Crimson & yellow
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/320 seconds*
Shadows & Sunshine
*Shot on a Canon 70d 20.2mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 IS L lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/14, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/200 seconds*
Ackerman
*Shot on a Samsung S10+ 12mp phone camera with camera settings at ISO-50, aperture at f/2.4, centre-weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
Filling in the gap
*Shot on a Canon 5d Mk II 21.1mp full-frame dSLR using a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/10 seconds*
Orange fly on white flowers
*Shot on a Canon 70d 20.2mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 IS L lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/200 seconds*
Pink within the green
*Shot on a Canon 6d 20.2mp full-frame dSLR using a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro lens with settings at ISO-50, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Window arches
*Shot on a Canon 6d 20.2mp full-frame dSLR using a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Curlew in the grass
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/7.1 spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds*
Hoverflies in yellow
*Shot on a Canon 6d 20.2mp full-frame dSLR using a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Pareidolia: rockface or rock-face?
Across Catlow Fell in the Forest of Bowland, between lofty Raven’s Castle (482 metres/ 1581 feet) and the craggy Bowland Knotts (430 meters/ 1410 feet) stands a jumble of boulders jutting from the raised grassland. This easily-missed collection of grey rocks is named Cold Stone (402 metres/ 1318 feet) and once you get close to them, you realise that the stones form a slight ridge that runs for around 300 yards or so, with the right-hand edge being the highest and most prominent point.
Further to the left, the ridge gradually disappears into the ground and it’s around this point that I spotted an amazing pareidolia effect within the shadow-cast rockfaces, in conjunction with the overhead Sun, which created an actual ‘rock-face’ within in the weather-worn gritstones!
Reminds me of something you would find in old monster movies, once the adventurers’ had made landfall on a distant and mysterious island and the special-effects geniuses would then work their stop-animation magic over a backdrop of towering cliffs, usually with a cave opening that looks like a just-visible face in the rocks…
*Shot on a Samsung S10+ 12mp phone camera with camera settings at ISO-50, aperture at f/2.4, centre-weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/900 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 