Water Reflections at Chippingham Park

 We got up early this morning, well 07:00am, and decided to take a run out to Chippenham Park and Gardens. We have never been and as the Hall is only open from January (ish) till 1st April and we have forgotten to go in the last few years this seemed an excellent idea.

One of the main features of the park as we started walking round was a 'water stream'. I decided as the light was quite beautiful that I would take some reflections (one of my standard ongoing projects). The water was great and as I was taking the images I though that these needed to be inverted so the reflection was the 'wrong way' in other words the reflection was the scene.

Most of these images are inverted. I will let you decide which is which :)

Andy Parachute Jump

 Last Sunday Andy went skydiving today at Chatteris Airfield.  ‘Why would you want to jump out of a plane!!. It was supposed to happen last year, or maybe the year before that. He asked me if I would go and take photos. Not being a person to say no to an opportunity like that. 

He had to be at the Airfield at 7:30am and I was to join him after his briefing. As it turned out I did not need to go until noon. 

Beautiful day for it. I spoke to one of Andy’s friends after the jump and he said it was blooming cold up there. As I say ‘Why would you want to jump out of a plane’

The Road Home

The Road Home

The First Image .....

As I cannot drive at the moment I am finding it quite nice being chauffeured driven and I get to look out of the window at the countryside. The downside is I get to see all the litter that has been thrown out of cars - 'Why'? 

Anyway I also get to play with my phone camera out of the passenger seat window. 

This image is using the Slow Shutter Speed App and I took a number of images today using this. Sue had to pop into the Farm Shop on the way home and I played with another  phone app called PhotoSplit. Using the multiple exposure template I loaded two of the SlowShutter Speed shots and blended them to give a pleasing 'pastle' result. 

When I got home and imported them into Lightroom and I realised I saved the result twice. I fiddled with both images and on the second image I reduced Texture and Clarity to -100 and achieved a very soft effect. I imported these two versions as layers into photoshop and played around with the blend mode and opacity of the soft image just to add to the pastel effect.

The other images....

 where all taken using the Slow Shutter Speed App and adjusted in Lightroom

 

Cambridge Half Marathon

Great day out on Sunday supporting daughter Frances and her friend competing in the Cambridge Half Marathon.

All procures taken with the Canon 5Dmkiv and Canon 100 - 400mm series ii lens. I set the camera to Manual  with shutter speed at 1/400th sec and f/6.3 with auto ISO. I hindsight I should have had the shutter speed higher.

Over 14000 participants. I took over 400 photos, many duplicates but managed to choose these as my favourites.  I am not a sports photographer but I do enjoy taking pictures of people enjoying theirselves.