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Looking Up, Looking Down

The world looks a bit different depending on your viewpoint. In taking photographs I’ve always been encouraged to shoot from various angles as a slight change can substantially alter and perhaps improve the resulting photograph…. especially true when using a wide angle lens. And we know sometimes we should get down on our knees to take a photo, but then, for me, it seems to be getting harder to get back up again.

So for this challenge, I want to go for the extremes of Looking Up, and Looking Down, to show the effects of what you can capture at these angles and get a different perspective on our view of the world.

Autumn Colours

I’ve been out and about a bit this autumn. Storm Babet took a lot of leaves off the trees early but even today some of the colours are amazing.

A short gallery follows:-

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Moon Watch

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #30

And for Denzil’s challenge this time, the subject is the moon. Over recent years, I’ve made several attempts to photograph the moon and it’s been an interesting exercise.

One Small Spider

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #29

We’re not keen on spiders in our house. I don’t think I’ve photographed one before. But when I saw this in the sunlight and when the spider was quite small, I thought why not.

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Sea Calming

Lens-Artist Challenge #267 – Recharge

Thanks to Egidio for setting this week’s photo challenge. Egidio takes us out into the wild places of the US with his marvellous images illustrating the environments that recharge his batteries.

For myself nothing helps me reset more consistently than a trip down to the sea – just down to the Firth of Clyde. This involves a 20-30 minute drive depending on my chosen spot.

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Wild Animals

The first wild animal I thought of for this post was my daughter’s dog, Max. Now he is definitely a wild animal. However, I guess he doesn’t qualify for this post as he is technically a pet. And I don’t have masses of wild animal photographs but I’ve found a few of interest that I had almost forgotten that I had taken.

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Butterfly Collecting

I’ve just been reading in the BBC History magazine about a wealthy lady of the 17^th century, whose abusive and estranged husband successfully challenged her will following her decease. He claimed that she was not of sound mind when she left all her property to her cousin. Among the evidence he cited of her madness was that she was obsessed with the collection of butterflies and moths.

Footsteps in the Frost

Some more photographs taken during my recent walk along the river. The effect of the frost was quite amazing – created such a point in time – all melted away now.

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Favourite Images from 2020

A New Year! A fresh start! – Well, I feel it’ll take a bit longer but we can all hope for an improvement in our circumstances as 2021 progresses. I wish you all peace, prosperity and good health for the coming year. While the last year has been hard, I’m very clear that others have had a truly dreadful time and I feel I’ve been very lucky.

Swan Sculptures

My last post about the Long-tailed Duck, that unexpected visitor to our local park, led me to recall one of my earliest visits to the park pond with a decent DSLR camera.