Globules (yet again)
It’s that time yet again it seems: a sudden overnight drop in temperatures across the UK means another picture of a frozen water droplet involving blades of grass (if it stays bitterly cold outdoors, I’ll have enough variations on the old “chilly” theme to fill half-a-year’s blog at this rate)!
*Shot on a Ricoh GRD ll 10mp digital camera with settings at ISO-100, fixed lens set at 28mm, aperture at f/3.2, centre average meter mode and an exposure time of 1/125 seconds*
Standing tall
I think the title says everything that needs to be said about this Jack Russell cross, really!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 MKll lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/2.5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
The cemetery
A silhouetted Angel surveys a pitch cemetery from its plinth as lofty Sun-tinged clouds blot the canopy a warmed ochre, inviting any sleeping souls to awaken and ascend from this mortal coil…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/2.8, centre weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/2000 seconds*
Pebbled stream bed
The stream’s water continues to flow forth from its source, governed only by gravity’s pull and Earth’s magnetic forces to steer its course; and as the dancing liquid constantly blankets the stream bed pebbles, they become sculpted into smoother and smaller forms, grinding themselves into a dissipated grit that flushes away as Time ticks yet another Millennium by.
And as I sit and watch the glinting, chased fluid perpetually glide, I’m aware of one simple fact: I’ll be long gone from the world before this stream’s water stops flowing…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/3.2, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/4 seconds*
Twilight arrives…
… as the previous day bows out with a spectacular Sunset, illuminating a fracture between the parted clouds and the rapidly darkening horizon.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
Abandoned Bunny basket
A Bunny basket dangles abandoned from the branch of a Birch tree, its fluffed ears flattened by the damp and its colours muted by the outside cold.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/4000 seconds*
Rippled water
Ogden reservoir from low down, looking across the choppy water towards the dam wall; just beyond is P.W. Greenhaigh’s bleach works situated on Ogden Lane, represented within this picture by its towering chimney.
*Shot on a Sony a700 12mp dSLR using a manual M42 mount Helios 58mm f/2 lens with settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/2, centre weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds*
Pied Wagtail alarmed
A Pied Wagtail – its usually pendulous tail reduced to a stub – perches upon a rusting “No Swimming” sign and sounds out an alarm call, telling all living things around that there just happens to be a moron below pointing a camera in its general direction!
*Shot on a Canon 1D Mark ll N 8.2mp professional dSLR using a Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM lens set at ISO-125, aperture at f/9, centre weighted meter mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
A thousand million flakes falling
Yet another cold snap brings sudden snowfall across the whole of the UK, as this lone driver learns as he attempts to escape the worst of this God-damn ‘frozen white water falling from the sky’!
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8.2mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS lens set at ISO-400, aperture at f/4, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/60 seconds*
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Land of Sleeping Giants
The moorland hills of Denshaw are parted by the A640 – otherwise known as Huddersfield road – as its tarmac snakes and curves around the Dowry reservoir and the adjacent water, New Years Bridge reservoir. Entering the frame from the left-hand side along this sliver of white-dashed pitch is a silver Rover MG ZR, reduced to nothing more than a mere echoing speck within this Land of Sleeping Giants.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Sigma 18-125mm DC lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/6.3, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/80 seconds*
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