Posts tagged ‘trees’
The Exhibition…..
From Monday 12th December until Friday 16th December my exhibition of flower, Tamar Valley and Californian photographs was at Art at The Works in Tavistock. It was a great success with wonderful feedback and sales!! So, thanks to all that came. admired and bought!! For those that missed it here is a little view!
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- All Sorts
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- California plus
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- Flowers
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- Worlds Within
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- Fuschia
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- Fuschia
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- Flowers
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- Tamar Valley
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- Redwoods plus
Redwoods, US Towns and Elk!
Another trip to the Redwoods, this time with time and a tripod as it is dark in there! Also a few of a town we stay in. Also, on a trip to see friends in the outback we came around a corner (already reduced to a few MPH because of road conditions) and there were a few Elk, then more and more so we kept quiet and still as the bull has big antlers and would think nothing of attacking the odd car…
Plus one taken at night – there is no light pollution (no mains power for miles so no street lights) at all apart from the lights from the house so millions of stars and the Milky Way are visible!
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- Garberville at Sunrise
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- Garberville at Sunrise
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- Garberville at Sunrise
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Wild Elk
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- Wild Elk
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- Wild Elk
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- Rubecea
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- Pacific Ocean
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- Stars
California!!
Here we are in Northern California – a few redwoods and the coast range of mountains – more to come!
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Redwoods
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- Pacific Coast
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- Pacific Coast
Infra Red
I discovered that my spare DSLR is IR complient so ordered a cheap Infra Red Filter from China – it arrived in a few days and as it was a dull day I thought ‘why not?’ so I did!! And these are the results with a little desaturation on the gray ones. It seems as if getting the white balance is the hardest part, and not being able to see anything through the lense, and having to guess the exposure as the meter is not claibrated for IR!! I shall do more of these as they are fun even though they look like slightly strange black and white prints!
Outdoors and in
With mixed weather this week I have been picking single flowers from the garden, and photographing them in the studio. Also been on a couple of walks in and out of woods and along the river Tamar with the sun spotighting a field and a tower. A mix of straight mast and bendy tree with white daisies below was a nice challenge. Into the woods and the Anti vibration mechanism on the new lens worked well plus for a change I uped the ISO to 500 with hardly any degrdation! More at Flickr
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- cyclamen
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- Tamar-Valley
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- Tamar-Valley
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- Japanese Anemoneas
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- Fuschia
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- fence
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- Fuschia
Triple Wammy!
Todays post has three sections. I have been trying to use what facilities I have – lenses, weather and more – I live at the top of a hill with nothing higher than us to the North Atlantic – another way of saying that it is WINDY! I often say, ‘can’t photograph today as it is too windy’, so to counteract that and with the aid of a variable Neutral Density filter and flash gun or multiple exposure I have tried to counter the wind. Secondly whilst waiting for a new zoom I have been making myself use prime lenses for everything which has proved a good relearning curve! Finally the new Nikon 28 – 300 arrived; meant for travel use when I need to change from zoom to wide angle quickly it was fun to just go for a walk to see what it would do and it is wonderful – heavy as it is a FX lens and solid with crisp optics. More of the same at Flickr
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- New Lens Woods
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- Windy Japanese Anemoneas
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- Windy Japanese Anemoneas
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- Windy Lily
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- Garden Rubbish
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- Thistle
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- Teasel
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- New Lens old Tractor
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- New Lens Wood
A few more Flowers
I have bee uploading onto Flickr – Roses have got great acceptance from Princes Grace Rose Garden Group! Any way, I have been trying to work out what to do lens wize as my 18 – 200 is not doing what I want and so I have been only using prime (none variable) lenses – quite a challenge but FUN! I grew the Arum Lily, it was a very late planting and has done better than the first one I grew!
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- woods
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- woods
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- rose
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- woods
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- Arum
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- rose
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- Arum
A busy few days!
There are three selections this week! Some flowers in situ in the garden, always a challange as I don’t get up early enough! A poppy in the studio – these grow wild on my partners allotment and then a few from my Friday morning walk – sadley these have identified a problem in my universal 18 – 200 lens and the auto focusing together with a couple of other probems – I can’t decide whether to buy a new one, the 28 – 300 or a 300 prime – the question is convinience!! More of these are on Flickr
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- Garden Flowers
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- Garden Flowers
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- Garden Flowers
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- Poppy
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- Poppy
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- Poppy
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- Tamar Valley
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- Tamar Valley
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- Tamar Valley
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- Tamar Valley
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- Tamar Valley
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- Tamar Valley
Spring in the woods
Not so much wonderful photographs more wonderful countryside! Enjoy! All pictures are available as enlarged pribts – up to almost 4 foot. More images at www.flickr.com/photos/reflexrover
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- Catkins
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- Primrose
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- Daffodils
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- River Tamar
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- Blossom
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- River Tamar
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- Daffodils
Nature or Nurture! Or As seen or Studio?
Carrying on from yesterday….. In order to have backgrounds ready for this coming winter season (2011) I have started tajing photos of Christmas like situations, but I feel that they are arificial! So, during the festive season I took a few of the tree, which was decorated in an organic way, it is not planned or designed and bits are added here and there. The result I feel is more life like but it may not be as useful, the colour, intensity of light, evenness of light ans so on. Anyway, I am beginning to wonder whether I should have a tree in the studio (it would have to be artificial – all those needles …………… I must add that I used a red laser to highlight some of the baubles – on long exposures it has an interesting effect!
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- On the Christmas tree
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- On the Christmas tree with laser
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- On the Christmas tree with laser
