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Suspicion

Posted at 20:03:57 on Wed, May 06th 2009 | Comment on this post
Published in bird, chickens, d300, home, nikkor70200mm, photography

Whenever I see a chicken, I always think it's observing me with a deep-seated distrust that I'm in no position to allay¹.

This is Ethel, incidentally. She lives next door.

¹: Yes, I nicked this from Douglas Adam's excellent Last Chance to See.

Post-industral countryside

Posted at 23:43:59 on Fri, April 18th 2008 | Comment on this post
Published in accrington, belthorn, blackburn, d40x, grainroad, home, lancashire, landscape, oswaldtwistle, photography, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 109

Three East Lancashire towns: on the left, Blackburn, on the right, Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up, and Accrington.

Taken from the Grain Road at Belthorn, possibly the most exposed an inhospitable place in the whole of East Lancs, except for today.

I do accept, by the way, that this looks somewhat like a Windows XP desktop background. I apologise.

A different perspective on a sunset

Posted at 19:10:10 on Sun, March 16th 2008 | Comment on this post
Published in d40x, home, photography, sunset, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, wall

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 75

Snapped as the setting sun shone in through the bedroom window.

Yes, I know I'm well behind on posting these. I'll catch up soon.

The Stately Gentlebird

Posted at 23:07:37 on Wed, January 23rd 2008 | Comment on this post
Published in 200mm, animals, bird, d40x, eric, garden, home, pheasant, photography, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 22

This is Eric. Well, he's an Eric. Eric is the generic moniker for all the cock-pheasants (there's about five of them) that roam around our garden, apart from the black ones (of which there are two), which are called Ernie. Eric and Ernie. Geddit?

This isn't the most fantabulous photo ever, but with only a 200mm lens and no monopod it was the best I could do at very short notice. This is the only time that an Eric has let me get close enough to get a decent photo of him. Not that that's a reason to not invest in a 600mm lens at some point in the future...

Colours were tweaked slightly in the Gimp to remove a blueish hue. Also, the image was sharpened a little. Notice also the blackbird in the background trying to get out of frame and failing miserably.

The long and winding road

Posted at 17:15:39 on Thu, January 17th 2008 | Comment on this post
Published in colourised, d40x, gimpd, home, landscape, photography, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, weather, weirdcolouring

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 16

Actually it's pretty short as roads go, and is in fact the driveway leading up to our house, which is on an old farm site.

This was first time the rain let up today, so I went out with the 18-55mm lens (oh for a wider angle!) and an ND grad filter and snapped this.

Cropped (I really would like a wide angle lens so that I could get the feeling that I wanted; this was as close as I could manage) and colourised in the Gimp, but otherwise untouched.