Tag: Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
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Monochrome Madness 221
My entry for the Monochrome Madness Challenge 221 curated by Leanne Cole. The photograph is of a rose growing within the gardens at Riverhill Himalayan Gardens in Kent.
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Yosemite National Park
I can’t believe it is over three years since we went to Yosemite National Park… And boy was we in for a marvellous surprise. The landscape is beautiful and the River Merced as it flows through Yosemite is purely enchanting. I started out with an image with a few basic Lightroom Adjustments And then processed […]
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Rochester Cathedral Catalpa Tree
Since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and living in Rochester, I can remember this tree… As we walked through the Vines in Rochester heading towards the Castle we would stop off and play around this wonderful. The Catalpa Tree (American Indian Bean Tree) was planted outside Rochester Cathedral was planted over 150 […]
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Ooh, Shiny! WordPress Photo Challenge
The WordPress challenge this week is called Ooh, Shiny! and it asks what distracts you? For me it has to been raindrops on petals.. and how they glisten as the sun’s rays touches them. Roses are a distraction for me anyway, as they are one of my favourite flowers. And if I see a rose […]
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Strolling around Rochester – Street Photography
Over the weekend at Rochester in Kent was the Medieval Merriment Festival which was held in the Castle Gardens, not far from the High Street in Rochester. With Knights in armour, and period traders, this event gave me the perfect opportunity to practice my Street Photography. And because there were tourists there I didn’t […]
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Bridge WordPress Photo Challenge
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge theme is called Bridge. WordPress ask you to post a photograph of a bridge. To me, a bridge is something that takes you from one place to another. Whether it be a void, a river, a road, or a walkway. And for this week’s subject I decided to use a […]
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Delta WordPress Photo Challenge
Well I am still trying to catch up and last week’s WordPress Photo Challenge called Delta and WordPress asks you to share a picture that symbolizes transitions, change, and the passing of time. For me there is nothing up change going on with our coastlines here in the UK. What with coastal erosion and rock […]
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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Heritage
It is time again for the weekly WordPress Photo Challenge and this week’s theme is Heritage. Here in the UK we are steeped with Heritage especially along our shores and waterways. A lot of our castles are now owned and maintained by Scottish Heritage and English Heritage with a few being owned by the […]
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When time is of the essence – Rochester Castle
What with Easter just being around the corner and a lot of things to do… today’s photograph is one I took on a windy cold spring evening at Rochester Castle in March 2017. After a bit of manipulation in Photoshop to remove a litter bin and a flagpole without a flag… here is my quick […]
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Topaz Remask… just can’t believe it.
Now I love Lightroom and the majority of my work’s carried out in Lightroom. However, Lightroom does have its limitations and one of those limitations is that you can’t work with layers or add textures to your images. So Photoshop is my number photo editing software that I turn to when adding textures. But what I […]
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Security of the moat at Leeds Castle near Maidstone
I really can’t get my head around the date change of the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge… anyway here is my entry for this weeks challenge Security. The above photograph was taken at Leeds Castle back in September 2016 and shows the security of the moat in protecting the castle from invasion.