Winter Pictures

[cricketfieldclarets]

Great minds think alike! ?

Wheres yer bovril?

[Hipper]

Is it a bird?

[Caernarfon_Claret]

This Morning

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[RalphCoatesComb]

Looks like everyone was taken with the Genie rising out of Turf Moor

[Caernarfon_Claret]

This morning a frozen victoria dock in Caernarfon

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[Masham Ale]

A few pics walking the dog today near Coventry

[Caernarfon_Claret]

This Afternoon

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[Masham Ale]

very moody skies Caernarfon

[JohnMac]

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[JohnMac]

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[dales_claret]

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[ALP]

Vaccary Wall & Snow by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

On my way to Winskill by Andy Pritchard, on Flickr

[Gerry Hattrick]

It’s a mystery to me Cricky!

I was stood outside the Turf with my steaming hot Bovril in my hand when I thought, ‘that’d make an interesting photo with the floodlight behind it’. So I took one.

When I looked at the piccy I’d sent to Winter Photos, there it was, - gone.
Perhaps it’s another of the unbelievable things happening at our club this season.

Anyway, hopefully it’s there this time.

Wheres yer bovril?

[morpheus2]

Me and mi Bovril

.....and me and mi youngest boy on top of Penyghent

[Lancasterclaret]

Ingelborough again, from the other side of where I live

[whiffa]

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Fantastic image, where was that taken from?

[morpheus2]

Ingelborough again, from the other side of where I live

Ingleborough has the most impressive prominence of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, especially from the Lune Valley side.

[Lancasterclaret]

Yeah, it dominates the valley so you can see it from all the way down it, and pretty much all the way down the Cumbrian Coast to Barrow

[Caernarfon_Claret]

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[cricketfieldclarets]

Me and mi Bovril

.....and me and mi youngest boy on top of Penyghent

Il be in the bob lord next...

[dales_claret]

Fantastic image, where was that taken from?

Thanks....It is on the track at the side of Black Moss lower res, Barley

[cricketfieldclarets]

Its grim up north

[cricketfieldclarets]

Brighton

[cricketfieldclarets]

St Pauls by day... and night! And The Shard

[HatfieldClaret]

When do touched up photographs cease being photography and become art ?

Not criticising; just asking.

Views ?

[Rowls]

When do touched up photographs cease being photography and become art ?

3pm

[HatfieldClaret]

Is that after a Gin ?

[Masham Ale]

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[Caernarfon_Claret]

When do touched up photographs cease being photography and become art ?

Not criticising; just asking.

Views ?

I think it depends if you are shooting in RAW where the image is not compressed and therefore you can alter a bit more of the basics - shadows, highlights, contrast.

Also if you are using a tripod and taking bracketed shots which you combine later it is often just the same as using a graduated ND filter.

Why bother shooting in black and white mode when you can do that in post.

A lot of these tools are just mimicking things you'd have done using filters and black and white film.

Exposure, contrast, brightness, saturation - all legitimate photography tools.

Effects tools obviously come under the art category, but then some effects done by pan zoom and other tricks whilst shooting are part of photography.

[cricketfieldclarets]

The thing is, no matter how much you edit a photo nothing can do justice to the real deal.

Some of my pictures above have been tweaked in a slight way, some havent. But none look as good as it did with the naked eye.

I saw some pictrues online of the isle of skye before I visited. And I couldnt believe the pictures and thought in reality it will be a disappointment. The truth is its an even more incredible place when you get there. The colours, the shapes and stuff - nothing like the pictures, in a good way!

[Caernarfon_Claret]

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Taken on my phone no editing but using open camera app HDR mode (3 photos different exposures)
Phone against window to avoid camera shake.

100% photo.

We get these amazing cloud invertions.

A really amazing one in the summer, but this today.

[Roosterbooster]

Snowdonia from across the Straits

[dandeclaret]

Red Squirrels at Snaizeholme, North Yorks National Park

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Red Squirrel - Snaizeholme, North Yorkshire Dales National Park by Dan Heap, on Flickr

Red Squirrel - Snaizeholme, North Yorkshire Dales National Park by Dan Heap, on Flickr

Red Squirrel - Snaizeholme, North Yorkshire Dales National Park by Dan Heap, on Flickr

[Wexford_Claret]

Walk near Keswick

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[spadesclaret]

Winter jewels

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[Dressinggown]

Windermere last weekend:



Some feathered friends:



However:




The lady in question had a large bag of birdseed and was promptly engulfed by winged animals. The large black raven-like bird in the photo pecked out one of her eyes and it appeared that she was having some sort of cardio crisis as I ran away at full speed. I wish her all the best and hope she returns to full health in the near future.