And Spring?

There's been an unfortunate hiatus caused by three things: illness on my part, a very cold spell in March which meant photography was limited by cold winds and snow and a dirty sensor.

I used a wet cleaner kit ("washing' the sensor three times!) to sort the dirt on the D7100 sensor.  Quite straightforward though I was a little worried by the whole idea.

Eventually I gave in to the relentless low temperatures and snow storms and paid a visit to my local church where the forms leapt out of the blanket of snow.  Not much to HDR here though it did bring out some of the detail lost to snow dominated exposures.

The graveyard which I used to walk through every day to and from primary school had lost much of it's  morbid languor.  Instead the graves seemed defiant against the snow, and more numerous against the white background.

One night whilst travelling for a pub meal in the hilly countryside to the north of Sheffield, I rounded the corner and got the view below.  It was frustrating to only have an iphone to capture the scene, some fiddling with the focus point was necessary to get the right exposure.  The lesson is, of course, always have a camera in the car!



After weeks - its seemed of cold weather and snow the temperatures rose sufficiently to melt the snow - though the east wind was bitterly cold.  But the sun showed through again and moreover the clouds rose and broke-up to provide the perfect conditions for atmospheric sunset shots in colour and black and white.

More of these can be found on the Flickr set - here

And the rest of my photos here at my Flickr photostream