Photos taken outside the Bristol Science Museum in 2011

Snow this morning and so I tried to capture it falling. I tried first straight and then I added flash. This had the effect of lighting the flakes near to the camera. In some cases they were so big and bright that it looked like a fault. These are untainted pictures.

Later in the day the weather changed so that we had lovely clouds and plenty of sun. Below is a photograph that was put through the kaleidoscope filter of a fence across the river Bourne [normally this river is dry here i.e. Newton Toney]. The water is the blue bits.

A Cottage and Fruit Flasks

We went into the city and en route went past this cottage that is being renovated but the state it is in has been so for a long time. This is two images stitched together using Cs3 Photomerge. This is a great improvement on previous panorama programmes from Adobe.
Then in what was in the window of a cafe that replaced the famous Beeches bookshop I attempted to photograph the big flasks. There are so many reflections that it is virtually impossible.

Three Photos and Seven Images

Only went into the back garden for todays images. I took 3 photos in all. Two of wet paving slabs and one of a rather dead bird feeding house. I then set off to show how wet these were and then go on to use various filters to "improve" them further. Well when all you have are rather dull images you have to try out something special.

This has Burnt Edges filter


This used Jig Saw Puzzle filter follwed by Mura Meister's Random (v-line) Spiral filter

This straightforward.


I applied the Cracks filter here.

Here I used Pixel Trash filter.


AND finally the Tiny Wet House. The small house that was only ever decoration. Birds disdained it totally and who can blame them?

Salisbury Saturday

On Saturday last we walked into the City via the Close as usual and did some shopping. This was mainly for food and drink for the RPS meeting that we have organized for Sunday.
Anyway we took some photos on my new camera a Canon 30D. Only the 10 to 20 mm zoom lens was used.