Framedlight

I spent some time looking at the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. It was very crowded and a little hot while I was walking round, but it was extremely interesting and inspiring and she certainly was a free spirit, devoted to her work. when I had come out of the gallery I sat on a bench opposite the escalators. I had just bought a new 10 stop neutral density filter and wanted to try it out. So I took several multiple exposures of the people on the escalators and then moved out to the turbine hall to repeat the exercise. The filter was a fairly cheap SRB one, but I was very pleased with the lack of colour cast it provided. Not that that mattered for this type of picture as I usually alter the colours in them anyway.

I discovered a poppy field not too distant from my house and set out to photograph the flowers any which way. Some of the poppies, at the edge of the field were coming up between linseed which had flowered and gone to seed and was very yellow and bobbly. None of the linseed was in flower but I would like to go back again when it is out, although it may look rather garish. As you can see it was a cloudy day.  Here are some of the results. The end ones were taken using in-camera multiple exposure and some intentional camera movement. Please excuse the number of pictures, I am a lousy editor.

Walking on Rough Tor with Hettie, I mainly concentrated on 'normal' photography, but here are three pictures taken using intentional camera movement and multiple exposure techniques..

While I was on Bodmin Moor I also tried to make some intentional camera movement and multiple exposure photographs, using a neutral density filter to slow my shutter speed down.

Hettie and I were going to have another day at the coast. Again the weather was spotless, with hardly a cloud in the sky. I had been very impressed with the view over Porthcothan bay which we had seen on our first day in Cornwall, so we drove down the narrow lanes and parked up at the head of the beach. We picked our way over a short dune section onto the sand as the original path and steps had disappeared, swept away by winter storms.  As always the surf was pounding giving quite a good wave display over the rocks and small islands at the mouth of the bay. I rather threw in the towel with the high contrast light, put on a polariser and converted the photos to monochrome! We spent a little time on this beach and then drove south to the National Trust parking area for Pentire Farm. From here we walked down the coast path onto Park Head which juts out just north of Bedruthan Steps and we sauntered to the end of the headland. I managed to lose the dog and ...