The Fat Cat
Seriously, I think this Cat needs to be put on a crash diet, have its door flap taped up and be set loose chasing the local fauna as soon as possible – a strict Feline training regime until the slobbery begins to fall away!
*Shot on a Canon 40d 10mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/4, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds*
Colour in the cold
A couple of intrepid ramblers skate along the tow path of a frozen Rochdale canal in Middleton, their vivid Winter clothing standing out against the bleak cold of the mute landscape (emphasised by the reduction in background colour to black and white).
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8.2mp dSLR using a Sigma 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DG macro lens set at ISO-400, f/4, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*
Leaving Winter behind
This plane passing overhead may just be a speck due to the height it’s flying, but the brilliant-white vapour trail its engines are leaving between the tattered clouds and the ice-blue sky tells us one thing: that at least some people can still afford vacations to Sunnier climes when the mercury doesn’t want to leave zero!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 28-300mm f/4-5.6 XR Di LD lens with settings at ISO-200, lens at f/5.6, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1600 seconds*
Flyby
A common Gull gliding leisurely past the end of my lens!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-100, lens at f/5.6, partial metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1250 seconds*
Obsolete technology
An old alloy plaque – its screw fixtures now just reduced to rusted blobs – that still adorns the outer wall of my block of flats, even though the ‘Telefusion Entrocom’ door entry system has not been functional for at least the last twenty-odd years!
You’ve gotta love your local Council for keeping up with the times, haven’t you?!
*Shot on a Canon 30d 8mp dSLR using a Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM lens with settings at ISO-200, lens at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/125 seconds*
First frosts
Across the whole of the UK this week, the temperature has dropped and finally ushered in Winter’s belated arrival and although the snow’s not blanketing us all as of yet, the frost is certainly nipping at our bones. To celebrate this mercury-lowering event, lets have a picture: this icicle has formed via water running across a dying fern’s roots, which just so happens to be hanging upside down from a train tunnel’s concave roof and in just the right position to form this wicked looking shard of ice.
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8mp dSLR using a Sigma 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens with settings at ISO-200, lens at f/4, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/200 seconds*
Abandoned
Poking up through some trees just past Jubilee Bends in Shaw, Oldham is a long-forgotten and abandoned chimney that belongs to Bee Mill. Amazingly, its crumbling red bricks are now home to saplings that have managed to garner a root hold many years before in the mortar-less grooves and probably continue to thrive due to the amount of rainfall the borough receives annually.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-100, lens at f/4.5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1250 seconds*
Down in the reeds
A shot taken from low within a reed bed, with the Sun setting its smudged orange across the distant horizon.
*Shot on a Canon 40d 10mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-200, lens at f/7.1, partial metering mode and an exposure time of 1/80 seconds*
Bored
The look on this poor Dog’s face tells us everything we ever need to know about being bored!
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-210mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens with settings at ISO-400, lens at f/5, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Confusion
A Limestone trail pointer that seems intent on confusing any passing walker whose looking for the right direction!
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8.2mp dSLR using a Canon EF 35-70mm f/3.5-5.6 lens set at ISO-100, f/5.6, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 