johnloguk > 19.3.09 - Cure for Insomnia

I couldn't get to sleep last night so at 2am I was playing in Elements trying to see if I could get close to one of Bill Pador's wonderful frame within a frame shots. I had no intention of posting it at the time, it was just a bit of fun, but now I'm home for lunch and thinking that it looks better than it did at 2am and so I might as well share it :) 

The original image was taken yesterday afternoon, and I think it is apple or crab apple blossom, but I'm no expert. 

Thanks for the kind words on the "watercolour" yesterday, and I hope that those of you who asked about the technique are having fun with it :)
johnloguk > 28.4.08 - Elemental Power. It's been a long time since I had a sunset as my DP, but it is weird how similar this one is to the last one. I've substituted a distant power station for the Cathedral, but the golden drama in the sky is almost identical. It has been another day of heavy April showers, and these always seem to give great sunsets. It was very difficult to get the lighting in this image anything like the real thing, the contrast between light and shade was so huge, but I'm happy with this now. The power station is about 15 miles away, and it was under a big storm cloud making it completely dark. There was rain between me and it, but beyond the station was brilliant sunshine. When you compare the power of humans in the form of the power station, with the power of nature in the form of sunshine and storms, there is only one winner!
johnloguk > 
The Reflection Challenge...01/05/09
The Challenge: Show us your interpretation of the word, "Reflection."
The Participants: Kre8ive, John (300m), Bill Pador, Karina Boese, The Curious Camel, Creative Deviance, Karina Boese, Lady Kate, MyKey, Trevlan, MSpencer, and myself.
The Result: Time for Reflection. I seem to spend a lot of time doing this lately, must be my age, "less infront of the horse than in the cart behind", as someone once said. This was last night at Whisby Nature Park, watching the coots and grebes playing submarines, quite spectacular. I'm never sure about the pylons in this view, but this time I think they add to the image, the contrast between nature and human influence I guess.  


Other photos from yesterday afternoon are here;  http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/gallery/7009684_pYXCC#448787681_V95pJ and here;  http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/gallery/5283916_hXRBX#448809509_3poMX
johnloguk > 15.1.09 - January

The last time I did one of these it was for November, because I was stunned at the amount of colour I found in a traditionally dull grey month. This is the same, from my couple of hours at Fiskerton Fen yesterday lunchtime. Light continues to amaze me, and yesterday was another of those incredible days, like a perpetual Golden Hour.

If you want to see more shots from yesterday, and there are a lot more, go to my new gallery here;   http://www.lightanddreamsphotography.com/gallery/7096993_TXGyZ#454957925_2XSCp
johnloguk > 4.1.10 - Glory Days!

This image is a labour of love, and it has been over 20 years in the making. It is a 3-shot photomerge panorama from some old transparencies taken on my first trip to the Nepal Himalaya back in 1988! The centre and right hand photos have appeared in a pano on the Dailies before, but until this evening I've not been able to join up the left hand shot of the mighty Ama Dablam. 

The problem was that the tones were slightly different, and I just could not get them to match up. So I decided to try a B&W conversion and a sepia filter over the top of the image, with a fair bit of cloning to match up the sky. It seemed to work, and a white vignette completed another Ansel Adams homage. I've added the mountain names for anyone who knows the area, so they can work out roughly where Taweche Towers is. I've said before that it is the single most beautiful and spectacular place I've ever been to, 18,500' up above the blazed trail from Namche Bazaar to Everest Base Camp, and rarely visited.
johnloguk > 9.5.09 - And the next one please............

It's a veritable rainbow fest over here at the moment. If I hadn't been so busy yesterday I could have photographed about a dozen of them. I wouldn't want anyone to think that we've had a lot of rain lately, we really haven't had much at all, but we have had a lot of short sharp squalls and lots of rainbows. You can see from the road that there isn't much rain, and I literally ran down the road with my camera as the rainbow was fading in front of my eyes.

There is a bigger view of the rainbow here;   http://johnloguk.smugmug.com/gallery/4053630_nJYqk#531831788_mtAru
johnloguk > 19.1.09 - Timeless

This is another shot from my walk yesterday, but I was so pleased with the sepia conversion that I had to share it with you in this format. I just love the old tree, I bet it could tell some tales. If you follow the Google Maps feature you will see a very detailed aerial photo, which shows the earthworks of the old mediaeval village around the church.

Here is the link to the whole gallery;  http://www.lightanddreamsphotography.com/gallery/7127583_esapS#457112216_4J8cP 

And here is a link to my Challenge Photo for today;  http://www.lightanddreamsphotography.com/gallery/7093288_hSxt4#457580777_ozJ3b
johnloguk > 31.1.09 - A Year on the Dailies :)

Yes I know, this is pic 367, but I posted 2 shots on 1 day. I'll be starting a new gallery tomorrow and seeing where it takes me. These are just a few of the photos that nearly made it to the Dailies, my biggest problem has always been to choose which shot to put in this gallery. I've not quite managed to take a photo every day, and had to resort to the archives every now and again, but I managed a lot more than I thought I would when I started!

Thanks for all the support and friendship over the last 12 months, I learnt so much and tried so many new things, there is always something new to try in photography! I hope that I can meet up with some of you during 2009, now that would be FUN :)
johnloguk > 25.3.09 - "Into the Valley of Death"

Another "Tennyson" image from the weekend, the quote from his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" sums up how I felt at times, being a landscape photographer taking images like this one for the actors' portfolios, but it was a wonderful experience and great fun, surrounded by very talented people. Don't forget to check out my previous Daily, which comes from the same shoot. Details of the project can be found here;  http://www.theladyofshalott.co.uk/index.html  More can be revealed when the film is launched in late May.

The really cool thing about this shot is that the glasses and pipe belonged to Tennyson himself.

Thanks for your patience with me on the Dailies over the last few days, I'll try and do some catching up now :)
19.3.09 - Cure for Insomnia

I couldn't get to sleep last night so at 2am I was playing in Elements trying to see if I could get close to one of Bill Pador's wonderful frame within a frame shots. I had no intention of posting it at the time, it was just a bit of fun, but now I'm home for lunch and thinking that it looks better than it did at 2am and so I might as well share it :)

The original image was taken yesterday afternoon, and I think it is apple or crab apple blossom, but I'm no expert.

Thanks for the kind words on the "watercolour" yesterday, and I hope that those of you who asked about the technique are having fun with it :)
johnloguk > 19.3.09 - Cure for Insomnia

I couldn't get to sleep last night so at 2am I was playing in Elements trying to see if I could get close to one of Bill Pador's wonderful frame within a frame shots. I had no intention of posting it at the time, it was just a bit of fun, but now I'm home for lunch and thinking that it looks better than it did at 2am and so I might as well share it :) 

The original image was taken yesterday afternoon, and I think it is apple or crab apple blossom, but I'm no expert. 

Thanks for the kind words on the "watercolour" yesterday, and I hope that those of you who asked about the technique are having fun with it :)
19.3.09 - Cure for Insomnia

I couldn't get to sleep last night so at 2am I was playing in Elements trying to see if I could get close to one of Bill Pador's wonderful frame within a frame shots. I had no intention of posting it at the time, it was just a bit of fun, but now I'm home for lunch and thinking that it looks better than it did at 2am and so I might as well share it :)

The original image was taken yesterday afternoon, and I think it is apple or crab apple blossom, but I'm no expert.

Thanks for the kind words on the "watercolour" yesterday, and I hope that those of you who asked about the technique are having fun with it :)
See photo in original gallery.

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