Landscapes | Holkham Revisited

Last night, the photographic society had a guest speaker, Chris Palmer (his website here). He showed a collection of his work and some slides he had taken for the purposes of illustrating techniques to improve landscape photos.

I take a passing interest in Landscape but I'm no fanatic. However the talk inspired me to look back to my Holkham visit and grab one of the landscape photos I took there.

Looking forward I think I'm going to take a greater interest in Landscape photography, Chris called it a craft and I agree that it takes an a lot of skill and dedication. The dedication I can do, the skill, I hope will follow.

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Deficit Omne Quod Nasciture | Larus Ridibundus

Deficit omne quod nasciture, everything that is born passes away. This, the most steadfast fact of nature is too often overlooked by natural history photographers, and understandably, a galloping horse is far more attractive than a decaying one but no less important, I would argue.

This black headed gull lay dead on the beach ignored by the families building sand castles, labourers lifting beach huts with cranes and couples taking what they hoped would be a romantic stroll at a pace, with hands buried in pockets.

Maybe they had noticed, noticed and decided "dum vivimus, vivamus".

 

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Neapolitan Huts

Norfolk again, but without a grain of sand or a cloud in sight. This photo is presented as shot, bar the white border which I've added post process. 

I was drawn to making this image by the colours, the lines, so many lines and shapes. I'm also always attracted to photos with a reduced palette, but disappointed that often a reduced palette means reduced vibrancy and that doesn't suit me, as I like colours to be loud! 

Overall, I'm really proud of this photo. I hope you can find something you like in it too.

 

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Horse | Expectantly

If you offer a cupped hand to a horse they assume that you have something edible inside it. Once you have they're interest it's easy enough to back away and get a photo, horses are pretty greedy, they will eat grass for hours straight and then lift their head to sniff your pockets. I teased this horse for a while before reaching for a apple and giving it to her, it was the only way to get her to stop following me.

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