Autumn was short in the United Kingdom this year, at least in Cambridge. The wet summer (that started with a drought water conservation order!) didn’t appear to leave enough time for trees to flourish and then adorn their autumnal colours before the freezing temperatures kicked in.
Hopefully 2013 will be a better year for photography!
This is what the future may look like. We probably won’t need a babelfish in our ears to translate languages. While this is only a technology demonstrator, it has enormous potential.
And this could have other benefits too – saving languages from extinction. Recent reports suggest that many thousands of languages will be extinct by the turn of this century as native speakers increasingly turn to international languages for economic reasons. With a translator (in the next 4-5 decades), the need to be able to speak another language fluently may no longer be necessary, and the increasingly boring harmonisation of the world may yet be stopped.
From many years ago that I found looking at my pictures on Flickr. And on dull and depressing days like these, nothing like bright roses to bring back the feeling of summer!
These pictures were shot using a Olympus C750UZ camera 7 years ago!!
I am fortunate to work within walking distance of two English villages (Ickleton and Hinxton). The parish church of St. Mary Magdalene in Ickleton dates back to the 11th century and is a fine example of a medieval Norman church. A serious fire in 1979 exposed wall paintings from the 12th century. The following picture is from my walk yesterday when exactly at 1PM, the church bell tolled!
Photo from an iPhone 4S with no adjustments or post-processing.
Winters are well and truly here in the United Kingdom. The weather changes in a matter of minutes going from bright blue skies to dark thundery clouds and cold winds to rain. These pictures are from last friday near Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and show how the weather changed in about 20 minutes.
All pictures shot with an iPhone 4S using the Camera! Awesome App. These images were then post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 4.1 to adjust white balance and contrast as necessary.
As I wasn’t close to my computer today, I decided to post a picture of stuffed red pepper that was my dinner yesterday. I am also posting this via the phone so I’ve no idea how this may look on a larger screen.
Image originally taken using iPhone 4S, then processed in snapseed and camera awesome. The contrast between the reds of the pepper against the steel and black of the over made it an interesting exercise.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering about the recipe – you can find it here.
October gets over today, and cold rain and winds lash Cambridge. The nights come early. In the midst of all this, a single rose valiantly blooms for the last time in 2012.
Technical Details:
Nikon D80 with external Speedlight SB-600 flash Tamron 18-250 f/3.6-6.3 Lens 1/60 at f/6.0 130mm ISO200 Post-processed using Adobe Lightroom 4.1
At the Borra caves near Visakhapatham, a stalactite formation looks uncannily like Darth Vader, maybe even Emperor Palpatine. What do you think? Click on the picture for a large version.
Technical Details:
Nikon D80 Tamron 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens at 32mm 1/60 f/5.6 ISO1600
Autumn mornings offer a great chance to see myriad spider webs drenched in the early morning dew making a million natural necklaces of tiny pearly dew drops. I took these pictures on just one such day. The industrious spider had built this web on the clothesline overnight.
I am constantly amazed at the persistence of the spider to continually attempt to make a web in the most unlikely of places, day after day. Maybe there is a lesson in it for us all….
Technical details
Nikon D80 Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens Nikon Speedlight SB-600 flash Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4.1
I seem to have forgotten to post this photograph of a British butterfly to go with the other two I have posted before. The picture is that of a common blue butterfly. The males are bluish in colour but the females have varying amounts of blue.
Seems like a good way to remember the summer gone by and the dreary winters yet to come!
Juridicious 