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The long and winding . . er . . walk (take two)

I agonised over the crop for this image and posted my cropped image in the previous post. This post has the un-cropped image for comparison. What do you think? Would you have cropped the image? If so how would you have cropped it? Looking forward to your comments.

Un-cropped version of this image.

Industrial symmetry

I shot this a while ago at Salford Quays. I wasn’t particularly attracted by the boat, or the water, or the crane. I was taken by the geometric shapes that were formed by the crane and it’s reflection as well as the two steel posts. This was always going to be a black and white image since it was one of those beautiful, overcast grey days in Salford 🙂

Industrial symetry

Autumn mist

This was a view that greeted me as I drove along the road high up on the eastern side of Nidderdale just above Pateley Bridge one afternoon last week. It was just another one of those opportunistic shots that you can pick up if you always have your camera with you. Unfortunately I am always seeing shots when I don’t have a camera with me but I am trying my best to remember to be better prepared. This is one of those views that makes you forget how cold it is and just enjoy watching the mist roll up the valley below.

Mist rolling up Nidderdale

Mist rolling up through Nidderdale

Between a rock and a hard place

I know that “lone tree” shots are ubiquitous but I don’t worry about that when I see a scene such as this one that really grabs my attention. This birch tree is growing on top of a rock, a few yards away is an Oak tree growing out of a crack in the side of another rock. I made this picture on Sunday on a visit to Brimham Rocks in Nidderdale where drizzly rain fell from a flat grey sky most of the time. I gave the mono conversion a creamtone finish.

Birch tree growing on rocks.

Birch tree growing on rocks.

Autumnal

I have been wandering around lately looking for the colours of autumn. Around North Yorkshire there is no shortage of sweeping vistas with lots of colour at this time of year, and I have been photographing some of them,  but I decided to look at the smaller picture. I wanted to capture the colours but without the huge landscape.

Here are four pictures I made recently and a couple from 2009 (the tree roots full of fallen leaves and reflections) when I did something similar.

Click on an image to see larger versions in a slideshow.

 

Three Angels

The first time I visited the Angel of the North was on my way home from a trip up the North East coast to Lindisfarne and Bamburgh etc. There were quite a few people around and most were taking pictures from straight on to the Angel. I joined in and took the same, straight on view as a record shot. Practically no-one was looking for a different angle on the Angel. I walked around for a while and took several shots from various angles. Here is my straight shot and a couple of different angles, one with a wide-angle lens and one with a longer lens for detail. It is usually worth while taking the time to wander around your chosen subject to find different interpretations of whats there.

 

Straight on view

Wide angle view, people used to give scale

 

Detail shot

Green Man?

I have just been playing around with a picture of a deciduous tree in the winter. Well I had to do something while waiting for FIFA to perform a miracle with the pitch in Warsaw , Poland. England are there to play Poland in a World Cup qualifier and the pitch, in the new National Stadium which has a roof is flooded by rain!!!

Anyhow, I was on the NAPP website and picked up this little idea and applied it to my tree shot. Now I don’t know if its just me but I can see a “Green Man”. If you don’t know what that is just Google it.

 

Green Man