Canal Confusion in Cheshire and not a cat in sight.

The top image is a surreal version of the happenings on the Cheshire canal system.
A combination of 3 pictures blended together.

The middle image is another montage of two photos of the Anderton boat lift with a man for scale.

A rare sight of a lock-keeper

This image is an amalgam of three photos taken on Cheshire earlier this year. These were all canal based. So you can see the lock keeper opening the lock gate and the end elevation of a building by the lock and a bridge with some text painted thereon many years before. Also another image of a narrow boat that was passing through. Whether this type of montage is to your liking it is quite enjoyable making them. It may do well in camera club competitions but that is not paramount in my mind. That is the enjoyment of making an image that satisfies.

Orchid Mania?

Yesterday we had a little do for the members of our U3A Digital Imaging advanced class. We set up several places for them to take still lives. One of these was the orchid Sheila bought back in April and that has been flowering continuously ever since. Currently it has more flowers than ever. It is quite florifluous! Here are a couple of photos I took during that morning of the orchids close up. The arrangement had a big picture frame covered in white tissue paper set in front of a window - hence the white background to the pictures. Do click on the photos to get a larger view. This should reveal all the detail.

Slate Fantasies

These photos were taken in the Cwm Orthin [web site here] near to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The images have been modified using Photoshop using Selective Colour and some Curves Adjustment Layers

The inside wall of the barracks













Barracks with a fallen wall

















Another fallen slate wall now horizontal
Another web site with pictures can be found here

West Wales in late October 2007

Bryn Brith 383m
by
Lynnau Creggenen



A ruined chapel found on the slopes of Cader Idris.
Taken in Infra Red on a Sony DSC F828 camera

Iron Handle as found somewhere in Cheshire. This has had other images put on top and blended in to give a slightly mysterious appearance. Well I think so.

A detail of a limestone pavement. This was found in Yorkshire in September.

The Blue Maze

I spotted this boy playing with this water maze at the Anderton Lift complex in Cheshire.
Local Bluebell woods. Here I have tried to bring out the young beech tree and suppress the brilliance of the flowers.
Here is a tiny snail investigating our hosta leaves yesterday morning. Note the dew. Taken with the Sony F828 and hand held.
A tulip in our front garden earlier this year.
I hope this mixture is of interest.