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)

Guernsey 17 - German Military Underground Hospital

German Military Underground Hospital.

This is the largest remaining structure from the Occupation in the Channel Islands. Almost invisible from the surface the tunnel complex covers 7000 square metres. It was started in the winter of 1940, the first year of the Channel Island Occupation.

It was dug out by slave labour from France, Spain and other Allied forces. It took nearly 4 years to complete and work stopped just after D Day (June 1944). The tunnels where used to store animation and it was only used as a hospital for a few months after D Day. They found the damp conditions and lack of light for the patients not good for recovery.

The area was huge and we spent the majority of the afternoon there. It was cold and wet - but good photographic fun.

Guernsey 16 - Les Vardes Quarry Nature Walk

We met up with the Guernsey Camera Clubs at a Quarry operated by Ronez. In 2015 the company created a short 50 minute nature walk around the perimeter of their quarry. Being me I was more interested in the quarry itself rather than the nature around it !!

Full marks to Ronez for this initiative. The Guernsey Walker web site details this walk here