Just the weather…
… for an ice cream, isn’t it?!
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/4.5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/2000 seconds*
FIr cone alone
A solitary Fir cone sits rooted on a needle-festooned branch, its gnarled scales in mid-gape and awaiting a brisk wind to disperse any trapped seeds which may be left within the browned husk.
*Shot on an Olympus E-P1 12mp micro 4/3 system digital camera using a Sigma Super Mini ll 28mm 1:2.8 lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/2.8, centre-weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/125 seconds*
Ramshackled
Once more to Hollingworth Lake in Littleborough to find this palatial but ramshackled house, which has sat abandoned with faded newspapers covering its windows and its timber frame rotting away for as long as I can remember (I won’t say how long that is as it’ll give away my age)!
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/3.2, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/2000 seconds*
Feel the burn!
A couple of early-morning rowers – a shot once again taken on Hollingworth Lake in Littleborough – fight against the freezing temps as their oars slice through the surface water as they ‘feel the burn’.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1250 seconds*
Cold feet
A Black-head Gull stands upon the ice of Hollingworth Lake in Littleborough as its feathers are buffeted by a gust of wind, almost making the sea bird appear to be shivering from the cold (their webbed feet do not sweat and the blood vessels restrict as the temperature drops, so they don’t feel the cold like us)!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
Radial span
The wired symmetry of amalgamated telephone lines radiate outwards in a listening span of communications…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/200 seconds*
Folded
A metal ‘(no stopping) at any time’ sign creased and folded double; by whom, nobody knows…
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Sigma 18-125mm DC lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/15 seconds*
Flakes falling (yet again)
A lad wearing over-sized blue earphones sits on the back of a Bus, oblivious to the bite-size flakes of snow tumbling from the sky outside on the other side of the glass.
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-1600, aperture at f/6.3, partial metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1250 seconds*
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Fabric petals
With plastic stems and fake grasses thrusting skyward around them, the fabric petals of these false flowers could almost pass as the real thing with their delicate, cross-hatched designs…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/2.8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/320 seconds*
Mallard Drake close-up
A water-splashed Mallard Drake glides gently across the Rochdale canal’s surface, seemingly oblivious to the moron with a camera just feet away!
*Shot on a Canon 350d 8.2mp dSLR using a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG lens set at ISO-200, aperture at f/7.1, pattern metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
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