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Dreams of summer

14 Thursday May 2015

Posted by Karen in Just because....

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art, fine art, landscape, photoaday, Photography

Beach life

Being stuck at work in an office all day, I took the time this lunchtime to look over some of my older photos as I am currently resorting my Lightroom catalogue, making sure they are all tagged, rated and sorted. I am also creating a book from the photos I took last year.

With the rain hitting the windows and the summer holidays getting closer this photo caught my eye, oh how I would like to be on this beach at the moment, relaxing with a good book and listening to the lapping waves and wildlife in the background. Bliss

Up against the forces of nature

09 Saturday May 2015

Posted by Karen in Weekly Photo Challenge

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art, Beauty, fine art, landscape, nature, photoaday, Photography

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”              – John Ruskin

Sunset at the Cobb

The Daily Post photo challenge this week is “Forces of Nature” in which we are encouraged to share a force of nature from our corner of the world. “It can be something as large as the Grand Canyon, or as small as the tiny seedling steadily breaking is way through the concrete in your driveway.”

I so love taking photos of nature in all its beauty, from the sunset and waves crashing against the sea wall in Lyme Regis as in my top photo to

Frosty morning walk

the beautiful frosty grass and sunrays shining down on an early morning stroll in the park.

A Circumzenithal arc

Then there are upside-down rainbows which are a rare phenomenon caused by refraction of sunlight through horizontally-oriented ice crystals. This usually occurs in cirrus stratus clouds rather than raindrops on cold days as well as

Seeing double

beautiful double rainbows.

Golden leaf

To me when leaves fall to the ground the beauty does not end as can be seen above, even in decay when seen close up through a macro lens, the skeleton can look so beautiful – like golden lace.

Texture Tuesday – the light edition

21 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in Texture Tuesday

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art, fine art, flowers, landscape, photoaday, Photography, textures

My theme this week is centered around the word LIGHT.

Well what I did was as follows:

  1. Added a little fill light (5%) in Lightroom 5
  2. Increased the contrast (5%) in Lightroom 5
  3. Adjusted the clarity slightly (15%) in Lightroom 5
  4. Transfered to Photoshop cc
  5. Ran the coffee shop action (sun-kissed)
  6. Placed the flare point at the top left (50-300 zoom @ 100%)
  7. Reduced the lighter layer to 30%
  8. Increased the contrast to 75%
  9. Decreased the orange tones to 75%
  10. kk_shine, multiply @ 50% opacity
  11. Text layer and watermark added.

The pre straight out of camera shot is here below I felt like doing a more literal take on the theme too, with this Lighthouse Here is what I did to this photo:

  1. No adjustments made in Lightroom
  2. Transfered to Photoshop cc
  3. Duplicated the background, screen @ 60% opacity
  4. Created a Layer mask and took the effect of this adjustment off of the sky, with the brush opacity at 90%.
  5. Duplicated the background, hard light @ 30% opacity
  6. Created a Layer mask and took the effect of this adjustment off of the foreground, with the brush opacity at 90%.
  7. Levels adjustment to boost the whites
  8. High pass filter, hardlight & 25% opacity
  9. kk_plastersquared, multiply @ 70% opacity
  10. Watermark added.

As before the pre straight out of camera shot is here below Let me know what you think, as usual I prefer the originals, but I am having a lot of fun learning new “tricks” 🙂

The early bird catches………..

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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art, classics, daily, fine art, landscape, photoaday, Photography, Poetry

“Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”

– Horace Mann

London sunrise

Everyone at one time or another has been in awe of the beautiful red and orange colours of a sunrise or sunset. Although colourful sunrises and sunsets can be seen anywhere, certain parts of the world are especially famous for their twilight hues.

Suburban garden views

In the days before weather forecasts, people often turned to sayings and proverbs to provide some sort of indication of what the weather would be like in the next day.

  • “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning”

The saying is actually most reliable when the weather systems predominantly come from the west as they do in the UK. “Red sky at night, shepherds delight” can often be proven true, since red sky at night means fair weather is generally headed towards you.

A red sky appears when dust and small particles are trapped in the atmosphere by high pressure. This scatters blue light and leaving only red light to give the sky its notable appearance.

A red sky at sunset means high pressure is moving in from the west so therefore the next day will usually be dry and pleasant. “Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning” means a red sky appears due to the high pressure weather system having already moved east meaning the good weather has passed, most likely making way for a wet and windy low pressure system.

  • St Swithun’s Day

A folklore myth that whatever the weather is like on 15 July will be how it is on the following 40 days and nights.

The Jet Stream does play an important part in predicting how the weather would be for the next 40 days and nights from the end of June or early July. The location of the jet stream shortly after the summer solstice largely determines the following summer’s weather. If the jet stream is located southerly then it is likely to be a more unsettled summer. If the jet stream is in a northerly position then the weather is likely to be brighter and dry throughout summer.

  • When halo rings show around the Moon or Sun, rain’s approaching on the run

When a ring appears around the Moon or Sun, sometimes referred to as Haloes, this suggests of approaching rainfall. The Halo is caused by ice crystals formed in high clouds. These ice crystals then refract the light from the Moon or Sun. As the ice crystals travel lower, precipitation becomes more likely. In summer months particularly, the Halo can be a sign of approaching storms.

A ring appearing around the Moon or Sun may also be a result of a Corona. Where the formation of a Halo is due to light refraction, a Corona is formed from light being diffracted. As the light travels through the cloud, it is deflected around the water droplets. This causes a Corona which appears as a circle around the light source.

  • “When the wind is out of the East, tis never good for man nor beast”

This weather proverb carries some truth if you consider the various air masses that affect Britain and its weather. The air mass coming in from a North- Easterly direction is the Polar Continental; record low temperatures have been seen due to this air mass affecting Britain. This air mass originates in places such as Eastern Europe and Russia to affect Britain with bitterly cold winds in winter and dry, warm winds in summer although it is usually only apparent in Britain during winter (between November and April).

  • “Mackerel sky and mare’s tails make tall ships carry low sails”

This weather proverb originates from a nautical background when different cloud types were used to determine whether sails needed to be lowered. Also referred to as just a ‘mackerel sky’, it is associated with altocumulus clouds while ‘mare’s tails’ refer to cirrus clouds. Both could develop before the instance of a storm which would lead to the lowering of the ships sails. Altocumulus clouds appear when there is a certain level of moisture in the air suggesting rainfall is approaching. The term “mackerel sky” comes from the clouds resemblance to the the scales of the fish mackerel.

  • “Rain before seven, fine by eleven”

This refers to the fact that weather systems tend to be variable and move through the UK fairly quickly with the westerly flow off the Atlantic. Whilst this can sometimes means that a low pressure front may have moved through in a morning, this is not always the case and rain can and often does stay around for longer than a morning.

Whilst this saying may sometimes be true, it is far from reliable.

Early morning sunshine

Another benefit of watching the sun rise is catching those first warm tones as the sun low in the sky starts to warm up the world on a frosty winters morning.

The prompt this week on the daily post was “get up early and explore the morning light”, I am not really a early bird, much preferring to watch the sunset, but in the winter months when the sunrise is at a more “social hour” I often head outside, if it looks like the sunrise will be a picturesque one. The only time I really get a chance during the summer months is when my kids are at school and I am on holiday as at any other time my photography time can be a little on the restricted side, as my family for me always has to come first.

I’ll tell you how the Sun rose

by Emily Dickenson

I’ll tell you how the sun rose,–
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
“That must have been the sun!”

But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.

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All the weather information was found on The Met office website

Land ahoy!

12 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in Just because...., Weekly Photo Challenge

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art, fine art, landscape, photoaday, Photography

Calmness on the Wey

The Daily Post weekly prompt is “show us what afloat means to you.”

To me afloat brings visions of the waterways near where I live, the Basingstoke and Wey River Canals, the River Thames, the sea that surrounds us as, being an island no where in the UK are you ever that far from water.

Coastal bound

Sail away

What a view!

20 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in courses, Practice

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art, Canada, landscape, photo101, photoaday, Reflections

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

– Roberto Assagioli

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Days end

The prompt for Photo 101 today was “snap a picture of a landscape. Focus on the gestalt — the entire setting as a whole — rather than a specific subject or focal point within the scene. The setting itself is the star.”

I thought for todays prompt I would just let the photos do the talking, please let me know what you thin? These were all taken on my last holiday to Canada (August 2014).

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Climbing to the top

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Reflections

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Bridge over still waters

Dreaming of warmer days

12 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in courses, Practice

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art, fine art, landscape, photigraphy101, photo101, Photography, poem, Poetry, Postaday

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

– George Eastman

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The perfect ending

Today on Photography 101 the topic is “warmth and quality of light”, we were asked to use the sun as our source of light.

To me the warm colours of the setting sun fit this prompt perfectly. Coincidently I am doing a year long project of different sources of light, posting every Friday, so this theme made me smile. For the last four weeks I looked at was shadows and I had so much fun, for the next few weeks I am concentrating on backlighting (just hoping that we have some more nice sunny days so that I can shoot outside for these).

War memorial at sunset

War memorial at sunset

Sunset

They say a sunset is an artist’s pallet,
Of colors so intense and full of pigment,
A photographer’s dream.

Tonight they are the colors of autumn,
Of reds, yellows, green.
The shadows that fall,
Bring the night to life.

First the crickets dance all night.
Then the hoot owls,
Call hidden from sight.

The mares call to their foals,
a play in the fields,
“Time to bed down my little ones.”

The cattle are lowing for food
Their one thought, before they rest themselves
In slumber to the sounds of the night.

The birds call to each other,
Telling them of free food,
High above the house of cats.

The barking of dogs as they round
Up their charges safe in for the night.

The children run laughing,
Being chased one more time.
Before the parents drop them
Exhausted on their beds made of clouds.

The colors are now the deepest of colors,
A painter’s pallet forever changing.

As the moon softly sings us the lullaby,
“To sleep my children, to sleep.”

by Jessica Bood

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