Posts Tagged ‘B&W’
Inside the Victorian Pharmacy
My wife went down to the quilting show in the NEC; so, I took the opportunity to visit Blists Hill Victorian Town, the site of the BBC’s ‘Victorian Pharmacy’. Fascinating, and the pharmacy looked just as it did on the television, although without the interesting experiments in manufacturing gunpowder and fireworks, or drilling teeth, that […]
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Harvest Time
It’s that time of the year now. The combines have just started and will keep going, all night if necessary, to bring the harvest in. This is mostly what’s planted round here, barley – excellent in beer and for malting for whisky! and, as you might expect, I think it works in black and white […]
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Endless Woods
On a long walk round the Atholl Estates in Glen Barvie and Glen Bruar there were long stretches going through woods and forest plantations. I tried to get a sense of this in the picture below. I tried this in colour, but couldn’t make it work for me. Taken in Dynamic B&W mode on the […]
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Tags: B&W, Colour, Drama, GF-1, Landscape
Queen’s View
Coming back from a cycle round Loch Rannoch deep in the Highlands on the eastern edge of the desolate Rannoch Moor we stopped at Queen’s View, a favourite stopping place of Queen Victoria. This looks along Loch Tummel west towards Loch Rannoch and Rannoch Moor. On the left is the mountain of Schiehallion, where the […]
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Broom Pod
Brooms are legumes, which is to say that they are related to beans and similar plants. This is easy to see when the seed pods have formed. I was experimenting with a new B&W setting on my GX200 when I took this macro on the shores of Loch Leven. Since this was a jpeg there […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Flowers, GX200, Macro, Ricoh, Ricoh GX200
Old Hospital
This old hospital was founded by James VI and I (of Scotland and Great Britain) on the site of an old monastery founded by his forebear, James I. James I, his Queen and Queen Margaret Tudor were all buried on that site. Margaret Tudor was the sister of the rapacious Henry VIII of England, but […]
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Through the Gate
I rather liked the framing of this gate by the trees and hedge with the view through to the fields beyond. It is in a small lane by Falkland, looking south through the fields to West Lomond Hill beyond. The original picture was very monochromatic, albeit shades of green. I therefore thought that it would […]
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Determination
There has been a small but steady resurgence in coastal rowing in the Firth of Forth, based on traditional double-ended rowing boats. We saw one being launched at Pittenweem and tracked it as the five crew rowed it eastwards along the Fife coast in a brisk breeze. An open boat with no buoyancy is an […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Determination, Drama, GF-1, Seascape
Rain
This is the view out of my train window at 6.00 am waiting to leave Perth Station. All a bit depressing in summer. I then though that this was such a driech subject that it would look well in balck and white: On this occasion the colour version somehow looks bleaker to me. This was […]
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Fern Fronds
I have been practising with a manually focused macro lens. These fern fronds were one of the studies I tried. Essentially a green monochromatic image originally, it seemed to lend itself to a black and white conversion. Cropped slightly and converted to B&W in Aperture.
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One Picture, One Day 