Mother Thames bursts her banks after months of heavy rainfall… what a beautiful spectacle she offers, the wonder and grace of nature. .. a formidable force indeed.. Her strength inspires me and her beauty leaves me breathless.
It was a bitterly cold morning and i wasn’t going to go out. But i looked out of the window and saw the fantastic colours of the sunrise start to creep across the eastern sky – so i jumped on my bike and cycled as fast as i could, down to the quay, to take some photos. This shot is the rigging of some of the fleet of old sailing barges which are moored at Maldon quay.
This is a rusting barge on the Apalachicola River, Florida. It is full of wonderful rusty areas that make great photos using a macro lens. The barge is named Miss Morgan. /
Rust patterns on the side of an old barge. / Sold framed print privately (not through RB but was seen there) to a friend. /
I started this painting many years ago and never finished it. I’ve been working on it recently and here it is; hence the date 2008 on it. My wife and I and our children spent a happy afternoon at Stoke Bruerne and even went on one of the barges. We passed the famous barge used in the English children’s TV series Rosie and Jim, which sort of dates this painting. FEATURED IN FIRST THINGS GROUP – 14th September 2009
The bank of Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia. Whenever I dream about it, these are the colors I see, the cold air, and the frost. Everywhere. Everytime.
The River Wey Wisley!
This canal barge can be found in a man made loch on the Auchlochan Estate in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It can not go anywhere other than circle around the small loch, so in reality, it is an art object. Auchlochan is a pupose build retirement village and elderly care home. It has lovely gardens and several man made small lochs. Auchlochan means (the) ‘Field of the small loch’. The current lochs at Auchlochan are man made and no one knows where the original loch was. Some believe it was a reference to the River Nethan which meanders through the estate. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lanarkshire or you can look at all my HDR shots. Featured in : Country Bumpkin : 6 Oct 08
Taken 9th January 2009, in Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
Took this while out today at Foxton Locks it was / just starting to snow / Nikon D90 18-105mm lens
Each day’s a new adventure, / We don’t have to travel far – / If our hearts reach out to joy, / We can find it where we are. / Maybe in a tiny blossom, / Or snow falling from the sky, / For the world is full of wonder / If we look with open eyes. Taken Northant’s uk Jan 09 Nikon D90
Taken in Northampton yesterday / nikon D90
Northamptonshire uk…... / Nikon D90 / Wish I knew how to Iron the water smooth
My two boy’s Max & Dylan in my garden / waiting for me to throw / snowballs….they love it… / Nikon D90
Taken at Coton Manor Northants / D40x
A heavy fog descended over London on 23 December 2007. I headed down to the Grand Union Canal to see whether there were any opportunities and was happy to get several highly evocative images. This is one of them. Canon 10D / 1/6th sec @ f8.0 / 28-200mm @200mm / ISO 100
Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Ruins of a Huon Pine Barge ============================================== / Featured in the Top 10 of Rusty_Crusty_and_Falling_to_Bits / Challenge Nautical_relics ============================================== / The discovery of rich deposits of copper at Mt Lyell led to the establishment of the Mt Lyell Mining Company in 1892. / Teepookana was situated at the highest navigable point of the river, where the township acted as a port facility for the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and home to about 200 people, mostly railway workers. / Two steamers, the “Pioneer” and “Eagle”, and over a dozen barges, or “lighters”, plied the King River, carrying coal, passengers, goods and mail for shipment by rail to the copper mines, and copper for shipment from the Strahan port facilities. / Today, the ruins of two Huon pine “lighters” can be seen at the Fishermens Wharf, Strahan. Strahan, West Coast Tasmania, Australia. Canon PowerShot A650 IS Shutter Speed: 1/100sec / Aperture: F4.0 / ISO: 80
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This is the second version of the image that I submitted four days ago. As I mentioned in the description of version #1, there were chances that I would still want to improve on it. Well I was not really satisfied with it and gave it another go. The long crossing through adolescence and into adulthood is not always an easy one. For many young people, it often seems like a neverending path, flooded with tears, a river of dark and murky waters ... The model in this shot is Abi, my RB friend Shelly’s beautiful daughter who is 15. She was photographed by her very talented mom Work uploaded for a challenge in the Collaborations group. The challenge consisted in using one or both of the two / images on the left as a starting point to create something / new. monocotylidono Shelly Hiebert / I chose to use both images, but also to add a 3rd collaborator. Vikram Franklin has kindly accepted to let me use this photo of a boat, and I used a bit of sky to improve on the new version as well. / I also added some textures of my own, as described below: This bit of agitated water was used mostly over the path. I simply copied part of the water from the image below into a new document and distorted the perspective a bit. One of my bad shots of a river. Nice to recycle into a texture! / Here is another photo of mine used as a texture: I use this photo of the St-Lawrence river in the fog very often in my composites. This time, it was used in at least 7 layers with various blending modes and opacities. I thought that the sky needed something and a crying moon was ideal. I used a photo of Jade, my 14-year old niece, added tears of blood and spherized it to create a moon. Played with the sky and shifted the thinning clouds to place the moon in a better position. Finally, I added a sheer layer of moon glow. Featured in the group Images & Ideas on April 22, 2009 Featured in the Dream & Fantasy Art Group on April 25, 2009 Featured in the Collaborations Group on May 3, 2009 Featured in the group OLDER KIDS aged 8-16 on July 17, 2009 Featured in the Dream and Fantasy Art group on August 28, 2009 1st place winner in the Do me or Use me challenge of the Collaborations Group on April 30, 2009 Finished in 6th position of Top 10 in the Water challenge of the Dream and Fantasy Art group on August 28, 2009 / Here is version #1. Please click on the image to view the page /
The Orton Effect / /
Best Viewed Larger / Another one of the bridges over the canal at Hebden Bridge west Yorkshire UK / Canon EOS 400D
Rochester NY – Canal Ponds Park – August 23, 2009 Beautiful Blue and Yellow hues. Nikon D-60 55/200
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