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johnloguk > 1.03.10 - Back Light At the end of a busy day I was just winding down. I'd visited my last two customers and had just driven into the car park at my local shops. The sky was dark and heavy, then suddenly the sun dropped below the bank of cloud and sat there just above the horizon. From the shops it was some way off to the right of the cathedral, but I knew if I could get to the quarry quickly I could find a viewpoint were the sun would be directly behind it. Luckily the quarry was only a few hundred yards away, and I just got there in time to catch this!
johnloguk > 22.02.10 - Towers of Power This shot was taken on Saturday, it was also meant to be my entry for the latest DGrin challenge "silhouette", but I messed up! I've been so caught up with work lately, then Sunday was all about the kids and sledging, so I completely forgot the deadline for the challenge was this morning :( This image is spectacular, but it is also a bit fussy. The left hand pole drives me mad, I'd clone it away if I could be bothered, but priorities are elsewhere at the moment. Here is the sunset done as a sequence; http://www.lightanddreamsphotography.com/Photography/INSPIRATION/10329875_Lpojy#794841079_EJ9zL
johnloguk > 15.02.10 - Here Comes the Sun You'd never guess that I've been experimenting for the current DGrin challenge "silhouettes" would you? A lot more work is needed, but the sunburst came out quite nicely with this one.
johnloguk > 06.02.10 - Stark Another grey day today, but I managed to get out for a walk at lunchtime. I liked the silhouette of this old tree, and the hedges disappearing into the misty distance down to the river. The humps and hollows in the foreground are the remains of the long lost Medieval village of South Greetwell. All that is left standing is the church and old hall, which have featured in my Dailies before. Huge thanks to everyone who left such wonderful comments on yesterday's sunset silhouette. I was amazed to come home and find it as the most popular shot of the day this evening :)
johnloguk > Spiky This is a variation of my Daily Photo for today. At sunset I usually go for the big sky look at 18mm, but today I tried something that I haven't tried for a long time. I went for a longer lens and looked for things to silhouette against the hazy sun. Sometimes it pays to focus, literally, on the smaller details rather than the bigger picture. That sounds almost profound :) The "Daily" version is here; http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/gallery/11117068_nLB98#781720718_AFNQH
johnloguk > 05.02.10 - Eclipse We had a big orange hazy sunset this evening. I was trying to avoid my usual big sky type of sunset photo, so I put the long lens on and had a play around with silhouettes. This one took my fancy :) There is a slightly different version here; http://www.lightanddreamsphotography.com/Photography/INSPIRATION/10329875_Lpojy#781730475_NvGeX
johnloguk > Walk on by...... Something a bit different from me today. I was at a local Nature Reserve this afternoon taking landscapes, and trying to catch some very elusive wildfowl, and then I spotted this couple on the opposite bank of the river. I thought they'd look good if I could silhouette them against the sky, but there were too many cables and trees cluttering the background. So I ran right down to the water's edge and crouched as low as I possibly could, and bingo! The original was almost monochrome anyway, but I did a B&W conversion, played in levels and contrast to darken it up, added a vignette, and it looks a lot moodier than it actually was. Luckily they were lost in conversation and didn't notice me, or they might have thought I'd gone mad!
johnloguk > 17.6.09 - Caught in the spotlight This is another shot from Tuesday night, but I was still working on it last night. The guy was walking his dog, and I suddenly realised that he was going to go through the glare from the floodlights. I was disappointed with the original, because I didn't have chance to set it up properly and there was some camera shake. I decided to go with an artistic feel rather than a natural one and I hope this works. I used the watercolour filter in Elements on top of a B&W conversion and a simple frame. Thanks for the wonderful comments on yesterday's Cathedral shot, it is one of my favourite views and I never tire of it. This was taken at the opposite end of the Cathedral, where the lawns and trees create a very different atmosphere.
johnloguk > 3.6.09 - Silence is Golden It's been a long time since I had a sunset for my Daily, I hope it has been worth the wait. I originally went out for a walk along the river and got some nice wildflower shots, but this presented itself on the way home. I don't like having the sun in the frame, it can make the image noisy, fill it with flare and doesn't do wonders for the eyes, but I hope it adds to the image here. This view of Lincoln Cathedral is from the south-east, with the observatory tower of the Castle on the extreme left of the shot. There weren't many clouds in the sky, but there was a low haze that gave this wonderful golden glow. A group of birds flew over at just the right time too. I've had lousy hay fever the last couple of days, which has made staring at a computer screen pretty painful, so apologies if I didn't comment on your pics. Thanks for all the kind words on my truck pics and postcards, you are a wonderful bunch of people :)
1.03.10 - Back Light

At the end of a busy day I was just winding down. I'd visited my last two customers and had just driven into the car park at my local shops. The sky was dark and heavy, then suddenly the sun dropped below the bank of cloud and sat there just above the horizon. From the shops it was some way off to the right of the cathedral, but I knew if I could get to the quarry quickly I could find a viewpoint were the sun would be directly behind it. Luckily the quarry was only a few hundred yards away, and I just got there in time to catch this!
johnloguk > 1.03.10 - Back Light At the end of a busy day I was just winding down. I'd visited my last two customers and had just driven into the car park at my local shops. The sky was dark and heavy, then suddenly the sun dropped below the bank of cloud and sat there just above the horizon. From the shops it was some way off to the right of the cathedral, but I knew if I could get to the quarry quickly I could find a viewpoint were the sun would be directly behind it. Luckily the quarry was only a few hundred yards away, and I just got there in time to catch this!
1.03.10 - Back Light

At the end of a busy day I was just winding down. I'd visited my last two customers and had just driven into the car park at my local shops. The sky was dark and heavy, then suddenly the sun dropped below the bank of cloud and sat there just above the horizon. From the shops it was some way off to the right of the cathedral, but I knew if I could get to the quarry quickly I could find a viewpoint were the sun would be directly behind it. Luckily the quarry was only a few hundred yards away, and I just got there in time to catch this!
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