black and white – Graeme Skinner

Water and Trees

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:05:57 +0000

Just to prove I still exist I’m posting a couple of recent photographs Earlier this month I went out to wander in the wood with the camera, not that I ended up taking many photographs worth sharing, but I did take a lot of reference photographs for drawing/painting. Then a couple of days ago I popped down to the stream to play with the Lee Big Stopper filter – it extends exposure time and gets movement in the water, before you use the filter though you need to take a test photograph to work out the exposure/composition/focus as you can’t see anything with the filter in place. Turned out I prefered the non filter shot

Down in the woods today…

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:34:51 +0000

Quick photo from this morning, I’m not very mobile so couldn’t get far :-/

Blencathra

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:55:49 +0000

Blencathra, topped with a touch of snow and a bit of cloud….

Towards the hills

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:21:10 +0000

These two photographs are the result of a quick wander when I noticed the light was looking quite interesting (after a spell of grey skies ;-)). I’ve kept the colour versions handy for some Shire/Tolkien themed paintings

It’s all a blur

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:06:39 +0000

I went out to try the new filter* on the camera again (I’d tried it yesterday but didn’t like the results (operator error I’m afraid)), anyway, I plodded up the lane beside the field and thought the open gate with the crop wafting in the wind was quite an interesting effect so set up and I was much happier with the result….

*Lee Big Stopper

Down in the river

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:31:27 +0000

The other day I was wandering down the river, not by the river of course, we’ve been walking in the river to cool Hugo off. Anyway, I noticed the light coming through the trees looked rather nice so decided to try and capture it whilst I liked the colour version of the photograph I much preferred this black and white version.

Down by the river

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:09:21 +0000

I went for a quick wander down by the river earlier with the camera…

Switching Off

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:41:21 +0000

I have a fairly regular morning wander routine:- phone in pocket, hat on, camera at the ready, and of course my mp3 player on the go. This morning was no different, I wandered down the lane, clambered over a gate and down the hill into a small wood, all the while accompanied by La Tarantella. It was I must admit a pleasant start, but I started to realize as I looked for the right photograph that I was feeling disconnected from the wood, something was missing. Then, as I stood a Blackbird took flight from a nearby tree giving me a bit of a start and I realized I couldn’t hear the wood like I used to. So, I took out the MP3 player, switched it off, pulled the earphones out, and listened to the sounds of the wood around me. A short distance to my right a small stream bubbled over stones and under fallen branches; birds twittered and tweeted around me; leaves rustled in the wind. Suddenly I felt connected to the land and for a while I forgot the camera and pretty much everything else.

When I returned to the real world I remembered the camera and noticed the light breaking through the cloud, and I started snapping away with the camera.

A brief stop

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:20 +0000

Coming down Kirkstone Pass after a failed shopping trip and we decided to pause by one of the waterfalls as they were looking rather impressive after the amount of rain we’d had recently.