Photo taken in the garden on one of those rare sunny days here.

A slightly long walk away from the house I found these fields ripe.

I was out with the long lens one day and captured a few shots of the sheep and their pups who were in a field behind out vet.

Hello, this is my first proper new photo in ages!! Sorry for being away for so long. Just lack of time, lack of motivation and lack of access to Photoshop CS. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a few more done before my trial runs out in 12 days time.

This was taken in the fields near my house after a we got covered in snow (for the first time in years) in February 2009. We don’t get much snow here so I made the most of it and took lots of pics.

“Zimbabwe’s MDC party says it will carry out its own investigation into the cause of Friday’s crash in which Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan died. But officials have said nothing to suggest they suspect foul play. US embassy officials say the lorry which collided with Mr Tsvangirai’s car belonged to a partner organisation of the US government aid agency USAID. MDC general-secretary Tendai Biti paid tribute to Mrs Tsvangirai, calling her “a mother to us and to our struggle”. On Saturday afternoon, Mr Tsvangirai, 56, left the Harare clinic where he was treated for injuries sustained in the crash.”

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These chaps were so easy to photograph. As soon as I walked up to the canal near Tonbridge Castle they were everywhere. I was only there for a minute or two but got lots of photos.

I’ve given this one a comic feel with the help of a PS action.

To me this shot looks like it’s an HDR image but I can ensure you that it’s not and most of the processing was done in Camera Raw with some tweaking in Photoshop.

Shot taken with my Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens, which I’ve not used in ages!

A peony in the back garden. I’ve had a little play with the saturation.

]]> http://www.e-lusion.co.uk/blog/2009/02/22/peony/feed/ 2 http://www.e-lusion.co.uk/blog/2009/02/21/drops-leaf/ http://www.e-lusion.co.uk/blog/2009/02/21/drops-leaf/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:54:23 +0000 koltregaskes http://www.squashyfrog.com/?p=287 In a continuing effort to post something, anything here (instead of just leaving it to collect dust) I’m going to try and post a pic a day from my Flickr stream.  Nothing fancy, but please add your comments here and/or on Flickr.  I’d love to have any feedback on this and anything I post here, on Flickr as well as FriendFeed (which I’m trying to link to this blog as much as possible).  Today’s pic:

High contrast shoot of a water-covered leaf in the back garden.

Click on the image to go to the pic on Flickr.  There you can see the original plus comments already posted.

Dark and dirty (ie. the first photo) can be found here.