Plastic Fallen Angel
This Cherub has taken a tumble of sorts and has been left with a fractured crack running down its cheek: a Post-Modern, plastic fallen Angel!
Which way?
A Chaffinch perches upon a signpost near Tandle Hills – the moorland of Blackstone Edge rolling across the horizon in the background – seemingly confused in which direction to continue!
Rusty bolt
A weathered post shows its age, with a cluster of Lichen surrounding a rusted square nut of the bolt holding its flaking wood together.
Prickly
A close-up shot of the web-strewn spikes of a Spear Thistle.
Windswept Pony
A close-up shot of a Pony’s hazel-coloured eye, its tussled mane swirling in a strengthening gale high on moorland near the Oldham/Rochdale border.
*Shot on a Canon 40d 10mp dSLR using a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 mkll lens at ISO-200, f/5.6, metering mode set to spot and an exposure time of 1/125 seconds*
Oak leaf clusters
While stomping past a small glade as the night dropped in, I turned and fired off the above shot using the camera’s flash. (As I normally shot with an Olympus E-P1, a camera that doesn’t have a built-in flash, I tend to miss a lot of detail after-hours!) The resulting picture is of an Oak tree’s splayed leaves and the bright light illuminating the differing shades of green across its branches.
*Shot on a Ricoh GR Digital ll 10mp digital camera with settings at ISO-200, a fixed lens of 28mm open at f/2.8 and an exposure time of 1/30 seconds*
Faster than a…
… speeding train on its way from Mills Hill station on the Chadderton/Middleton border and off towards Rochdale city centre along the length of the canal at Castleton.
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8mp dSLR using a Sigma 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens with settings at ISO-400, lens at f/29, metering mode set to pattern and an exposure time of 1/15 seconds*
Mirror image
The surface of Ogden reservoir is for once flat and calm, perfect for capturing the mirror image of a small thicket of season-changing trees on the opposite bank, plus the passing Common Gull and its reflection.
*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-250, lens at f/6.3, metering mode set to spot and an exposure time of 1/100 seconds*
The slog
A fell runner pounds onwards across moorland and through the differing elements of early Winter, intent on reaching the warmth of his car at the end of the gruelling route.
*Shot on an Olympus E-P1 12mp micro 4/3 system digital camera using a Sirius 500mm f/8.8 mirror lens with camera settings at ISO-640, f/8.8 and an exposure time of 1/40 seconds*
Intertwined
A stalk of grass has used this barbed-wire fence as support for its growth, which has inevitably led to both becoming intertwined in a battle of the Man-made against Mother Nature (remember, steel eventually rusts away).
Stretch the Horizon 