Photography Thread

briantrumpet

masjer said:

That window and shutters has some nice French rustic charm.

I took a wider shot too, but homed in, as it was pretty. Am slightly annoyed I should have got a little more at the top of the photo - looks slightly cut off.

masjer

Beautiful still evening, hardly a breath of wind for a change. Edit: Cropped some of the dark rock.

rjsterry

This chap conveniently perched on my kitchen window.

briantrumpet

I got myself to this angle to camouflage the street signage, and only realised later what good angle I ended up on the silly house. It's a nuts place anyway.

Pross

rjsterry said:

This chap conveniently perched on my kitchen window.

Your kitchen seems very high up!

briantrumpet

This chap/ess took a liking to my arm. The eye is amazing.

masjer

I don't think this builder went to drystone walling college. Anyway, got harassed by hordes of horseflies, but beat the rain.

briantrumpet

Blimey.

briantrumpet

I hate horseflies. By the time you realise they are trying to eat you, it's too late.

masjer

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

Weirdly, that was the opposite direction from the sun. Lasted but a few minutes, then twas gone. It's Vercors, which would normally be as damp as a damp thing even in the summer (its weather is like Dartmoor's: mostly wet), but this year it's not looking well, so I'd not rule our fire up there at present. The beech trees are already dropping their leaves.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

Weirdly, that was the opposite direction from the sun. Lasted but a few minutes, then twas gone. It's Vercors, which would normally be as damp as a damp thing even in the summer (its weather is like Dartmoor's: mostly wet), but this year it's not looking well, so I'd not rule our fire up there at present. The beech trees are already dropping their leaves.

Eek, changes in weather patterns across the globe, records getting broken everywhere you look and the BBC weathermen are getting abuse for tying it to climate change.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

Weirdly, that was the opposite direction from the sun. Lasted but a few minutes, then twas gone. It's Vercors, which would normally be as damp as a damp thing even in the summer (its weather is like Dartmoor's: mostly wet), but this year it's not looking well, so I'd not rule our fire up there at present. The beech trees are already dropping their leaves.

Eek, changes in weather patterns across the globe, records getting broken everywhere you look and the BBC weathermen are getting abuse for tying it to climate change.

It'll probably make up for it in massive autumnal storms, washing half the mountain down the valley. To be fair, even in a normal summer it's hot and dry here, and some of the rivers disappear in places (limestone, and all that), but everywhere there are obvious signs of drought stress. I'm very glad I'm not further south in Provence or similar, as that will be even worse. A lot of assumptions about the future could literally go up in smoke, sooner than people think. Scary.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

Weirdly, that was the opposite direction from the sun. Lasted but a few minutes, then twas gone. It's Vercors, which would normally be as damp as a damp thing even in the summer (its weather is like Dartmoor's: mostly wet), but this year it's not looking well, so I'd not rule our fire up there at present. The beech trees are already dropping their leaves.

Eek, changes in weather patterns across the globe, records getting broken everywhere you look and the BBC weathermen are getting abuse for tying it to climate change.

. A lot of assumptions about the future could literally go up in smoke, sooner than people think. Scary.

Sadly, I'm thinking the same way as you.

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

I hope that's a sunset and not encroaching forest fires.
Nice, very dramatic!

Those pesky horseflies penetrate clothing, even jeans.

Weirdly, that was the opposite direction from the sun...

People quite often miss the best part of a sunrise/sunset by looking in the wrong direction, or arriving too late/leaving too early.
If photography has taught me anything it is to look all around me.

rjsterry

Pross said:

rjsterry said:

This chap conveniently perched on my kitchen window.

Your kitchen seems very high up!

It's a small tree. The white things are outdoor furniture.

pblakeney

Spotted from my "office" window. Isn't nature cute and cuddly?
(No need for a hi-res version)

masjer

This Ash was standing in a field all on its own. I could see the girth of its trunk from a distance, so checked it out. What a character!

briantrumpet

Wowsers. Never seen an ash like that. Hope it's resistant to die-back.

eric_draven

Bempton cliffs at Speeton

briantrumpet

I know that this one will display poorly here, but if you right-click on it and select to open in a new tab, it should give a reasonable taste of this rather good panorama. Worth the 3200m of climbing.

masjer

3200m or 10500ft in real money, good effort! Did you manage to get out early enough to avoid the midday furnace?

pblakeney

I will try to drip feed these......"try". 😉

The difference light makes to a scene.

masjer

Drip away.
I'll take the light in the bottom image. What a beautiful view to wake up to.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

3200m or 10500ft in real money, good effort! Did you manage to get out early enough to avoid the midday furnace?

Oops, tyop. 2300m. Still quite lumpy over the first 68 miles. Left at 7.15 to get up high into the forests while it was still cool, but was a bit furnacey (35C) when I came back down at noon, for the 90 minutes along the valley.

pblakeney

I won't miss that feeling of descending into a fan oven.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

I won't miss that feeling of descending into a fan oven.

Even though I'm pretty good with the heat, at the end of a long day in the mountains, that's not at all pleasant, and even worse if you haven't got proper cold water to drink whilst you get fan-blasted.

It's a bit more challenging on that front at the minute, as most of the regular water fountains have been turned off, so it's testing my memory of where the taps and natural 'sources' are. This was a splendid one of the latter, yesterday (when all my troubles were so far away).

rjsterry

rjsterry

The low cloud has now lifted but earlier it looked like this.

briantrumpet

Specially for @masjer - my new brake hoods in the wild.