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By noon we had walked all the way around Tarn Hows, the light was too harsh and the area had filled up with people. We decamped to a cafe for lunch and then drove to the Lakeside car park in Keswick. We spent an hour or so here before moving to Castlerigg stone circle for dusk. We had intended to do the circle at dawn the next day but the weather forecast was not good. As it was afternoon there were more people there - basically a ring of photographers around the outside of the circle and a snake of others in and out of the stones taking selfies with their iPhones. All of the stone circle pictures apart from the first (24-70mm zoom) have been taken with a 70-200mm zoom lens on the Nikon D800e. The pictures from the lake have been taken using the 16-35mm zoom, or the 50mm f1.4 lens. Taken using pinhole lens Taken using pinhole and camera movement

At the beginning of November I went on a workshop with Doug Chinnery based in the Lake District. It was a great 2 days where I learnt some and was able to selfishly indulge my photography. There were only 4 of us, including Doug who gave us all masses of attention. The first day we met at the Tarn Hows car park at 6.00am. I had booked into a B&B in Keswick and it was a forty minute journey down to Tarn Hows on the coldest night of the year so far and I had to scrape the frost from the windshield before starting out. The satnav seemed to have planned my journey around the narrowest roads but I got there for 6.00 and the cold night led into a bright and sunny day. Dawn was gentle as there were few clouds in the sky but the morning light was beautiful. We must have spent 5 hours around the Tarn and here are a few of the pictures. I am not entirely happy with them and have spent the whole of November in search of a good autumn shot. They were all taken on the Nikon D800e with mainly t...

Boynton Marshes is an area of lovely flat marshland on the Butley River near Woodbridge, open to the sky and salt wind. We went there on a breezy bright day when the reeds were stirring.

These were taken on the D800 using a tripod in the wood at Rickling at the end of October. The trees in the heart of the wood are reluctant to turn gold, even though there are a number of beeches. They are still green now (18th November).

Some pictures taken of the British Library with my Fuji XE1. The first is one of the 'Planets' statues by Anthony Gormley and the second Eduardo Paolozzi's 'Newton', both in the plaza area outside the library. The flecks on Newton are rain drops - it was pouring at the time. The rest of the pictures are captioned. As you can see it was a pretty overcast and dull day, so I set my camera on auto ISO and it coped very well, although I have had to apply some noise reduction to the interior pictures. View of St Pancras Station from the British Library Stairs in the British Library Interior British Library The lobby in the British Library Hahn/Cock on the 4th plinth Trafalgar Square by Katharina Fritsch Selfridges

I had a weekend in the southern Lake District. There is a small hill, Gummers How, which overlooks Windermere and we went there for a walk. I now have 2 pinhole lenses. One is an adaptor for the Lensbaby and the other a cheap plastic Holga lens which I bought for around £15.00 (joy). The exposure varies with light levels but is normally long enough for a tripod to be needed. It is not always possible to see what you are taking with the pinhole as the viewfinder is too dark, so I usually set the shot up using a 50mm lens and then swop over. I set the exposure to manual for the pinhole and then try different times for the shot. Obviously you do not need to adjust focus The first few are from Gummers How and are mainly taken using intentional camera movement, moving up and down or zooming while taking the shot. The last 4 are of Dallam Chase in Milnthorpe, the last 3 are the ones where I have used the pinhole. There are a couple of 'normal' pictures of the same sort of views. ...

I have been spending a little time in a small wood fairly close to the house. These pictures were taken in October before the leaves had really turned, on a dullish day which is easier for taking pictures through the trees. A couple were also taken using the pinhole lens after I had taken the same view with a 50mm lens - so compare and contrast! I quite like the smudgy vignetted effect of the pinhole.