Car, street, snow and houses at night It snowed – AGAIN! Gave me a chance to try one of my favourite techniques. Put the camera on tripod and take a long exposure of a scene illuminated by orange sodium street lights. Then in lightroom colour correct for the orange light. Gives a great look to a night time scene. This … Continue reading
Even the green man is having trouble crossing the road! I wanted to do something fun for today POTD/365 image. Had to go up to the shops to get some milk and decided to photograph the crossing at the end of the road. The pavements are still pretty icy and it appears that even “the green man” is loosing his … Continue reading
Self portrait in the snow at Sidings Orchard which is part of Heaton Mersey Vale nature park. Self portrait in the snow at Sidings Orchard which is part of Heaton Mersey Vale nature park., Heaton Mersey, Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom We were well and truely snowed in today (at least from the point of view of getting a car … Continue reading
Gravestones in the snow For today’s POTD/365 image I headed up to our local church to take some photos of the churchyard in the snow. Nice to see a few graves with red flowers or wreaths attached to them. Needed to use an off camera flash camera right to fill-in the shadows on the front of the grave. You can … Continue reading
Silver birch tree in the snow Snow! More snow. Once again our estate became a giant snowslide for cars. I was getting a little stir crazy so went out for a short stroll with my camera down toward the River Mersey. Got a few reasonable shots but to make anything of them I needed to do some sort of post … Continue reading
Red Royal Mail Postbox. Suitable for Christmas posting. Heaton Mersey, Stockport. Over recent months I’ve seen comments about Alamy to the effect that the one thing it doesn’t is another post box image! Well it’s got another one. This one. This image is however a little different. When I processed it I had in mind to do a traditional “spot colour” … Continue reading
Midnight Rain This was just a fun shot – midnight, heavy rain shower. 20 second exposure, white balance adjusted to remove the orange colour cast from the street lights. … Continue reading
Spherical Panorama test – St John’s Heaton Mersey I went back to St John’s today and redid the photo I was trying to take yesterday. It worked this time. So, to see today’s photo of the day you need to follow these instructions: Firstly read all the instructions and then click on the this link: http://www.imb.biz/dswmedia/pano.php?pano=StJohnsPano2.jpg&bgColor=#000000 The browser MAY ask … Continue reading
St John’s Heaton Mersey I went out today to take photos for a 360degree spherical panorama. Sadly I haven’t been able to stitch it all together as I had some of the settings wrong on the camera! You’ll just have to make do with this reference shot of St. Johns church as the POTD. … Continue reading
Bullrushes This afternoon Ann and I went for a short walk to a little known wildlife conservation area in Heaton Mersey. I managed to get one or two shots, but perhaps the most intriging was the bullrushes ‘in bloom’. Looking like a mutant cross between a cotton-wool factory, and a dandylion clock. The photo was taken into the sun to … Continue reading