A nice effect, almost like it's from a dream
A nice effect, almost like it's from a dream
Amazing architectural marvel.
There was a pause...
Mardale Head To Small Water Tarn
What a trip, what a scenery . Great effort with your b&w interpretation.
Fabulous series.
B&W comes back to Pilsbach
Superb.
HMS Belfast
Excellent history lesson and great series.
Great perspective and shot.
Child's curiosity.
Your original image is at
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and the version in this post appears to be a cropped, lightened and slightly less saturated version of the edit I posted in the same link.
In both images the tones in the foliage on the left and right are the same as is the orange top worn by the man in the background on the left.
@SteveMonks has written:Mardale Head To Small Water Tarn
The Start of Small Water Beck
This is where the stream exits the tarn and begins its exciting journey down the fellside to feed into Haweswater.
I see the plastic planting gang have been out again 😏
Yep, I do wish they'd leave things alone. They're actually rusty steel in this instance, so at least they're sort of biodegradable, eventually. I'm not sure what the point of that little plantation is to be honest, I counted about two dozen of them and as far as I can tell from the photos not a single one has a sapling in it.
When I saw them on Sunday I was wondering how long they'd been there and, having fired up the PC and performed the risky task of rummaging around in my old pre-subscription Lightroom catalog (every time I open it, I fear it's going to corrupt itself as it's definitely got previous form on that front), I can confirm they were there at least back in 2016 when I first visited High Street and descended by the Nan Bield Pass.
You can just see them in this 2016 image taken taken from the pass if you zoom in...
...and a bit more clearly in this rather mundane shot that I took on my way out from the tarn, seemingly completely ignoring the river to my left, probably because I was exhausted having gone up to High Street from Mardale Head via The Rigg, which I seem to recall was hard work even back then when I was fit.
Interestingly (or not), they were pretty rusty and there was no sign of anything growing in them even back then, so who knows how old the plantation was? Either way, it didn't take, or the deer off The Nab ate them somehow.
HMS Belfast
If you see a photograph of Tower Bridge in London, this old Second World War boat is usually in the scene. I had a personal reason for visiting this museum ship, My grandfather served on her, and was injured when she struck a mine in 1939. This boat took part in some important actions, such as the Artic convoys, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, D Day and the Korean war. The only downside to the visit was that the tickets were quite expensive. But the visit was much better than I expected. Warships have lots of ladders to climb between the different levels, and surprisingly in this nannying "elf and safety" world, the visit involves climbing a lot of steep ladders, including 103 steps down to the engine room.
I managed to piece together a bit of my grandfathers wartime service. I knew he served on ill fated HMS Hood. One of the guides told me he was most probably transferred to the Hood along with 300 other members of crew after she struck the mine and needed extensive repairs. He was transferred to a ship in the Mediterranean, before the Hood was sunk by the Bismark in 1941 with just 3 out of the 1418 crew surviving.
You really need at least two or three hours to visit the ship, to see all the various sections of the ship, and take advantage of the audio visual explanations.
Here are some pictures. The Z14-30 was the only lens I needed for the interior shots
Looks like a fascinating place to visit, I wish they kept more of the retired fleet like this rather than outright scrapping them.
I like the light in this one and,... is that a fake cat prowling for fake mice?
Child's curiosity.
That is one bizarre looking statue. Do you know if it has any particular significance?
@NCV has written:HMS Belfast
If you see a photograph of Tower Bridge in London, this old Second World War boat is usually in the scene. I had a personal reason for visiting this museum ship, My grandfather served on her, and was injured when she struck a mine in 1939. This boat took part in some important actions, such as the Artic convoys, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, D Day and the Korean war. The only downside to the visit was that the tickets were quite expensive. But the visit was much better than I expected. Warships have lots of ladders to climb between the different levels, and surprisingly in this nannying "elf and safety" world, the visit involves climbing a lot of steep ladders, including 103 steps down to the engine room.
I managed to piece together a bit of my grandfathers wartime service. I knew he served on ill fated HMS Hood. One of the guides told me he was most probably transferred to the Hood along with 300 other members of crew after she struck the mine and needed extensive repairs. He was transferred to a ship in the Mediterranean, before the Hood was sunk by the Bismark in 1941 with just 3 out of the 1418 crew surviving.
You really need at least two or three hours to visit the ship, to see all the various sections of the ship, and take advantage of the audio visual explanations.
Here are some pictures. The Z14-30 was the only lens I needed for the interior shots
Looks like a fascinating place to visit, I wish they kept more of the retired fleet like this rather than outright scrapping them.
I like the light in this one and,... is that a fake cat prowling for fake mice?
The cat is a fake, but he meows if you come close to the door.
A destroyer or Frigate from the Falklands war might of been a good floating museum.
Sadly Britain does not have a Navy worth its name anymore. My Uncle who was a Naval Officer, used to take me onto ships and submarines when I was a child. And when thre was Navy days in Portsmouth you could visit the big one like the Ark Royal.
Faroe Island landscapes
Much like Iceland, The Faroe's are also on my photographic bucket list, although as I have no desire to ever travel abroad again, that's where they're probably going to remain.
I think these two are my picks here, you can't beat a bit of mist cresting a mountain.
Mardale Head To Small Water Tarn
It was the summer of 2021 when I last visited Mardale, this was to see the drowned village, literally washed away when the valley was dammed and the existing Hawes Water lake expanded to become the Haweswater reservoir we know today. Shortly afterwards, I purchased a couple of old glass slides, purportedly taken around the area, prior to the flooding. One was a view of the Dun Bull Hotel in its mountainous surroundings, the other was a shot of a young woman sat on a rock beside a tarn. The tarn looked familiar and I quickly identified it as Small Water Tarn, located high in the hills above the drowned village.
It turns out that I visited the tarn in 2016, long before seeing the period photograph and have been meaning to return ever since. Last Sunday, feeling the need to get out of the house after a week of terrible weather, I decided I'd drive up to Mardale Head and revisit the tarn.
Having tentatively taken out my bigger cameras on short walks over the past couple of weeks, I decided if I was going to do this, I'd do it properly and took along the GFX100S. Ideally I'd have taken my full complement of lenses, but when I tested that, the bag would have been way too heavy, so instead I settled for the 32-64 and 45-100, giving me an effective range of 25-80mm(ish). I also took along my TC7 tripod as I generally figure that you need rigid support to see the 102 megapixel advantage of the GFX over the 45 megapixel Z8. And so, heavily overburdened, I set off from Mardale Head and headed up into the hills.
Riggindale
Having spent all afternoon in overcast conditions, it's no surprise that as I was driving away from Mardale Head the clouds broke and the scene was lit with beautiful light. Fortunately, I managed to find a spot to pull over and jumped out with the camera. to take this (and several similar) shot. It's kind of ironic that I spent all day lugging a heavy kit including a tripod up to the tarn, only to get (what I think are) the best pictures of the day leaning on a wall about 20ft away from my car.
A lovely set as usual, and the above shot is terrific. It often happens to me that after a walk, I get the best shot driving home.
I like the idea of before and after. You were just a few degrees of for the first one.
Child's curiosity.
Nice the way that the sculpture matches the lattice roof.
B&W comes back to Pilsbach
A short walk this week by a field of oats and a detail shot of a machine called a "Grubber" in German.
It's a sort of gentle plough that breaks up the soil but doesn't go so deep. Here are some of the shiny metal spikes catching the sunlight.
Nice study of shape in the second. Maybe I miss the colour in the first.