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Category Archives: autumn
A Lovely Dawn…
One of the joys (?) of the clocks being turned back is that you don’t have to get up at a silly hour to capture a cold sunny dawn. There was a time I would be found driving miles across … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gartree Explored
Tagged Dawn, Gartree - Explored, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, Raven, River Avon, sheep, sunrise, Swinford, Wind Turbine
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Damp Toes….
So the plan was to get out and capture few images in the neighbourhood before Storm Ciaran arrived. The images were going to reflect the very damp nature of things at the moment and perhaps maybe also capture some rich … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Photography
Tagged autumn, autumn Leaves, Everards Meadows, Flooding, River Soar, Storm Ciaran
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Young at Heart….
There is a point where the World Wide Web just can’t do justice to an image and three of these image proves that point. They contain so much detail that you need to look at them really closely. Unfortunately that … Continue reading
Aging Rock Star…
One of the many signs that age is catching up on you is when you visit a statue that memorialise something or someone from your formative period and you appear to be the only one who notices. Yesterday we visited … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Labour Party, Photography, Sculpture
Tagged Contemporary British Painting Prize 2003, Harold Wilson, Huddersfield, Red Wall, Statue
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All So Autumnal…
So autumn is starting to catch up. The storms of the past few days appear to have blown the last embers of summer out and we are slowly cooling off, but not as quickly as we probably should do. A … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gartree Explored, Photography
Tagged autumn, church, Gartree - Explored, Gravestone, Peatling Parva, Storms, Tree
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A VERY Smelly Ram…
I guess at one level a Ram’s life is a very easy one. Eat, Breath and F**K. That would seem to be their lot. Most of the time they hang around with other rams being, well, rams. I came across … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gartree Explored, Photography
Tagged Agriculture, Farming, Gartree - Explored, RAM, Rural, sheep, Smelly
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Last Post about AI Generated Content…for now
I’ve now spent a day or so playing around with Adobe’s Generate Fill option and I think I have got a reasonable first impression on it what it can and cannot do. The first thing that I have discovered is … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Jubilee Park, Photography
Tagged Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, AI, autumn, Fake Images, Fake News, Flooding, Generate Fill, Jubilee Park, River Soar, Swan, The Laughing Cavalier
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Fake Photo…or is it?
The more I use the content generation in Adobe software the more it is blowing my wind. The above image is perfectly normal captured with perhaps a wide or super wide lens. Nothing to see here you might think. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Jubilee Park, Photography
Tagged Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, autumn, Fake News, Fake Photo, Fix it in post, Flooding, Generate Fill, Jubilee Park, MacStudio, River Soar, Storm Babat, Swans
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Have a Nice Day…
I know we all know this but I think it is an important fact to restate: The iPhone camera, whichever version, is not as good as a ‘proper’ camera. What Apple are really good at is the software that handles … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Photography, Street Photography
Tagged camera, Canary Wharf, Elizabeth Line, Finance, Gordon Gekko, iPhone 13, National Gallery, Skyscraper, Sony, Street Photography, Trafalgar Square
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Don’t you wanta…
Part 2 of the Rain Stopped Play was to have a day in London and do a bit of tourism. London really is another world, well actually it is the rest of the world. Take a walk along the streets … Continue reading
