*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.06.17 ***

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Working through my back catalogue looking for candidates for stock photography led me to discover some shots I'd previously overlooked. Here's one:-

Granite

Spent a few days on the Isle of Arran this week,it being the closest of the Scottish islands to our new home. Arran has a lot of geology! But the main mass of mountain in the centre is (fairly boring) granite. It weathers into wonderful shapes.

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Working through my back catalogue looking for candidates for stock photography led me to discover some shots I'd previously overlooked. Here's one:-

Love the RED 😀

That last shot is a cool composition.

Baroque architecture often seems a bit tacky and kitsch. Sometimes as in the example of Sant'Agostino in Modena, it seems rather joyful. I first saw this church some months ago, when I visited it to photograph the group of terracotta figures that make up a "compianto". It was crowded, as a Mass had just finished, and the Christmas decorations, did not fit well with the architecture.

So on that back of a work appointment in Modena, I visited on a quiet weekday. The church is medieval, but it was drastically altered in 1670, by the Duke of Modena for his fathers funeral, and as a family temple. I forgot to take my 14-30, which was the lens I should have had for the wonderful ceiling. So on my next trip to Modena, I will fill that gap.

Shot hand held with my Z7 + 24mm PC and the 24-200 zoom

Meanwhile, Out On The Moors...

It's been almost a month since my last excursion onto the moors, so my fitness is currently in the toilet and I've missed some of the spring / summer highlights such as the cotton grass doing its thing. Still, it was nice to be back up there on this somewhat warm evening, even if it seemed like hard work as I made my way up the modest few hundred feet of ascent from White Coppice onto the moors.

As I'm somewhat out of condition and it was a bit warmer than I'd have liked, I brought a reduced kit featuring just the Nikon Z7 + 24-70 f/2.8S and my CPL. Having the X-H2 along for the ride with a longer lens would have been nice, but I just couldn't face carrying an extra body, besides, it was hard work just dragging my chunkier than ideal frame up there on its own.

All images taken handheld and processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23, except for the sunset shot which is a blended 3 shot bracket.

1. The Goit

The Goit is a canal that connects the Roddlesworth reservoir chain to the Rivington chain at Anglezarke. This was taken from the small bridge that leads from White Coppice cricket ground to White Coppice itself and the mine ruins around Black Brook. It's always a pretty scene and seemed particularly nice on this occasion with the strong side light breaking through the trees. Unfortunately, in my hurry to get out onto the moors I've slipped up slightly and highlights on the trees are slightly clipped. Really, I should have bracketed down from this exposure, although the results are kind of nice as it is, so I think I got away with it, albeit barely.

2. Heapey

Having wheezed my way up to the top of the Black Coppice quarries, this is the view that presented itself to me. Here, I'm looking across the fields of Heapey towards the Mormon temple at the North of Chorley (the steeple can be seen dead centre near the horizon).

3. Not A Cloud In The Sky

The fence bounding the upper reaches of the Black Coppice quarry is currently down, making access to this potentially deadly location readily accessible to any idiot daft enough to wander in. Naturally, I took this opportunity to wander in and walk along the top of the quarry (maintaining a respectful distance from the edge as I'm not that much of an idiot and having once fallen into a gulley due to the path collapsing under my feet, it's not an experience I'm in a hurry to repeat any time soon, particularly over a much higher precipice. Anyway, I digress...) to a point where I could line up this picture of the only cloud in the sky above the isolated copse in the field. This has been cropped at the sides, mostly to reduce the amount of empty sky and the sun just poking into the picture on the left.

4. Drinkwater's

As I haven't been out on the moors in the best part of the month, I didn't feel quite up to going all the way up to the summit of Great Hill, so having followed Black Brook up on to the moors I left the gently flowing stream at the point where it runs past Drinkwater's and exited towards the remains of the farm.

5. Heapey Moor On The Cusp of Sunset

As I walked back along the main moorland path I was treated to this view looking back across Heapey Moor towards Coppice Stile, with the tree lined Healy Nab half heartedly looming in the distance. At this time of the year the sun sets way off to right of this picture, making it difficult to meaningfully include in pictures of these moors, but it does cast some nice soft light when the conditions are right and I particularly liked the way it picked out the colours of the moors in this occasion.

6. Coppice Stile

The enigmatic Hawthorn tree stands sentinel over the heaped remains of Coppice Stile house.

7. Sunset

Taken as I stood at the top of the steep and treacherous path leading down from White Coppice to the abandoned workings around Black Brook. Given I wasn't expecting much from sunset on this occasion due to the lack of clouds, this was an unexpected bonus, even if the foreground is a bit nondescript. Despite being a merged three shot bracket (0,-1,-2). I think my correct exposure shot was a touch underexposed as there's not an awful lot of detail lurking in that shadowy foreground.

Wow! That's some funeral planning! Ceilings do look amazing - looking forward to your next visit with your 14-30.

Glad to hear you're feeling better enough to get out on the moors. It must be so frustrating not feeling up to it. The heat this week hasn't helped.

These are my picks of this bunch. The lonely cloud makes the first one. It looks almost like something from one of NIgel's baroque ceilings 😀. The wide format of the others works well. Do I detect a bit of subtle colour enhancement in #5? Sunsets are usually overated in my opinion, the views looking the other way being often more interesting, as you show here.

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Paragliding with Mum
My mum & sister visited from England, so of course we had to take a look at the Alps.
We were only watching the paragliders, but it was still an achievement to get up the mountain in the cable car with the wheelchair. Mum can still walk OK but gets tired fairly quick.

First a smile from Mum on the top of the Bischling mountain.

And the view

Good to watch them start too

"Flight path"

The cable car here is called the "Ikarus Bahn"
You can book a tandem flight for about 180 Euro, maybe next time :-)

Not one for a sunny day day then!!! 😆

Nice shots of a memorable family day.

A typical WM image :-)
captures a moment in time in an interesting place, with something to think about. Nice bold red !

Is this a modified photo where the girl was added or the background was changed, or is it all "fake"; coming from a combination of your imagination and computer algorthims ?
Whatever it is, the final image is cool !

Glad to hear you are out and about again :-)
These are my picks
-1 Good effect in this image, at first glance, almost like the trees on the left are putting down big pipes into the river to suck up the water, sometimes my brain works in a funny way like that ;-)
-5 nice gentle pastel colours. Now we now your magic tricks, I think you've pushed up that magenta slider a bit in this one again. works well.
-6 works well
-7 that red sunset light on the far meadow works very nicely

Good set as usual
With your weekly posts, usually to a church or cathedral, I'm getting to feel like I'm a regular "church goer" ;-)

I know you're very keen on getting the verticals "right" and with your PC lenses and software corrections etc. , the results look good.
When corrected it gives you the feeling of "being there" instead of the feeling that you're just "looking at a photo of the place".

This particular shot is however a bit different. Although the verticals are corrected, it somehow looks "a bit off", too top heavy. Like the columns are leaning out the wrong way. Maybe a touch less keystone correction and a very slight rotation to the left would help ?

I like those simple shapes & texture of the first two, especially in the second one

The first two are really nicely exposed. Super ornate interiors.