Moody Fountains Abbey
Another new theme in #MoodyMonday for me, along with two new photographers who curate it, +Philip Daly and +Carole Buckwalter. Well, new to me, anyway. This is a low gamma, handheld, HDR shot – not something I normally do – and it's quite surprising just what sort of effect you can get with this technique when you consider that this was shot in the early afternoon with what appeared to the eye to be a mostly white sky with patches of light blue peeking through. The HDR image alignment isn't 100% accurate so it's created a few oddities in the image in the form of some wall edges ghosting but I'm not such a perfectionist that I'll worry too much about that. I also decided to leave the birds in, even though they moved between the three exposures because there are some weird effects there too and it just seemed to fit better with them. Google+: View post on...
Curved Bridge, Matlock Bath
It turns out that I took a lot of photos when I popped up north, and it turns out – although I knew it already – that when I shoot with the wide angle lens and drop the aperture down it really shows up dirt on the sensor in a couple of places (which I really must get around to getting properly cleaned) which means that going through those many, many photos and using the spot removal tool is taking quite a long time. So I needed a quick break, and I had a quick look at my favourite circles here, and I realised that I'd never submitted anything for #LeadingLinesMonday curated by +Pam Chalkley and +Jakob Nilsson before and that I had a shot that qualified. So here it is: it's a bridge. Google+: View post on...
Matlock Bath
Back from our short jaunt to Yorkshire and much photo uploading, deleting, and basic processing is taking place, as one might expect. Our first stop – unless you count the service station when I needed to pee, and I'm not so you shouldn't (and, besides, there are no photos of the service station or of anything that occurred in the toilets (you'll be immensely pleased to hear (really should stop nesting comments inside parentheses now))) – was in the Peak District, so called on account of its peaks and it being a district if I were to hazard a guess. We parked up in a lovely little place called Matlock Bath and had a wander up and down its main, winding road, checking out the shops selling interesting touristy tat (the missus bought a rather lovely, textured hoodie that looked like it could have been designed by Giger) and enjoying the views of the hills and houses, the river, and the people. Very nice place indeed. For #MonochromeMonday curated by +Bill Wood, +Charles Lupica, +Jerry Johnson, and +Hans Berendsen. Google+: View post on...
Waiting
He's waiting to hear the results of the blood test. Does he have any? She's waiting for the results of the cat experiment to play out. Can Felix escape from a padlocked bag? And you'll be waiting for me to upload any more photos for a few days as we're off on a drive "oop nahrth" (translation: northwards) tomorrow to take in our annual viewing of a Super League game when Wakefield take on local rivals Castleford. We'll then be spending a day doing touristy things in Yorkshire before driving back. Two days of being greeted with "y'arriiight loov" (translation: how are you doing?) to come for me! Looking forward to it. Google+: View post on...
Progress Cup
That's my little (he's bigger now) brother on the left and me on the right (aged around nine, at a guess) proudly holding the Progress Cup while my mum or dad take one of their patented Not-Quite-All-Of-The-Head shots they seemed to find so fascinating if looking through old photos is anything to go by. I don't actually remember what the Progress Cup was awarded for but if I had to guess from the shirt I'm wearing in that picture I'd say it had something to do with desert warfare. For #BlastFromThePast curated by +Cheryl Cooper, +Isabelle Fortin, and +Mark Rodriguez. Google+: View post on...
Appy
For those of you who never check out the About page on profiles I don't make a living from street photography. This is mostly because hardly anyone does. My day-to-day life revolves around working as a developer for a company with a number of clients whose development requirements are many and varied; luckily my skills are many and varied so I'm a good fit for this role. Amongst my skills is app development. You won't have seen or used any of my apps because they tend to be very specific to the clients' needs and, typically, the client decides they need something truly awful that nobody in their right mind would use. They pay; they're the boss. Still, I do like to tinker with writing apps in my spare time just to keep my coding skills fresh and I've found that the best beta testers are random members of the public. Today, I offered a woman passing by the chance to try out a little app I'd whipped up that allows for autotuning of buskers up to ten metres away (this app uses GPS and requires access to your geolocation data). She was appy (that's a pun and you're welcome to use it as you see fit) to test it out and immediately set to work adjusting the timbre of a rather annoying, male guitarist/warbler nearby. Sadly, the busker became convinced he was possessed by demons and ran amok in the precinct causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage and hospitalising a dozen. That's the sort of thing that stops an app getting through the approval process so it'll need tweaking before release. For #WomenWednesday curated by +Niki Aguirre +Athena Carey +Lee Daniels +Kerry Murphy +Teresa Stover +Christina Lawrie. Google+: View post on...
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