Aiden's First Cricket Match

Aiden's First Cricket Match.

We drove over to Downham Market this evening to watch Aiden (Grandchild 4 of 9) play his first game of cricket. He joined the Ely City CC under 12's a few weeks ago and really loves it. 

This match was with Downham Stow. I think he was quite nervous before the game, quite naturally I think. 

He had quite a fan club on the sidelines as Nicki and family had come down to stay this weekend and decided to drive back after the game.

I am still not quite sure of the rules. It seems each team starts with 200 runs. They bat in pairs for a given number of innings

They score 'runs' but loose  five runs for 'being out'. They can gain runs if the bowler bowls a no ball ie wide.

The opposition, the home team,  batted first. Aiden was one of the bowlers and as a grandfather I was very impressed with his first go in a competition.

At the end of the innings Downham Stow had scored 250 so Ely had to score more then 50 to win. 

Aiden was in the first pair of batters and he scored 12 runs. A good first result I think

It was a close match but Ely won 256 to 250

Well done Ely and Well done Aiden.

I really enjoyed the experience and now looking forward to watching another match, by which time I may know the rules of the game. :)

 

Daisies

Daisy Daisy Give me Your Answer Do

I noticed that the daisies in our wildflower garden were looking quite beautiful. 

Impression of a Bluebell Wood

Impression of a Bluebell Wood

The weather stopped us getting to the bluebell woods last week and we knew it was getting late for them but we decided to go over the Lady's Wood Nature Reserve and see what they were like.

The bluebells had certainly 'gone over' but there was an impression of a blue carpet. I decided rather than take straight photos of the bluebells I would try some ICM techniques I had been thinking about.  I have been reading a book by Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant called 'Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image' dating from 2001. 

They where using film cameras and building up multiple exposure similar to the 'Additive' mode on my Canon. They were shooting blind and working out the exposure compensation needed. They built up the ICM effects by taking the same camera position / movement for a few images and then adding another effect.

Certainly building on the knowledge I gained from Doug Chinnery and Velda Bailey on their courses last year.

The saying 'Every day in every way I get a little bit better' comes to mind.

Vase and Dying Flower Study

Spent a couple of hours just playing with a vase of dying flowers the other day and then taking just one design into photoshop to see what different colour combinations I could get. I was looking for the resulting image to be fundamentally based on  two main colours. I found four I like and ten popped them into a panel. The first five images here are the result. Not what you would call subtle colours. 

I then started playing with some of the other images from the session with some pleasing results. 

It’s funny how sometimes you set yourself a mini project in a single session and struggle to find an acceptable result and then other times, like this you find quite a few.

All images here started as in-camera multiple exposure (mostly in dark mode if I remember right) and then  work in Lightroom. All images then developed in multiple layers in Photoshop, including the blending of two or more images.