Guernsey 2017 Revisited - Colour Concrete

Whilst I was creating the mono concrete images yesterday I created a mono preset in Lightroom to create an initial consistency between the images. They say brainwaves come from mistakes, whist I was applying my preset I happened to click on a different preset that I use with some of my abstract images. 'Wow' I thought to myself. Now I am sure the resultant images here are not going to be to everyones taste but I quite like the Gritty subdued images that were produced. Each image had to have a bit of a tweak following the application of the preset (as is normal)

Guernsey 2017 Revisited - Mono Concrete

Over the past few years I have been attracted to Concrete Architecture. I had a though the other evening about our holiday in 2017 with the Camera Club to Guernsey. While we were there we visited some World War II German Structures plus other structures. I found the images I was thinking about and converted them to Monochrome and gave them a 'strong gritty' feel. I personally quite pleased with the results. (The WWII Structure is called Fort Hommet, The others (except one) are from Fort Grey a Martello Tower, built in about 1804)

For the Love of Concrete - An Abstract View on Dovercourt Skateboard Park

A few days ago I spent a great weekend in Dovercourt and Harwich with a few members of the Cambridge Camera Club. As we left the hotel we decided to visit the Dovercourt Skateboard Park. 

Jonathan and I have a love of concrete so it was an obvious choice. Ann too was with us and it was her that first got me into concrete.

Being early Sunday Morning we thought it may be clear of skateboarders and we were not disappointed. 

These images are looking at the detail in some parts of the facility and I consider them abstract.