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2012

Friday, January 6th, 2012

3rd of January: We had rain and storm all day, so I wasn’t quite expecting this sunset. Result: noticing too late to go outside to get a better view of it. (fallen for that too many times – see great sky, get bicycle out, race towards the river, and arrive too late, even though it’s only 3 minutes to get there)

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This one was this morning, while it was very stormy, and the whole of my neighbourhood seemed to be covered under a huge thick dark cloud, while showing bits of blue sky further away. Until photos come with sound, you’ll just have to imagine the howling wind to get the full atmosphere ;-)

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Christmas 2011

Friday, January 6th, 2012

These were taken on Christmas day, and 30th December.

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Early December

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Oops, better late than never – these were taken about 4 weeks ago.

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Saturday afternoon

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

The photos below were taken yesterday afternoon, a little before sunset.
The last one of the four was very close to sunset, and was after I’d given up on getting a nice sunset over the river, came back down the stairs and back on the bicycle, and looked back. So naturally I stopped again :-)

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Sunset and golden hour

Monday, November 28th, 2011

This time of year I often miss the golden hour because it happens during work hours. It also only lasts about 10 minutes here; a big (otherwise very useful, don’t get me wrong) dyke between the river and my house is blocking the light…

And is it me, or is the light really more golden in autumn than it is in summer? For the ten minutes I get to see it coming through my windows, it certainly seems to be.

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Morning and evening

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

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Week 43: Pylons

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Sunset grass

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Colour profiles are doing my head in… At home I’m using Windows, but ‘on the road’ I only have my Macbook to edit my photos. The only program to easily view photos in, is iPhoto. Looks wonderful, great colours. Then I have to import photos into GIMP to edit them, and the first thing GIMP asks me, is whether I want to keep, or convert the colour profile. And it doesn’t matter which one I choose, invariably, the photo when opened in GIMP, shows different colours to the ones I just saw in iPhoto.
And then, no matter how hard I try with levels, curves, colour balance, hues and contrast, I can not get the photo to look the same as the ‘original’.

So, in short, for this photo, please imagine the top part of the sky slightly greener, the bottom part of the sky a little bit bluer (blue-er?), and the red glow on the grass darker and brighter, while the dark silhouettes of the leafy plants are all just dark, instead of having green/blue edges… ;-)

Taken Tuesday evening.

Monday evening

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Sea & gulls

Friday, July 9th, 2010

And this is the last in the “N73 series” I shot last week at the beach!