This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we’d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn’t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a…
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Switching Off
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…
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This morning we popped round by Long Meg and Her Daughters for a quick wander….
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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 😉
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A pause during the excitement of chopping wood 😉
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