• Winter Pictures

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:26 am**

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Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:33 am**

Good one that Caernarfon, dramatic with nice perspective but do the telegraph wires spoil/enhance the picture?

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:38 am**

It's one of those things where do you try to get a completely uninterrupted view of the landscape or do you incorporate the "ugly" technology into the landscape.

This is an area where you have beautiful views but huge derelict slate quarries.

After a while you stop seeing the "ugly".

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:39 am**

Excellent photo Moody with a promise of sunshine.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:57 pm**

Who needs to go to Iceland for the northern lights...

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 7:07 pm**

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Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:13 pm**

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Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:16 pm**

My back garden February 2010.........

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:55 pm**

Two can play at that game, BINT !!

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:24 am**

Really interesting shot Caernarfon_claret.

I think the way the telegraph wires appear to dissect the
landscape draws you into the shot - almost to double check.
It's real but unreal. Almost as if it could be a piece of cracked glass.
The fence draws you in too.

Assume it was morning?
Curious to know what camera you took it on or was it a phone?

Forgive my ignorance but how do you like a post?

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:27 am**

Sorry I've just noticed the like button.
Does it always appear?

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:14 am**

Amazing fight between two marsh harriers at dusk.

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Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:33 pm**

jurek wrote:Really interesting shot Caernarfon_claret.

I think the way the telegraph wires appear to dissect the
landscape draws you into the shot - almost to double check.
It's real but unreal. Almost as if it could be a piece of cracked glass.
The fence draws you in too.

Assume it was morning?
Curious to know what camera you took it on or was it a phone?

Forgive my ignorance but how do you like a post?

In this case a phone

Sony Xperia

Tend to use my Canon EOS 100D at same time.

Often use camera for telephoto and phone for wide angle.

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:35 pm**

With my phone use open camera app.

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:48 pm**

Mynydd Tal-y-Mignedd as seen from my bedroom window.

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Using Canon EOS 100D with telephoto lens

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:06 am**

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Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:08 pm**

In all its glory...

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:07 pm**

Just been out for a Christmas lunch with some fellow Clarets and this was the view we had looking through the window by our table.

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Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:42 pm**

CC the top photo is also very interesting because the digital camera has done something to the 'lines.' Unless you've messed with the picture, there's shading and light effects both above and below the lines that don't tally with what is 'under/over' in the picture.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:54 pm**

Pstotto wrote:CC the top photo is also very interesting because the digital camera has done something to the 'lines.' Unless you've messed with the picture, there's shading and light effects both above and below the lines that don't tally with what is 'under/over' in the picture.

I always mess with pictures, can't help it.

Might have been done by using dro (Dynamic Range Optimization) when taking the picture or in snapseed app where I altered one or two things. Probably a combination of the two)

Well spotted.

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Image with just DRO

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:06 pm**

It's interesting to see both. The top picture is probably more realistic (apart from the above/below line stuff,) I mean how often does a picture fail to capture the full experience? I think a lot of it has to do with how much information and light from ones' peripheral vision actually affects what we see/fixate on, that a camera won't pick up.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:22 pm**

Pstotto wrote:It's interesting to see both. The top picture is probably more realistic (apart from the above/below line stuff,) I mean how often does a picture fail to capture the full experience? I think a lot of it has to do with how much information and light from ones' peripheral vision actually affects what we see/fixate on, that a camera won't pick up.

The edits I usually do ( when using snapseed) - Natural HDR, Glamour Glow, Auto Brightness, Sharpness, Selective (increasing structure in select areas - the eyes of an animal - dark areas - without adding too much grain.)

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:24 pm**

jurek wrote:Sorry I've just noticed the like button.
Does it always appear?

You have to be logged on for it to show I think

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:27 pm**

Now for something completely different...

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Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:51 pm**

A couple of Winter visitors to the UK and one of our own most beautiful birds that isn't too common anymore.

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Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:06 pm**

All very similar as it's the view from my bedroom window.

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Edited (snapseed)

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Original (RAW converted to jpg) Canon EOS 100D

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:12 pm**

That's scary that picture. There's a wall like that at Tignes. One is expected to ski down it. It's called 'the widow maker.' I erred on the side of caution and left it.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:32 pm**

The summit to the right as you look is Mynydd Tal-y-Mignedd with Trum y Ddysgl to the left.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:34 pm**

i was expecting a picture of bernie winters

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:45 pm**

With Snorbitz...

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:25 pm**

Turf Moor Pano by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:26 pm**

Pendle Hill being hit by sunrise by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:28 pm**

ALP wrote:Pendle Hill being hit by sunrise by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

Wow thats stunning. What time was that.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:33 pm**

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Wow thats stunning. What time was that.

Thank you, it was about 8:20 this morning, and bloody cold too

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:39 pm**

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:44 pm**

"Wow thats stunning."

Stunning indeed.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:48 pm**

ALP wrote:Thank you, it was about 8:20 this morning, and bloody cold too

I bet. Ive one from later than that and i bet it was tropical in comparison

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:01 pm**

It was chilly out on the tops today, but well worth it by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:38 pm**

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Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:51 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:20 pm**

FactualFrank wrote:

Courtesy Thomas Kinkade, painter of light

Yes, Frank, it is a winter picture, no arguments there; not quite what we were expecting

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:23 pm**

Don't worry Spades, I never suggested I'd took the photo

I'd love to know where it is though.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:29 pm**

FactualFrank wrote:Don't worry Spades, I never suggested I'd took the photo

I'd love to know where it is though.

I think many of his paintings are from his imagination. Google Images 'Thomas Kinkade painter of light.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:30 pm**

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These were taken in March but hoping to go there tomorrow - should be covered in snow

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:37 pm**

A winter warmer, tropical conditions at the turf and a new pope announced...

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:41 pm**

cricketfieldclarets wrote:A winter warmer, tropical conditions at the turf and a new pope announced...

Flip the first photo and it looks like the UK.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:05 pm**

spadesclaret wrote:Courtesy Thomas Kinkade, painter of light

Yes, Frank, it is a winter picture, no arguments there; not quite what we were expecting

Very Christmas cardy that picture.

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:24 am**

Great minds think alike! ?

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:33 am**

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:37 am**

Gerry Hattrick wrote:Great minds think alike! ?

I seen that yesterday and before..there's a bit of divine intervention going on at the moment and someone's shining down on Burnley and in the middle Nick Pope.

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