Four for the price of 1!

Now Monday is a work day for me, so ordinarily I would just be sitting at the PC answering e-mails and going through the usual daily grind. However, the thought of playing with the camera searching for inspiration amongst publisher queries and author complaints drove me out of the house. I had a meeting to go to anyway so en route stopped at the Bladon Gate of Blenheim.

Really I wanted to try out perspective, moving me around not the just the camera, look at composition and generally play around. My most significant lesson, and a hard one learnt at that, was not to put the lens cap in my back pocket when I am kneeling down as it will pop out when I stand up and I will lose it.

So what did I achieve.... four okay-ish pictures, the first looking up trying to encapsulate the colours and structures of the trees, the second one I aimed for more of a mood shot with some help from Picnik back home, I like the way the path just tilts at the end - again my positioning as it isn't steep in anyway. The third I just wanted a general landscape shot, the colours in the foreground richer than the sky (have purchased a polarizer to work on the sky in future!) Finally a cloud, a bog standard nimbus, but the contrast between cloud and sky was quite pronouced and with a bit of a Picnik added an ecclesiastical finish!