Misty Afternoon

Taken about half an hour after the line of trees I posted yesterday, and a half a mile further west, near the very start of the Mendip Hills. After crossing the syle, the footpath plunges down the slope to the village of Bleadon hidden below.

Across the flood plain of the River Axe, in the middle distance, is an outlier of the Mendips called Brent Knoll. This hill should be instantly recognisable to anyone who has drvien down the M5 to Bridgwater, Taunton and all points south-west.

K100 with Hanimex 35mm held, inadvisably, above my head to get the correct angle of view.

I think a far better, more interesting shot than yesterday's, despite the atmospherics...

Best wishes,

Andrew

Misty Afternoon: a Path Not Taken

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Another lovely shot, Andrew. Less bleak than your other series but still excellent. Tip to others... click through to the larger size which is better than the reduced-sized image here.

Thanks Kris,

I do like pleasant, pictorial pictures, it's just that somehow I'm drawn to the dark side. It's often more interesting! Bit like the poetry I used to write, and my unpublished novels...

Is there something I'm doing wrong when transferring photographs from Photoshop to Photobucket to here.

Obviously having taken the time to shoot and process the pictures (what drudgery!) I want to show them in their best light.

Regards,

Andrew

P.S. Excellent tip for Emma to visit Wroxeter: I haven't been there for so many years it had slipped my mind. Very atmospheric...all those little shops and the huge (by Romano-British standards) wall.

I think it is the fact that the site resizes your images for you to show them on here. I prefer to upload an 800px wide image to flickr so that the site doesn't resize them.

Best wishes, Kris.

The site is expecting images 800 pixels wide, as per the guidelines on posting. If you do this you will get the best result. I have noticed a reduction in quality with some images where the forum software has to do the resizing.

Thank you Kris and John,

I'll make sure I produce an 800 pixels wide copy of photos in Photoshop before sending it to Photobucket.

Something else I've learnt today!

Regards,

Andrew

I wonder if this looks better...
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Regards,
A.

Nice shot.
The last one is slightly sharper but I like the bigger version of the first one

Thanks Stefan,

You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time but you can't...

Heard that one?

Regards,

Andrew

I thought I recognised that hill
Lovely image Andrew, the tones have an almost 70s feel to them (if there is such a thing).

Thanks Huw,

Amazingly the M5 cuts across the picture on the left, can't think how it's so invisible.

Now you mention it, the colours are a bit 70s: it's all those yellow and brown interiors and flaired trousers we grew up with, well I did, you were probably much too young! I could market the PP technique (if I could remember it), under the label "slightly past its shelf-life Kodakcolor printed at your local chemist by someone called Reg."

Best wishes,

Andrew

You flatter me Andrew, I'm feeling younger as I read your post

but sadly I remember the 70s (and before) very well.... my teenage years

The 70s, I think I read about them in a book once

Just kidding guys!

Another lovely shot by the way Andrew, you're like a production line of great photographs.

Thanks, Robbie,

A very generous thing to say. I'm grateful for your kind appreciation.

Hmm. The decade that time forgot...unfortunately I can't. (Some nice summers, but those ties, those ties and the music...)

Best wishes,

Andrew

The 70`s ???????

What about the 50s ? Kodak,Ilford,Brownies - Reg`s dad used to develop and print my wobbly b/w shots at the chemist - still got some somewhere too..............!

Tony