand side was blurring…
Read MoreWatching the sky
After my spell earlier today photographing the Moon and ISS I thought my camera would be left in the bag for the rest of the day. Then I noticed how the clouds looked over the Pennines and there was no way I could leave the camera idle 😉
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This morning I got my camera gear ready for the ISS pass which I was cleverly notified of via Twitter, gone are the days of trying to work out when objects will be visible in the night sky, I just wait for the tweet 😉 Armed with the relevant information, wrapped in a couple of layers to ward off the cold winds which had developed over night I stepped outside around 0530hrs to get ready. The cloud was fairly high towards the East and was also flitting around the Moon…
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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,…
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