A Quick Word From Yours Truly


Hi, welcome to PJ's blog.

If you've checked out the "About Me" bit you'll see I'm a keen amateur photographer who enjoys all things digital. I mostly like photographing plants and landscapes as they are easy targets ;-) I used to work in Software which sounds more exciting than it is but am now officially a Snr. Project Planner having changed jobs after almost 25yrs in Software. I sometimes wish I could work in photography but that would probably become boring if I did it day in and day out. I used to sponsor a wolf called Luna until she sadly passed away, and love all things "wolfy". Anyhow enjoy the blog and hopefully I'll manage to keep it up to date with what I've been doing and my favourite things!

PJ

Sunday 30 August 2020

Coney Banks!

So, having had another dry day today, Sunday, Tedster and I set out again for the Coney Banks to get some fresh air. Not that I wanted to be going too far anyway and especially not by bus given they are not very good on a Sunday and probably even less so with Covid-19 and mask wearing, the Coney Banks has become a favourite place since we can't travel too far most of the time. Like our local fields the mowers have been round and cut all the long grass so it looks quite different now from the long wild grass and flowers areas that were there in the height of the summer months. Still we clocked up just over 9000 steps so not bad considering I'm not getting out every day now for the walk into work and not even after work sometimes if the weather is bad. Which it has been over the weekend so far. In fact indoors has felt chilly enough to pop the heating on this morning just to take the edge off the place! And as I'm the one paying the bills I don't feel the least bit guilty over this ;-) Took the M5 along with its 15-45mm kit lens, ran the images through LR when I got home and been experimenting with the Auto Tone - which works quite well most of the time, and also split toning in the form of a type of cinematic look. Using blues for the highlights and oranges for the shadows. It's very subtle and I think some investigation on Google or YouTube is in order, but I quite like the consistency it gives one's images.
 

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