Merry New Year any blog roamers, Google image stumblers and the odd follower!
It's 2016 and another fresh year to strive for better and brighter things.
New years resolution - take more photos .. blah blah blah, I say it every year, lets see if it comes true this year!
Starting off with a rainy wander around Oxford at the weekend. Not really conducive to great photos, but I confess to being fairly desperate to poke my shutter button as much as I could get away with, just to make sure I could remember how to press it!
I did get (finally) a 100mm filter holder and 82mm adaptor ring for Christmas, so no more hand holding my ND grad filters! Hopefully I will put these to good use in the Lake District next week.
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| Trinity college - Oxford University (or part of anyway) ISO160, 16mm, f/4, 1/30s, -0.7ev, levels & crop Bit of an awkward crop, but I didn't shoot wide enough to crop square unfortunately. Rainy skies taken advantage of. |
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| Christchurch - Oxford University ISO1600, 16mm, f/2.8, 1/40s, -1ev, selective levels & curves, noise reduction Favourite shot of the trip, took quite a while for a gap in the flurry of visiting tourists. |
Stained glass window of St Michael slaying the dragon, obviously not afraid to trespass on Georges usual patch. Stunning work (the window, not my photography). Plenty of Lightroom lens correction to get this straight and level.
A carved winged skull memorial on the wall of Oxford cathedral, usually carved to remind the living of our mortality and that our time on Earth is fleeting. Occasionally portrayed as a flying hourglass.
The bottom two are just door arch carvings outside the Bodliean Library. I just liked their brilliantly captured expressions and the diffuse light on them late in the day was pretty flattering too.
