Tag: Photography

Off Season and Decayed

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This week, we challenge you to show us what off-season means to you. It could be the shuttered ice-cream stand in the Southern Hemisphere where winter is drawing near. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere it might your snowmobile peeking out from beneath its tarp, or your Christmas decorations arranged neatly in the attic. Feel free to interpret this theme loosely — consider objects at rest and unmoved, places that are stagnant or abandoned.

Can’t wait to see how you interpret this challenge!

This is Krista’s challenge at the daily Post this week. I struggled to think of anything until I re-read the last sentence and then it fell into place.
The paraphernalia of the world of fishing and the sea shore fascinates me, I have no idea what most of it is, but I do like to photograph it. So here are some photos taken in winter on the beach at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

If you would like to join in visit Krista here.

Playing with a seedhead photo

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In a local park there is a sensory garden, filled with fragrant flowers and plants that are lovely to touch. I’d love to be able to capture the scent, but the best I could manage was this photo of a seedhead on my phone.seedy1st

Inspired by Jude’s bench challenge, I’ve been dabbling with editing a again recently and this pic seemed like one to try. seeds4

So I sent it to my tablet and opened it with Pixlr, dropped it four times into a collage and tweaked the colour slightly. seedyThe last thing I did was to pick the creative option, Gadelf, before sending it back to Photoshop on my laptop., where I simply used enhance/auto level to get the result above.

Simple Meg?

Parent Craft in the Ape world

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There are some very cute ape families at Paignton Zoo. Like all of us primate families, they have their trials and tribulations, so the mums like to get together for a chat, it’s what keeps them sane.

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Experienced mums share tips with the first timers, on breastfeeding and how to cope with a lack of sleep .
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Dad? well he’s looking out for the toddlers, making sure they play nicely.

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But they get a bit boisterous, and he’s out of his depth.

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‘I’ll count to ten and when I turn around . . .’

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‘Oh for goodness sake, wait until your mum gets home!’

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‘She started it dad.’

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‘He’s asleep, quick Toby, let’s push her over the wall before they notice.’

‘Good idea, more lunch for us then.’

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‘Clive, CLI-IVE, what are those kids up to? I hope you’ve been watching them, I don’t have eyes in the back of my head you know.’

I had my hands full at the zoo yesterday, helping my daughter with Scarlett and Layla, two of my grandmonkies, so I left the photography to their dad, who’s a professional photographer. Thanks for letting me use your photos Steve!

Gaudi’s Mosaics at Guell

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Eusebi Guell entrusted Gaudi to create an estate for wealthy people, in Barcelona on land that he purchased in the Monumental zone, high above the city where the air was clean and healthy. Unfortunately the project was not viable and Guell halted it in in 1914. When Guell died his family offered the property to the city council. They purchased it in 1922 and opened it as a public park four years later.
Since then Gaudi has become an international treasure, and his creation was declared a Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1984. Here are some the fabulous mosaics in the park.

And here is Eusebi Guell himself, standing in the Hippostyle room.
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Vivid Beauties

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I walked past a neighbours house on my way home just now and she was tending her front garden. I said ‘Hi how are you?’ and before I had chance to comment on the glorious poppies I’ve been admiring for the last week, she said ‘Would you like some of these seed heads when they’re ready?’ Did I pounce? You bet I did!
So with a bit of luck this time next year I’ll have my own.
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Imagine when I saw that the photo challenge this week is vivid, it was made for these flowers don’t you think?
If anyone knows what variety these are, my neighbour and I would both love to know please.

A Bench Edit

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Jude’s Bench Challenge for June is to process and image with an arty effect, hooray, that’s licence to play!

I’ve used Photoshop, Pixlr and Snapseed to create this image, but I can’t remember what steps I took to get to the end result.

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The photo was taken on the beach path at Dawlish Warren in February. The perspective makes it appear that its a row of single seats but they are in fact benches for two or three peopel. I do quite like the end result and I expect I’ll try some more this month. Perhaps you’ll join in too?