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Calm

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Calm

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 146

Morecambe Bay at sunset.

The partner to this image.

The Gathering Storm

Posted at 20:30:37 on Tue, February 26th 2008 by graham
in: d40x heysham heyshamhead ocean photography rocks sea three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 weather

Graham Binns posted a photo:

The Gathering Storm

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 56

Not really happy with this; the sky at the left side of the image is blown and the rocks are too dark. It would've worked better had I had a 77mm grad ND filter handy, but I didn't.

Taken looking roughly Isle-of-Man-wards at Heysham head.

A Grave With a View

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A Grave With a View

Three Hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 25

I went a-roving today, armed with my D40x (I'm coveting a D300 but that can wait a while, I think) and my shiny new 10-20mm Sigma lens.

Heysham Head, where the ruins of St Patrick's Chapel stand, is one of those places where the bones of the Earth show through; bleak, wild and utterly beautiful, spoiled of course by the monsterous shap of Heysham nuclear power station in the background. The hollows in the rock are graves which are thought to date from the 11th century, hewn out of the stone.

This was taken at 10mm. I used the Gimp's nifty liquid rescale plugin to turn it into a panoramic-looking shot and tweaked the levels a bit to bring out the threatening colour in the clouds. The colour of the sea is actually pretty acurate, if a little darker than in reality. I also cloned out the bright red lifebelt stand that was sticking out like a very annoying sore thumb.

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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.

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