Archive for February, 2010
The Cobbler’s Shop – Boots
My wife needed a pair of shoes reheeled and so we went to a cobbler’s shop in Perth which was recommended to us by a friend. While I waited for the shoes to be repaired, I thought that this would be a good opportunity to carry out an experiment in shooting both in black and […]
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Glasgow Reflections
Walking out of Queen Street Station in Glasgow I noticed that the older Victorian building reflected in the windows of the more modern building opposite. It almost looked as though you were seeing it through the windows rather than being reflected in them. This was pretty much straight out of camera with the GX200 – […]
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The Wreck
The last from the Balmerino series. This old fishing boat has been left to moulder on the treacherous sandbanks of the Firth of Tay, which is still used for coastal shipping traffic to the port in Perth. In the 18th century the Firth was a stronghold of smugglers running contraband from German and Dutch ports. […]
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Frost Pocket
We passed this small pocket where hoar frost lay thick. Everywhere else it had pretty much gone. I thought that this might be better in black and white. Black and white conversion from a GF1 jpeg colour original, not that there was much colour to begin with. Simulated red filter, contrast tweaked via curves.
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Blue Tractor
Walking back to Balmerino on a very cold but sunny day we passed this tractor parked in an abandoned fashion next to a filed of winter barley. The blue stood out against the green of the new growth. A GF1/20mm jpeg with very slight recovery (the sky), black point slightly right, slight boost to definition, […]
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Frozen Gorse
Plants are still struggling towards spring even as the cold weather persists. Here a gorse bush has burst into flower only to be frosted. Still, gorse is pretty hardy – as anyone who has blundered into it knows. GF1 jpeg with a bit of Recovery, slight boost to contrast using curves, and added definition and […]
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Flowers – Balmerino Abbey
Balmerino Abbey was a Cistercian foundation on the south shore of the Firth of Tay founded in 1227 by the second wife and widow of King William the Lion of Scotland, Queen Ermengarde. It was badly damaged by the English in the ‘Rough Wooing’ of 1547, but only collapsed into ruin later during the Reformation. […]
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John Knox’s Pulpit
John Knox’s Pulpit is a sandstone outcrop where tradition says that the great Protestant preached during the Reformation in Scotland. It lies only a few miles from home in the gap between West Lomond and Bishop hills. Sadly, there is no direct evidence that John Knox himself preached there. However, it was undoubtedly used for […]
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Still Cold
Despite the threat of snow none has fallen. However, it has been consistently cold at night. Combined with still conditions, it has been perfect for hoar frost. Here are some frosted berries on the little bridge across the Morton Burn just next to our house: Unusually for me this is a jpeg file with a […]
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Ivy Leaf
This ivy leaf on the bridge over the burn next to our house provided an evergreen counterpoint to the light snow on it: This was another GX200 shot (an excellent camera for macro shots) run through a default conversion from Raw in RPP with my default Aperture input tweaks (slight increase in contrast and saturation […]
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One Picture, One Day 