Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Brockholes


Brockholes Nature Reserve is a Wetland and Wildlife Reserve near Preston, next to Jct 31 of the M6 alongside the River Ribble. It only opened 18 months ago. We visited today on a sunny Autumnal day.
The Summer birds have left and the Winter visitors haven't arrived yet, so it was very quiet, but peaceful and beautiful nontheless!

This month's Photo Contest at Brockholes is 'Fungi', so I was looking in particular for Mushrooms!!


Brockholes floating Visitor Centre

Josie on the Lake Pontoons

John in Boilton Wood

Panorama of Number One Pit

Mycena Mushrooms

Oyster Mushrooms

Mycena Mushrooms

Male Red-Veined Dragonfly


Bullrush

Nine Twitchers Twitching

Friday, 5 October 2012

Blue Sky Thinking

.....and talking about experimenting, I couldn't resist this one yesterday.
Love the way the raindrops focussed the clouds and sky upside down!!


Blue Sky Thinking


Monday, 1 October 2012

Experiment

This photo has featured previously on here as a Black and White image that was favourably reviewed, so I had a play around with it and came up with this....

St Paul's Cathedral Posterized Triptych


Friday, 28 September 2012

Update

I'm sure everyone will agree that this Summer has been a washout, but I suppose that's no excuse really for a photographer. I should be out in all weathers, capturing landscapes and architecture in their different moods!!

I entered 25 photos into the Landscape Photographer Of The Year Competition run by Charlie Waite, but none were shortlisted. This was quite a disappointment at first, as I suppose every photographer thinks his pictures have merit, but having read other blogs on the subject, and seen other 'rejects', I'm less unhappy!!

Here are a few selected photos since my last post, just to prove I'm still trying!

This is a copy of theWigan Casino sign, now hanging in the Grand Arcade inWigan, on the site of the original Casino.

A view across Windermere towards the Langdales from Waterhead on a stormy day.

'Orange Wildflowers', used my fixed 50mm on F1.8 to get the Bokeh, really like the effect, posted to a Bokeh group on Flickr and got hits!!

Water reflections with added Photoshop blur for effect.

This is called 'Rusted and Rotted', you can create beauty from any old thing!

'Tacking Round The Buoy' at Scotmans Flash, I loved the reflection on this one! Thanks to the Horizon Policeman for his guidance!

Olympic Champion and Tour De France Winner Bradley Wiggins and Bernie Eisel passing through Billinge on the Tour of Britain.

Mark Cavendish, 'The Manx Missile', wearing his World Champion Road Race shirt

The rest of the Peloton.

A black and white study called 'Under The Pier' taken at Southport. I only had my Iphone, just goes to show, you should always have your camera with you! Mind you, it didn't turn out too bad...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Featured Photo

Snapsort has used this photo to publicise its Weekly Challenge. The theme was 'Water'.
I took this with a fixed 50mm F1.8 lens and a 21mm macro attachment on my Canon EOS 60D.

Have a look at their facebook site here:     Snapsort

This is the blog page for all the 'Water' entries that Snapsort published:   Snapsort Blog

This photo received 3 Stars for Technical Merit and Creativity on the PhotoAnswers website.
                                                             

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Featured Photo

Another of my photos has been featured on a website!
The challenge was 'Abstract'
This time it's the Snapsort website, a great site for comparing cameras and getting good detailed reviews.

Have a look here: Snapsort Photo Challenge


Saturday, 14 July 2012

Photo Comp Entry

This photo was entered in the 'Still Life' category, although I could have saved it for the 'Natural World' category too.
I called it 'Heart Of Oak'
It rated as follows on Photo Answers Website:



                                 CREATIVE      rating is 3                  TECHNICAL             rating is 3