Falmouth - Photography Week 16 (2017)

I rarely go out these days without taking a compact camera with me and this invariably leads to an assortment of different photographs. Many of these are simple record shots of details that interest me or scenes that I find pleasing to look at.

These are some of the photographs taken on a short visit to Falmouth:

Osteospermum

Above the sea wall and near to Gyllyngvase beach is a wonderful bed of Osteospermum (daisy family):

Gyllyngdune Gardens

In front of Gyllyngdune Gardens is the listed Victorian spiral steps leading to the beach. The following images where captured using the in-camera HDR facility:

The gardens themselves were restored in 2011 and in common with the sea front it is neatly planted and maintained. This selection includes the leaves of a hosta, a backlit palm leaf, and close-ups of an agave plant:

At the entrance to the gardens was a carpet of bluebells and three-cornered leeks and this extended to a small patch on the sea front:

Harbour Reflections

In a recent post I shared a selection of Nottingham City canal reflections. I used the same approach at high tide around the harbour in Falmouth.

Gunnera

Gunnera, or giant rhubarb plants, are popular in many of the public gardens in Cornwall. The leaf patterns and textures are great to photograph and work particularly well when converted to black and white:

Rust

Finally, a rusty residue from the foot of some sea front metal railings providing a colourful abstract image:

City Walk - Photography Week 26 (2016)

Leaving the family shopping in Nottingham, I went searching for some urban landscapes along the city canal and the River Trent. With no particular objective in mind, I ended up with an eclectic panel of images selected for their colours, patterns, angles, and some stylised processing:

Buildings

The city incinerator (second image displayed) probably deserves a harsh black and white treatment whilst the tones and shapes of the other two buildings worked best with a grainy mono finish:

Canal Reflections

The city canal is more of a modern waterside these days with many new buildings. The reflections in the water are forever changing depending on the strength of the wind, the light, or perhaps a passing boat:

Metal & Rust

At one point on the canal there is stretch of metal wall with some great rust colours and patterns. Unfortunately, it started to rain as I lined up the camera so I headed for some shelter having only managed a couple of compositions: 

Meadow Lane Bridge

I particularly liked the patterns and colours of the brickwork under the Meadow Lane canal bridge.

Trent Bridge

There are some soft tones in the stone embankment near to Trent Bridge:

City Ground Angles:

Across Trent Bridge is the City Ground, home of Nottingham Forest football club:

River Walk

The river walk continues passed the football ground towards Trent Fields and the National Water Sport Centre at Holme Pierrepont:

HDR

High Dynamic Range software combines images with different exposures to obtain detail in the shadows as well as highlights. Occasionally a subject suits this type of processing: