Showing posts with label Shropshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shropshire. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Day 3 Shropshire - Powis Castle - Holga Fun Lens


I decided not to walk down into the garden area with Sue, Jane and Ann and stayed up at the castle. I had my Holga Fun Lens with me and decided to have another play with it. The Holga is a cheap 'Lo-fi' simple meniscus plastic lens which gives severe vignetting, soft focus, blur, light leaks  and low contrast. It is designed for DSLRs to mimic the old Holga medium format cameras. This is not the first post I have done with this lens. I decided now that you cannot really crop the images once they are taken as the vignetting 'looks wrong. I have played with the colouration by split toning in Adobe Lightroom on a few images.












Monday, 27 February 2017

Day 3 Shropshire - Powis Castle, Welshpool, Wales

Looking back at the blogs from our Shropshire Holiday with Jane and Ann I should have called it Wales not Shropshire as most of the places we visited are in Wales. So, Day 3 we visited another National Trust Site, Powis Castle.




















Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Day 1 Shropshire - We Stopped at a Pond

Driving back to Shrewsbury Jane took us to a pond. Beautiful horses and a lovely evening.













Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Day 1 Shropshire - Snailbeach Lead Mine

We decided to go for a late afternoon drive to Snailbeach Lead Mine. Apart from the four of us and a couple of others we had the place to ourselves.














Selfi  :)








Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum

Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum Spent an hour in the garden this afternoon after shopping in Cambridge this morning (I bought a n...