Sky Panel

 Sky Panel

Joined in on an excellent weekly on-line talk by the ‘MyPhotoClub’ last night. The speaker this week was Eileen Rafferty and she was talking about abstract photography and its roots in photographic history dating back to the 1800’s when photography started with  Niépce, Daguerre and Fox Talbot.

One of the people she mentioned was Alfred Stieglitz who was instrumental in developing photography as an art form. He created a series of cloud photographs circa 1925-34 which he called  ‘Equivalents in Photography’. They were  intended to free the subject matter from literal interpretation and hence abstract photography as works of art.

After lunch today I looked out the window and saw quite a nice sky and I thought I would like to reproduce my own version. Sounds grand but it did keep me off the street for a couple of hours :)

I also created a mono version

And the images

Three

 

Three. 

1. Christmas Cards are still arriving
2. A New Year’s resolutions of mine is ’declutter and reorganise’. So today I brought together in one place all my Beatle paraphernalia. 
3. Started  Christmas Jigsaw Present. Question,  “if we do not finish and put away by 12th night does it mean that it has to stay out till next Christmas”?
   

Dorset with CCC Day 6 - 16th June - A Day out with Phil

 Dorset with CCC Day 6 - 16th June - A Day out with Phil

So our day started in Bridport. A nice Dorset Village. We had a wander round and investigated the town. We decided move on to West Bay  before lunch. The afternoon was spent looking around this seaside town.

During the day e visited two churches with approx 700 Years Difference. This story and the diptych was my daily journal photo that you may have seen before.

The story that accompanied the two church's  is repeated here along with the diptych.

Phil and I did not go with the other members of the Cambridge Camera Club today to the Swanage area, instead we traveled to Bridport and the West Bay area (allegedly in search of cake :)

During our travels we visited two churches. St Mary's in Bridport. Built early 13th Century (ie after 1201) on the site of a previous Saxon church. I spoke with two very nice ladies in the church and they explained a lot about the church and its community. 

Phil and I then traveled to West Bay. Famous of recent years as the location for the filming of the crime drama Brordchurch.

After a walk around West Bay and an Ice Cream, Note a Herring Gull pinched Phil’s ice cream :( but they did not get mine :), We visited St Johns Church. This was built in the 1930's and dedicated in 1939 as a 'chapel of ease'. This is a church building other than a Parish Church so people who cannot get to the Parish Church can attend.

Note - we are being fed so well at the accommodation we are staying at neither of us had cake.

The last two pictures were taken back at the place we were staying. The second from last is Ann who organised the trip with her husband my friend Phil. 

The last photo taken a few minutes later and signifies the end of our trip with friends from the Cambridge Camera Club. Sue and left the rest a day early to visit our granddaughter Eloise in Swindon for her birthday - and yes there was cake

My daily Photo Journal or 'Blip'

St Mary's Bridport

St Johns West Bay

Ann and Phil

The end of the holiday

FortyFive

 FortyFive

Had a wander around the house just after Lunch with my camera looking for 'Lines created by shadow and light'. Popped a few off using in-camera multiple exposure and various white balance setting, all in light mode. 

My Plan was to create a triptych however I was surprised when I got them onto the computer that there were nine I actually liked enough to put into a panel. Only basic adjustments in Lightroom and then the panel created in Photoshop. I may well produce a / some triptychs too.

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