Photowalk 55: First For The New Year!

Boy o boy, it felt good to get out with the camera today - I haven't been for a Photowalk all year! Anyway, it was a lovely crisp lunch-time, not the best part of the day to take photographs, but the light looked OK and I needed to take some frames!

The coat, gloves, scarf and hat went on, a fresh set of batteries in my S5700, and it was off to see what I could see!

Black Cat

Saw this painted on a garage door on the way to the co-op and had to take a quick snap, knelt down to reduce optical distortion and played with layers in Elements.

Forton Creek

The sky was really blue today, and popping my polarizing filter on boosted the colour even more. I saw the trees and their great shadows, but they were at the wrong angle to get a nice composition. Then a jet appeared high up, so I took a quick photo including that in the frame.

F239, HMS Richmond Type 23 Frigate

I have to say that the wind was whipping in off the water, and every time I took my gloves off to handle my camera my fingers were freezing!

I've always got to take a photo when I see a ship re-arming at Priddys Hard. I under-exposed this one to get around the bright sunlight reflecting off the ships hull, but it's a bit soft, probably because I was shivering too much!

Now That Is A Surprise....

So there I was, taking my usual route towards Priddys Hard, next to a small nature reserve, when I turned a corner to be confronted by two big hairy cows! I haven't seen them here before, and unfortunately they kept their heads down, munching away most of the time, so I couldn't get a good photograph, but this will do until next time.

All in all, today I dusted off a few cobwebs, got a bit of my photography "groove" back on, and hopefully I'll be out again soon!

Cheers, Rob.

Comments

[shade]

nice picture in great color

[Rob_Nunn]

Hi Shade,

Thanks, felt very rusty, but it was good to get back out with the camera again.

Cheers, Rob.