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Post-industral countryside

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

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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.

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A different perspective on a sunset

Posted at 19:10:10 on Sun, March 16th 2008 by graham
in: d40x home photography sunset three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 wall

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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.

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The Stately Gentlebird

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

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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.

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The long and winding road

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

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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.

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Say what now?

Posted at 22:42:58 on Tue, January 15th 2008 by graham
in: autoportrait d40x home outtakes photography portrait selfportrait sigma30mm silliness three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

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Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 14

I got a new toy today, a Sigma 30mm/1.4 EX DC HSM lens. Very nice. Very good for portrait work. Heavier than expected.

Being alone in the house with no other subjects I decided to muck around a bit with it. This was an out-take from a set that never quite worked. I just like the expression.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.