Currently, the 2023 Rugby World Cup is underway in France. The Scotland rugby team unfortunately came up against the impressive South Africa team in their first match and lost out despite playing really well. They’ll get a couple of wins in their section but will need to beat Ireland on the 7th October to progress to the quarterfinals.
So, I thought this was a time to post a few rugby images, of which I now have many.
more imagesThis week I’m trying to pick out some of my all-time favourites in response to Tina’s Lens-Artists Challenge. And I should tell you why the are favourites.
I think in all of them I’ve felt I’ve managed to create something I was really pleased with. A number of them were surprises where a little drop of magic seemed to be caught. Like the bee on the globe flowers above, which I’d taken in quite low light and didn’t expect to draw anything out of the setting. And now it’s even the source material for the jazziBee logo.
more imagesThanks 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.
more imagesWhy do you choose to use monochrome? The chimpanzee is puzzled too. But more of him later……
So, as soon as I got to the hill, I looked at the sky and thought, ‘Black and white’. It’s just like that sometimes. Straight away you know that you feel a mono image should work and the drama of the sky was a decider here.
More monochrome imagesI thought I’d captured too much in this image and that focussing in on parts of the view might have been better. However, a bit of work to even out the exposure seemed to help. I was pleased with the way the sky came out and I like it enough to get it printed up. And it worked out as a mono which is good because it was pretty drab in colour.
Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE. This also gives you info on how to join in to the challenge.
One of my favourite mono images. It’s one of the many exotic windows at the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, showing a reflection of the Queen’s Gallery at Holyrood Palace.
Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE
These bollards are a security measure in front of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. Taken a number of years ago but I always liked this one.
It’s one of those photographs that you know is meant for a monochrome presentation.
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“Bringing them into this world wasn’t exactly easy. Remember, we had to start back at the end of winter. Well, that bit at least was fun. My bristling feather display was really something else, wasn’t it?
Continue reading “Work in Progress”Well, we haven’t been able to go off on holiday for a long time now (there’s just reasons for that – it can’t be helped). Most of my photos are taken within 25 miles of home. But even then I can still escape the norm for a while. This week a group of friends and myself took our cameras down to an old haunt on the Ayrshire coast – to the village of Dunure.
Continue reading “An Evening at the Coast”So here I am, back on-line again after a short illness – also recovered from the Euros!! – and things are about the same as they were before – feels restrictive despite recent changes. And so I’m grateful for Anne Saddler setting the Lens-Artists Challenge this week and her chosen topic, Black & White, is a favourite of mine. A subject I can get my teeth into.
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