Dawn silliness

As I wandered round the fields with Hugo this morning I decided it would be fun to take a large panoramic 😉 Of course when I was back home stitching it together I thought it would be fun to play around with it a bit… As I was looking at this polar shot on the screen I decided that it would make a good eye… There’s a zoomable version of the panoramic here.

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Morning Light

I was trying to sketch some ideas this morning, the curtains were open, and I tried to ignore the outside world until I managed to get something onto paper worth looking at. Unfortunately the Sun was breaking through the cloud and illuminating a thin layer of mist in the Eden Valley, so I put down the sketchbook and picked up the camera. Now I should really pick up the sketchbook again and work out what I was thinking of this morning, before I became a little distracted.

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eagþyrl

“The light looks good on the Pennines….” I look up from my iPad, pausing a game bookmarking the quantum field theory article for later, and look out the window. Julie was right, the last rays before the Sun started to set were hitting a small patch of the Pennines and I pushed my digital distraction aside and pulled out the camera bag all the while glancing at the view out of the window.  As I open the camera bag the light changes, and the hills are almost lost in shadow,…

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Frustrated

This morning I had an early wander, the Sun had yet to show her face and the Moon wasn’t giving off much light yet there was still enough to see by. By the time I’d wandered through the wood I could see mist starting to rise from the fields and fill the hollows between the small hills. So I took a few photographs, but the light wasn’t there and the photographs looked flat. I wandered on a bit further hoping that there would be enough light to make the mist…

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