trees – Graeme Skinner

In Contrast

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:27:38 +0000

There was a bit of snow lying around yesterday so I popped out with the camera for a while, I ended up taking a few tree based contrasty shots, going through them afterwards this one caught my eye so I made it into a print

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

Dovedale

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:05:57 +0000

A few photographs from our trip to Dovedale the other week (not had chance to sort them until now).

Through the Gap

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:18:26 +0000

I took a different route the other day for my wander, on that wander I noticed a view which I thought “that might make a nice photograph”. There were a couple of drawbacks though, firstly the light was terrible and the air filled with drizzle, secondly and probably more importantly I didn’t have my camera on me. So this morning when I was trying to decide where to go for a wander I grabbed the camera and headed back to the location, couldn’t find it and spent far too long wandering through the small wood to locate it. Eventually I got there and took a quick photograph before heading back to the delights of fresh strong coffee

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.

Photoshop Frenzy

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:23:47 +0000

Sometimes tweaking an image in Photoshop gets a bit out of hand, but in the end I quite liked the result

While I was playing with this image I wondered what other images I should have tweaked a little bit more or maybe I should just delete Photoshop from this computer for a while

Catching Up

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:14:25 +0000

I’ve been preoccupied with one or two things (such as redecorating, organising, and cleaning the kitchen), so it’s really time I caught up with posting a few photographs. As there’s a few I’ll break them into a few categories

trees – Graeme Skinner

In Contrast

Water and Trees

Dovedale

Through the Gap

Switching Off

Photoshop Frenzy

Catching Up

Leaves & flowers

(okay, lots of leaves but only one flower)

A few Fells

Clouds and the rising Sun

Everything else…