The theme for this weeks challenge has been kindly set by Tom - fishing guy and is `Tracks`.
Now many of you would think, knowing that I worked on the railway for a number of years, that railway tracks would be my chosen photo subject in relation to this theme, but, no! you�d be wrong.
I�ve decided to stay well clear of the railway tracks on this occasion, and so, camera in hand I went out to see what other tracks I could find.
Well one of the first tracks I came across was from my car tyres. Here they are leaving tracks in the mud�
As you can see, Its been a bit on the wet side recently and as we live on a country lane tyre tracks in the mud are a common occurrence.
The roads near where we live are themselves just tracks really�
Welcome to the Lincolnshire countryside!
Coming back into the house, and the warmth, after the cold damp trip around the country lanes, I decided to put on some music and realised that here was even more tracks; the tracks on a music CD�
Here you go I've taken some close-up macro shots of the cd tracks for you.
The CD I chose even has `Tracks` in it�s title�
For my header though this week I have gone for one of the many farm tracks around my house, one our girls frequently use to walk our dog.
I wonder what track my fellow headbangers have travelled down for their headers this week?
Its great to see the number visiting my blog growing each week. Why don�t you say hello and introduce yourselves. Tell me what you like and why you dropped by. Maybe there is something new you would like to see on my blog? Or something I�ve done in the past revisited. Whatever the reason for the visit remember to say hi and come back soon.
Thanks for dropping by.
How I see myself has been chosen for the header theme by imac this week.
Now I�m sure my fellow headbangers imac, Lanny, fishing guy and Gailsman will agree we all see ourselves in
different ways.
I see myself as being Scottish�
I also see myself as a proud family man�
This was taken whilst visiting Pompeii in Italy whilst on a family holiday. Thanks for getting me around and over all those cobbles.
What you will find is that I also see myself as a photographer. Not an exceptional one but one who is constantly experimenting new techniques and visiting new places always with camera in hand.
As my friends will know I�m also a bit of a techy so you will also find me surrounded by gadgets whether they be cameras, computers, phones or anything remotely technological�
So as you can see, I see myself as a Scottish family man with a penchant for photography and all things technological who loves to explore and record my journeys through my photographs and blog.
But then as you can see from my header this week this is one photographer who enjoys warping that reality too.
Let me know what you think via the comments section and then drop in on the other headbangers to see what they think of themselves, just follow the links at the top of the right hand menu bar.
This weeks challenge has been set by yours truly. Knowing that it was going to be posted up the day after Burns night I was thinking Scottish but for some reason I said �pipes�.
Now I can understand my connection and I was able to get some pictures of the good old Highland pipes�
I�ve even got photo�s of a whole marching band of them�
But, knowing my fellow headbangers, Fishing guy, imac, Lanny and Gailsman that's just what they would be expecting from me.
So I decided to have a look around for some more pipes�
we therefore have radiator pipes.
The pipes of the beautiful organ in the cathedral Notre Dame in St Omer Northern France, taken last summer.
Even some copper piping travelling up the wall of our house�
All possibly good photograph�s in their own right but they still lack that extra something for the header so this week I have gone for some small pipes in fact they are straw ones.
I hope you enjoy looking around, feel free to tell me what you think in the comments section before popping over to see what my other headbangers have come up with for `Pipes`.
Hi all and welcome to another Header challenge Wednesday.
Today�s choice has been chosen by Lanny and is `Missing�.
Now my first thought was just to put up a blank header and say the picture is `missing� but I thought you might think that was a bit of a cop out.
So I�ve put my thinking cap on and come up with a few ideas and hopefully a good header.
I could use the bird feeder shot in which I missed the bird�
Or the eggs that had been `missing` all week�
we had begun to think our chickens had slowed down their egg production when we found these behind a fence panel in the garden (28 in total).
Or how about the synchro pair of the red arrows, when `missing` each other on their high speed cross-over's is vitally important.
I�ve decided to stay with the Red Arrows for this weeks header, but a shot of one of their displays last year when they were `missing` one of their team due to illness. They still managed to put on a great show though. Can you spot where the missing arrow should be in the formation?
Oh well one thing more I am missing tonight is another 800 words for my University essay that is due in tomorrow, so I will leave you all for the moment. Hopefully I won�t be `missing` for too long.
Have a wonder over to the other headbangers blogs in the mean time and check what they are `missing` this week in their headers.
Well it�s header challenge time again (or a bit past it I�m very late posting this. sorry everybody). This weeks theme is `Water` and has been chosen by fishing guy.
Water, well there has been a lot of that including coming through the ceiling from what looks like a burst pipe so I�m afraid this is a very short post.
Here's a few pictures of some water drops for your delight, I hope you like them�
Thanks for visiting, remember to leave your comments and then drop in on the other headbanger team members to see what they have done this week.
This weeks header challenge is the last one for this year 2010. imac had the choice for this weeks topic and he has gone with betwixed or between as it is the week between 2 great celebrations that of Christmas and New year.
There are lots of things that are between but choosing the right one for my header is never an easy choice.
I could have gone with a photo of the magical time between day and night as the sun sets producing stunning colours in the evening sky.
Or back to the beauty of summer looking down the river as it travels between it�s banks.
Keeping on the same line of thought how about the bridges that span between the sides of a river, in this case the Samuel Beckett bridge which allows Dubliners to travel between one side of the Liffey and the other.
In the end I�ve chosen photo taken at the Waddington Airshow. It shows the Lancaster bomber between its fighter escorts. This bond between these historic and illustrious aircraft is now known the world over.
Well 2010 is soon coming to a close (I can�t believe the next header challenge will be in 2011). I hope you have enjoyed sharing my journeys and photography with me this year. Don�t worry there will be plenty more to see in the new year.
Don�t forget to leave your comments, good or bad on everything you see, good healthy criticism is the best way to grow as a photographer, and I value all your comments and suggestions.
It just leaves me to say, remember to check in on my other header challenge friends, Tom-fishing guy, imac, Lanny and Gailsman and I wish all my readers the very best for 2011, and may the New Year bring joy and happiness (and lots of photo opportunities) to you all.
As most of you know each Wednesday I join some friends, Tom-fishing Guy, imac, Gailsman and Lanny to create a header based on a theme chosen by a member of the group.
This weeks challenge has been set by Lanny. She has chosen anticipation for her header theme this week.
With three kids I thought getting a picture of anticipation would be easy, but, most of the family have gone down with the flu bug over the last couple of weeks. So unless you count anticipation of getting rid of the snuffles, I don�t think they were in the mood for photographs.
So I thought I would look through my back catalogue of photos to see if I had any that would fit the theme of anticipation.
How about anticipation at the start of a relay race�
Anticipation of a lovely new day�
Anticipation of childhood new discoveries�
But I felt that at this time of year the biggest anticipation is the celebration of the coming of Christ at Christmas. So this week I have chosen to take a photo of our nativity scene to show my families and hopefully thousands of others� anticipation of the Christmas message.
Luke 2:11 "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Anticipate and Celebrate the real reason for Christmas this year.
This weeks challenge is that winter favourite Snow.
Now for a change we have had some snow already in South Lincolnshire. Nowhere near as much as many other parts of the UK but even the little we have had seems to have caused chaos. Schools have been closed though much to my daughters disgust not theirs. Even my university the Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln closed its campus for about a week due to the snow.
It may cause problems for many but it certainly is beautiful to look at.
though I don�t think our chickens agreed.
So what should I use as this weeks header?
I thought a first to go with footprints in the snow�
but couldn't get it to fit the full width of the header bar and I wanted something a little better.
How about�
our dog Corky in the snow but again wrong shape for the header bar.
I even looked at a photo I took of the snow as it melted from our garden table forming some very strange shapes�
but it was in the wrong format for the header bar so I chose a photograph taken from an upstairs window looking out across the fields of South Lincolnshire whilst the snow continued to fall.
Hope you like it and are enjoying the picture opportunities snow whilst it lasts.
Don�t forget to leave your comments on my blog and then check out the other snow pictures of the headbangers, just follow the links in the right hand menu bar.
We keep a few chickens in our back garden here in Lincolnshire as many of you know. Having fresh eggs daily from your own chickens is really nice and they always seem to taste better when they are your own chickens.
Well we got a bit of a surprise this lunchtime when we collected in our chickens egg from their nest boxes. They were all cracked! Nothing really unusable about that as eggs get cracked all the time. The surprise was why they had cracked.
They had all frozen solid within their shells�
So instead of hard boiled eggs we had hard frozen eggs!
It was so unusual as in all the years we have had chickens we have not seen it before. So I just had to get the camera out and take some pictures.
Poor chickens, time for extra straw and a nice warm mash!
Now this weeks header challenge theme has been set by by my good friend imac. He has decided he wants us to have a go at creating a collage.
Having checked, a collage is described as being, derived from the French word for "gluing". It originally referred to the physical process of gluing a number of pictures, photos or drawings onto a flat piece of paper, in order to create an artistic composition.
Well I�m sure I can do that with the help of Photoshop. As for the glue well the computer has a cut and paste option for placing your photos so there is the glue.
My first thought was a group of images, in this case flowers�
Then I thought why not be a bit more adventurous�
by turning one photo into numerous Polaroid's and then sticking them back together again.
I tried a few different ones�
some with backgrounds and some without.
I eventually decided on a photo with all my daughters in. I then laid them out and stuck them onto a virtual desk, I hope you like it.
If you want to know how I did it, leave me a request, via my comments section and I will endeavour to write a detailed explanation on it in a future blog.
Don�t forget to check out the other members of the headbangers, imac, Tom-fishing guy, Lanny and Gailsman to see what collages they have come up with for this weeks challenge.
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Now this weeks challenge, chosen by Lanny is just one word, �persimmon�. Now in Lanny�s neck of the woods persimmon trees and fruit might be easy to come by, but, over here in beautiful Lincolnshire, England its almost unheard of.
I understand that persimmon is a burnt orange type of colour much like our sunsets.
Or the colour of beautiful flowers�
They may be the right colour, but, as we are in Lincolnshire and don�t have access to persimmon trees they still aren't the fruit.
In Boston home to St Botoloph�s church, known locally as the stump, persimmon is seen on many signposts�
Not advertising fruit trees but rather, a house building company, Persimmon Homes.
They are building a new riverfront complex in Boston Lincolnshire so that is what I have chosen to use as my header.
I hope you like my take on the theme Persimmon, especially you Lanny, let me know what you think and don't forget to visit my other headbanger friends to see their take on this weeks challenge. Just follow their links at the top of my right hand column.
This weeks headbangers challenge has been set by Tom- fishing Guy and is `Fall has Arrived`. Now over here we don�t call it the fall but stick to Autumn. So I hope you don�t mind Tom but I�ll sub head this weeks header with �Autumnal�.
Now autumn colours I love, all the golden yellows vibrant gold's and bronzes of the leaves. The bright red of the berries in the hedgerows, they all make for an outstanding photo opportunity.
So to try and get that great shot I headed over to a little lake in my neighbouring village to take some photos for the header challenge.
Now the lake isn�t very big but there is still an abundance of trees surrounding it.
Unfortunately as you can see from this photo I arrived a little late for some of them as they had already lost a lot of their leaves.
So it called for a bit more creativity.
Holding the camera just above the ground gave me this more exciting photo.
I used the berries and tree trunk in this shot to frame the fishing jetty and Lily pads.
It must be nice to live in this bungalow and have the beauty of the lake at the bottom of your garden.
I hope you like the little Autumn jaunt down to the lake. Do you think the different camera angles have worked? Let me know what you think in the comments section.
If this is your first visit why not stay a while have a look around then pop over to see the other entrants in this weeks header challenge. Just follow the links at the top of my right hand column.
Technorati Tags: Headbanger,Challenge,November,Fall,Autumn,header,Autumnal,gold,photo,lake,village,trees,tree,garden,photos,berries,cameraThis weeks header challenge has been chosen by imac. His choice this week is �Sepia�.
Sepia is the name given to the photographic development process used to enhance its archival properties and to give the photograph a warmer hue. The process got its name from the adding of a pigment to the chemical development of the photograph, derived from the Sepia officinalis cuttlefish found in the English channel.
With modern digital developments and printing processes the sepia pigment is no longer required to assist the photographs protection against the elements. Now sepia toning is mainly seen in either very old photographs or new photos digitally enhanced to look old.
Most photo editing software can now change a colour image into a sepia toned image giving the illusion that the photograph is old or just to add a warming effect to enhance the image.
The effect can be subtle as in the above photograph. just to add warmth to an image.
It can also be used to give an illusion of age to a photograph�
helped in this picture by the addition of period costume.
Pictures of historical societies can also be enhanced by the technique�
as in this group riding their period bicycles through Spalding in Lincolnshire.
Changing the tone to sepia has helped to give the illusion of age to the scene, even though it was actually taken this year.
The technique can be used to Add warmth to an image instilling not necessarily age to the picture but atmosphere.
Sepia has a wide range of applications now other than its original meaning.
Let me apologise for the scarcity of my posts over the last 2 weeks but this has been due to a telephone line fault resulting in the loss of internet access other than via my mobile phone. Hopefully the fault will soon be fixed, we have internet now, but, it is very slow as the fault has only partly been resolved.
Tell me your thoughts on sepia, do you think it is still a viable option to enhance photographs?Let me know your thoughts via the comments section regarding anything about my blog, good or bad.
Why don�t you drop in on the other headbangers and see what they have devised as a header and post for Sepia. Just follow the links at the top of the right hand column.
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