Lulworth Cove

I spent Christmas in a cottage in West Lulworth, Dorset.  This was about a 15 minute walk from Lulworth cove, and I was easily able to visit the cove each day.  Sadly, the grey dull misty weather, that dominated December, continued, with only a couple of decent days. At least it made slow shutter pans easy. Dawn was at a civilised time, but that meant I didn't get the beach to myself. There were a lot of swimmers braving the water each day, mostly women.  I wasn't comfortable photographing them, but a paddle boarder and a local fisherman were fair game.

End of Year iPhone Roundup

As the number of posts on this blog will testify, I haven't been out with the 'proper' camera as much as I would have liked this year. I always have my iPhone with me, and here is a selection of some of my favourite iPhone images from 2024.

Cambridge Chrstmas

I wasn't able to attend the rescheduled CCC outing on Sunday, to shoot the Christmas lights in Cambridge.  But I did make it in for a couple of hours today. I stayed fairly central, mainly around Kings Parade and the Market Square.

Derwent Water

I recently had a short trip to the Lake District, based in Keswick.  I was only there 2 full days.  The focus of the trip was to knock another 4 hills of my dwindling to-do list (just 10 left).  The weather was not kind.  I prioritised the dry (but grey and misty) day for the 13 mile loop I had to walk.  Which left a raining grey day for photography.  I started off looking for autumn colour, but that wasn't working, so I ended up by the water trying some minimalist misty monos.

Towards the end of the day, the rain had stopped and the sky opened up little.  There was almost a sunset.  Almost.

Wimpole Infrared

More IR.  A few shots from Wimpole taken a couple of weekends ago.  This time rendered in monochrome.

Light Painting at Paxton Pits

During the week, I attended a light painting workshop at Paxton Pits, organised by the Friends of Paxton Pits, and run by Peter Wood.  Peter started with a talk in the visitor's centre.  He showed us some of his work and talked about the equipment he used.  Once it was dark enough, we headed out to the meadow behind the visitor's centre.  Peter first did a couple of demonstrations of what he can achieve. Rather irritatingly my remote release came loose just as Peter was starting his second painting, by the time I was reconnected I had missed part of it. Hence the odd gap in the right hand side of the second image.

 

 

We then spent the rest of the session, seeing what we could achieve on our own.

Cambridge IR

Another set of IR images, this time from a longer stroll around Cambridge.  All of my channel swaps have been done using DxO PhotoLab 7, which I find easier to use for this than Photoshop, and with a more interesting colour range.