What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
These words came to mind when I looked at this photo of me taken by a friend. In the vastness of space, we are but insignificant creatures living on a tiny planet in orbit around an average star in one corner of a galaxy amongst billions of galaxies!
At Heysham on Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, UK.
Wicken Fen is the oldest nature reserve managed by the National Trust. The nature reserve preserves some of the last remaining wetlands in Europe and is home to many species of plants, birds and insects. The following picture is of the Wicken Fen wind pump, the last surviving wooden wind powered wind pump used to drain the Fens. Click on the picture for a larger version on Flickr, and best appreciated in large size!
Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 105mm, f/2.8 lens Bracketed 3 shot HDR merged in Photomatix Pro and processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
A glorious sunset over the Pacific Ocean from the Torrey Pines state park near San Diego!
I used my friends kindly loaned Canon 60D with a 40mm prime lens for this shot. Marginally processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Home grown foods are tasty, and some have very pretty flowers too – like these purple bean flowers. This is the first year I’ve grown these and now I harvest more than half-a-kilo of delicious fresh purple beans every two days!
There is this rose bush in my garden which struggles to survive every year regardless of what I try to do make it feel happy. But year on year it produces one or two of these really vibrant flowers in autumn! Just one of two roses sadly before the winter frosts kick in.
Technical Details:
Nikon D7000 with a 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens
f/18, 1/250 second, ISO200
Remote slave flash SB800
This year I grew cosmos plants for the first time (from seed that too).. and they’ve now grown to a height of about 2 metres!! Lovely pink flowers held up on thin stalks. The height of these flowers means that they’ve opened themselves up to being photographed from underneath against the backdrop of the blue sky (as below).
Technical Details:
Nikon D7000 with 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens
ISO200, 1/100sec, f/13 manual mode
PP in Adobe Lightroom 5.5
Audley End house is a magnificent example of a 17th century stately home near Saffron Walden in Essex. The property was also once a royal palace in the time of Charles II (1668) who purchased the property for £5 in order to be able to attend races at Newmarket. Audley End is now managed by English Heritage but all paintings and period decorations are from the original time and form part of a private collection.
HDR composed of three bracketed shots at -2, 0 and +2 exposures and processed in Photomatix Pro. Please click on the photo for a larger version.
At the top of the Barcelona Cathedral, round windows reminiscent of hobbit dwelling windows!
I’d read before that Birmingham was successful as a manufacturing site due to the canals that allowed the transport of raw material to and export of finished items from this city.
In my many visits to England’s second city this was the first time I made it anywhere close to a canal. First impressions – I need to come back here again prepared for photography.
Juridicious 