Posts from the ‘Landscapes’ Category
Swans in the mist
Many of my best images were taken from the bottom of our garden, because, when the light is special, you can get down there in thirty seconds. This shot was taken yesterday morning, when the sun was still very low in the sky. Just printed it out to A3+, and it looks quite good. So, I’ve put it into my ‘exhibition collection’…….if I ever get round to having one!
Flaps down!
Obviously I need to get myself a 400mm lens…..a lot of subjects are just too far away for the 70-200mm. Anyway, as you may see, I’ve had a wee play with the brush tool on Lightroom 2, adding some colour where it didn’t exist in reality. I’m old fashioned enough still to feel I’m cheating!
Fjällgrycken
Yeah, I’ve posted a similar inverted reflection shot of this summer cottage before, but it was taken in the summer…….this was in October, as you see from the intense colours.
Old Fishing Jetty
Down beyond an abandoned farmstead is a a tiny lake. Someone had built a little ‘bus shelter’ fishing hut. I sat there for a while, dreaming of seeing an elk (moose) coming to drink. Of course it didn’t, but this shot perhaps let you feel the tranquillity of the location.
Autumn in Dubblebo
On Thursday the snow arrived, but here’s a shot taken 4 weeks earlier. The autumn colours were so intense and beautiful. Dubblebo is an old summer pasture – just 2 houses – and over the last few years a nice woman has been keeping her cows there over the summer months. The last time we met her, she was about to leave because her cows were ‘getting spooked by the bears’, and so was was she!
Chainsaw Man
Bengt-Erik is an artist with a chainsaw, and of course, he shuns the need
for any protective gear, as he has been doing it since he was 16. Here he is
cutting a channel to take a sub frame for the front door.
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The Barn Door
My last wood texture shot for a while. The securing of the hasp with a twig
sweetly symbolised the trust of country folk in those around them. And then
last Friday night, when we’d gone to visit friends in Uppsala, our barn was
broken into, and a ride-on mower and other valuable stuff was stolen. The
first theft in the village for over 50 years. I felt a mixture of anger and
sadness. Somehow it has spoiled the innocence of the place.
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Norrboda Fence
Used the ‘Aged Photo’ preset on Lightroom for this – quite like the result.
And isn’t it a nice and simple way to build a fence?
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Old Village
This old village of timber houses and barns dates, in parts, from the 17th
century. It’s called Norrboda, and it’s north of Rättvik, in the middle part
of Sweden. The wood textures are very beautiful.
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