17th June 2013 - Upton Dyke

Today was my first full day back at home. Jason was still here so we decided to go for a walk to take photos.

We started our walk on the marshes where we decided to walk to the dyke rather than all the way to the riverside. All the cows in the field decided they wanted to come and say hello but soon got bored of watching us and went back to grazing.

We found the path that leads to the dyke and followed it through marshes and a field of horses.

When we neared the dyke we stopped to take photos of the windmill.

I took a few photos, but couldn't find much inspiration.

Jason wanted to take some long exposure shots across the water, so I left him to it and had a wander around, slightly further up river. There was a boat that I liked the look of but I couldn't get the composition right as things were in my way, so I let the shot go.

On our way back to my house we walked past this house - it's so pretty!

Day Seventeen

16th June 2013 - Dovedale

We got up early to finish packing. My dad had offered the yesterday night to take me and Jason to the peaks if we (I) was packed and ready early enough. We misjudged how long it was going to take to get everything done and we were in a bit of a rush, but we managed to get everything done by half eleven when we set off for Dovedale.


We found a nice rock to sit on and eat lunch when we arrived, and Jason and I spent some time taking photos. It was pretty busy since it was a) the weekend and b) a nice day. We had ideas for photos, but there were too many kids running around for some of them to be feasible. Nevertheless, Jason decided to give it a go anyway. When he's uploaded some photos I'll link them. I didn't bother to try some things as I didn't have the patience to wait for people to get out of the way.

I attempted to use the Brenizer method a couple more times, this time using my 55-250mm to see how it would turn out.

The second one I tried has too many photos and kept crashing. I'm going to try doing it in smaller batches but I haven't sorted the photos into these smaller batches yet.

After a while we had to head back in order to make it home at a reasonable time. On the walk back to the car, we passed a man (fly?) fishing in the river/stream and I stopped to take a photograph. He saw me and gave me a big grin but I used autofocus and the camera decided the people behind him were more important so it's all out of focus... my own fault really, even though I selected the focus point right on top of him. Stupid camera. Oh well!

We took a couple more photos just before we reached the car park and then headed off.

Messed about a little bit with my camera on the journey home and looked through Jason's shots.

We made it back in good time. I showed off my huge tv (the only reason I didn't get a train home for summer) and we watched tv for a while.

6th June 2013 - An Unexpected Visit

Today I'm off to Scarborough to stay with my lovely friend Leigh-Anne for a few days. I got up bright and early (9am is early for me at least) and headed off to the station.

The train to York was running a couple minutes late, minutes the ticket guy assured me we'd make up. "You'll have plenty of time to get to your connector," he said. After arriving in York ten minutes late, I sprinted to the Scarborough platform only for the doors to lock the second I got there. So much for plenty of time... I got my ticket changed but the next train wasn't for an hour so I decided to have a little wander around the city.

 

It was beautiful! I took lots of photos, mainly of geese... There was the cutest little gosling marching around the park 'honking' away, but he wouldn't stand still and I didn't manage to get a decent photo of him

Not really sure what this little guy was doing, I think he was trying to eat the daisies?

As I was walking back to the station I noticed that a load of bubbles were being floating through the street.

I'm finally on the train to Scarborough now.