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Years Start

I was cheered up this morning with the arrival of our poppy from the display at the Tower of London, complete with dirt and grit and rust on the steel stem. It will have to stay indoors with me for the rest of the winter out of the cold wet and windy weather we are having.

This year has started off as slow (in terms of my photography) as the last year ended. I have not had a great late autumn and early winter, flu, then chesty cough, then a common cold. I have ordered a new immune system from the doctor but I don’t hold out much hope, I still haven’t received my new skeleton I asked him for 🙂  OK whinge over.

Anyhow anything we may feel down about these days soon fades into insignificance when set alongside recent events and even more so with what the display at the Tower so graphically represented.

 

Opened box

Un-boxing

Ceramic Poppy

Ceramic Poppy

Years end.

Walked out into the garden and found these three images. So I thought I would share them with you and wish a happy, peaceful and prosperous new year from me and mine to you and yours.

Bamboo reflected in water.

Reflected in water.

Leaf frozen in ice.

Frozen in ice.

Geese Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound

Ripon Cathedral – Take Two

At the beginning of December I made a post that had a picture of a view of Ripon Cathedral, see that post at Ripon Cathedral

A complimentary comment was made that the treatment I gave my shot in post made it look timeless, like something I could have bought in a car boot sale. I have received that “timeless” observation on other images of mine. In this case I said that I had another version that looked even more like something I could have picked up in a car boot sale. It is one where I made it look like a really old, worn out, chipped enamel sign, and here it is, along with the original colour shot after basic RAW edits.

RiponCathedralOriginal

Original Shot

 

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Enamel Sign

 

Facebook User Rights – NONE – I’m out

If you have a Facebook Account then you really should read this . . . I too am out.

andybeel's avatarAndy Beel FRPS

Pass this on if you want to protect your identity and Intellectual property published to facebook.

Facebook has decided it has the right without consultings its users to be able sell your identity and pictures with no redress.

You probably had an email recently about the changes, You like me did not read it.

See the link below

http://photofocus.com/2013/09/09/facebook-changes-terms-of-service-photogs-be-wary/

I will not be publishing to Facebook again.

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Autumn garden detail

Autumn is doing it’s thing and there is precious little colour just now. We do have some Cyclamen brightening up one or two spots. I went out into the garden this morning to search out some ‘detail’ shots that lend themselves to mono conversion. Click an image for the slide show.