I Take my Eldest Daughter to Toft Graveyard

 The other Friday evening I took my eldest daughter, Zoe, to a graveyard in Toft. We met up with members of the Cambridge Camera Club Wednesday Workshop Special Interest Group (I know it was not a Wednesday :). - The previous Wednesday we had a practical talk led by Ian Wilson on Flash Photography. This meet up was an opportunity to put in practice what we had been show.

At these Workshops I do not normally get an opportunity to take photos myself, preferring to wonder round and make sure others are okay.

This time I did pop of a few photos as we were setting up. 

Zoe is an enthusiastic belly dancer and she dressed in her gothic clothes and bought with her whit and black angle wings. She loves performing and got stuck into it as soon as we arrived.

Foggy Toft Road

Foggy morning travelling to Toft in early January. I have often been attracted to the trees and the bend in the road just as you get to the village and as I was a bit early I decided to stop and take some photos. I had my Sony RX100 with me. As luck would have it a person on a bike came down the road to add  'people' interest. 

Fast forward to the end of the month, two sources of photographic inspiration (*) promoted me to convert the photos to a high contrast monochrome effect. I like the results, but feel that there is defiantly more work to get the feel I am looking for.

(*) Note the two sources of inspiration were (1) A talk given to the Cambridge Camera Club by one of our members entitled 'The Monochrome Effect by Jayne Odell ARPS', and (2) My visit to the Tate Modern in London to see the 'Radical Eye Exhibition' which is a display of photographs collected by Sir Elton John from about 1910 to 1950. A truly remarkable collection and stunning photographs.