
4/52 Sitting Ducks
Sunset on a frozen Hatfield Forest lake. The ducks seemed quite happy sitting on the ice – there was a thawed our area of water to the right, but it was pretty crowded and had a couple of swans lording it over the ducks.
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Sunset on a frozen Hatfield Forest lake. The ducks seemed quite happy sitting on the ice – there was a thawed our area of water to the right, but it was pretty crowded and had a couple of swans lording it over the ducks.
It was all happening at Stansted airport this evening. This is the 17:20 arrival from who knows where coming in.
This was taken in Battersea Park, London last March…just as we were heading into a drought and hose pipe bans – you remember – those days when it didn’t just rain every day 😉 I have no idea why I didn’t process this 5 shot HDR at the time, becasue
Back in October we visited Northumberland. This is a view of Edingham Castle which you may be able to make out in the middle distance if you click the image for a larger version.

We had a day off from the rain so visited Rowney Woods for a stroll. I thought I’d try something different today. Normally when I look at the back of the camera and see a picture I like Iget it home and it’s rubbish. Today I looked at this shot

We were surprised, as I think everyone was, to wake up this morning and find the world was white. No indication had been given the night before on the forecast that this was on the way, still, it meant I won’t be scrabbling around at 11.45pm tonight trying to work

I revisited the site of some summer fun to use my 10 stop neutral density filter by Hi-Tech. As I have discovered before this comes with a very strong blue colour cast. Knowing this now I was able to take the appropriate white balance to correct this…and then re-added it

We took a walk around the countryside immediately around Stansted Mountfitchet this afternoon. For those of you who don’t know, this is the town that gives Stansted Airport (London’s 3rd airport) its name. Strangely, we didn’t notice hearing any planes at all during our 2 hour walk, but we could

Having been stuck in all day Saturday, with drizzling rain and flat grey skies it was nice to notice a bit of a sunset going on so I nipped outside and caught this in the 20 minutes the sun was able to break through the cloud cover all day.
Having had an excellent breakfast we jus had time to drive up to near the top of Ilkley Moor before we had to shoot back down the A1 back to Essex. There was a light mist just starting which, as we headed back down into the Wharfe Valley through Otley
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