Taken on a recent family holiday to Cornwall.
This beach was a lucky find - we were just looking for sandy bits on the map because our eldest wanted to go to another beach before we returned home. This is a great location though - it has caves, great sand and a really dramatic rock structure at the entrance to the beach featuring enough rock pools to keep the kids entertained for hours (if the tide is out).
This shot was taken from one of the caves accessible at low tide on the south side of the beach.
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Posted in b&w, landscape.
Tagged with b&w, beach, cornwall, sea.
We spent ages trudging through the heather on Eyam Moor trying to find this stone circle, in the end we found it by accident just after we’d given up. The sun, which had popped out from behind the clouds a few times during the afternoon, made a brief appearance to light up the heather.
I should perhaps have taken some shots of the stones, but I got distracted by the light on this piece of grass.
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Tagged with b&w, grass, monochrome, moor, stones.
By Andy
December 16, 2009
This shot is was taken one lunch time in Autumn. I’d gone out a few days earlier in search of rich autumnal colours but I didn’t really see anything that I liked. When I found this scene I was intrigued by the light more than the colours and knew it could look really striking in black and white.
Unfortunately it was windy and the end result had some movement in, so I made a note to come back again when conditions were better.
This retaken effort was processed in exactly the same way as the original but fortunately none of the leaves are blurred 
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Posted in b&w, trees.
Tagged with b&w, fence, monochrome, path, trees, tunnel.
I’ve always loved this location, and have visited here with many friends over the years. There is nothing utterly fantastic about it but it’s a nice place to be with friends on a warm summer afternoon (or in this instance, totally alone on a warm summer evening)
There was once a small car park and a picnic area here but it has fallen into disrepair since the gate was permanently locked due to vandalism. The car park is now overgrown, in fact I was standing where it used to be when I took this shot, and I suspect dog walkers are now the only visitors rather than picnicking families.
Posted in b&w, landscape.
Tagged with alvecote, b&w, monochrome, priory, ruin.
Another old image that I was never entirely happy with. This was taken on chilly morning excursion out at Beacon Hill with Dan and was one of the few shots I got - the rest being spoilt by the lens misting up all the time.
Whilst I liked the original image at the time I thought the contrast could have been better.
For this newer version I went back to the original shots (3 exposures, each 2 stops apart) and reprocessed them in Photomatix. This resulting image was then desaturated and had contrast adjustments.
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Posted in b&w, hdr, landscape.
Tagged with b&w, barbed wire, beacon hill, frost, hdr, leicestershire, photomatix, trees, winter.
After six months of having a camera I decided it was about time I went through my previous shots and tidied them up, both in terms of organisation and correcting past mistakes. A couple of people commented on this image recently - I was really happy with it at the time but my preferences and skill have changed somewhat since taking it so it became the first one to have a bit of a facelift.
At the time it was taken I was interested in the effect it was possible to create with running water and Photomatix, and even though the shot was taken during the day I still managed to get managed to get a 2.5s exposure by choosing a shaded location and a small aperture.
The three bracketed shots (at 0.6s, 1/6s and 2.5s) were then combined in Photomatix and the resulting image was desaturated and had some contrast tweaks to enhance the molten glass look.
Posted in b&w, hdr, long exposures.
Tagged with b&w, birstalll, canon 450d, canon ef-s 18-55mm, hdr, leicestershire, photomatix, water, weir.
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