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Lemur pick pocket
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Lemur pick pocket at North Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

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Some result of playing with my +4 macro filter.

Jelly Babies


Fruit and Nuts


Orange Lily Macro

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More pictures at my India Set

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Slideshow from my trip to India

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Tortoises
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Slow and steady?

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Saltburn Cliff Lift
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Detail of the stained glass in the cliff lift at Saltburn-by-the-sea

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On the Bench
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Seaside bench at Saltburn-by-the-sea

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Pile of Pigs
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Bacon in the making? ;)

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Quarry Skyline on the North Yorkshire Dales

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View over the Dales from Toft Gate Lime Kiln

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Moss and Lichen growing on a dry stone wall near Kilnsey, North Yorkshire.

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Close up shot of the Toft Gate Lime Kiln in the North Yorkshire Dales.

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Hanging on
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Toft Gate Lime Kiln

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Here is my first real attempt at an HDR image, taken from three shot with a 1.3+- exposure bracketing.
The foreground is a bit blurry as the wind was moving the plants and I wasn’t using a tripod, notes for next time.

• After converting from the RAW files I arranged the three images as separate layers in Photoshop.
  
• The layers where arranged as +1.3 exposure,normal,-1.3.
  
• Then I added layer masks to the top two layers.
  
• Painting on the top layer mask I removed the “burnt out” sections from the top layers so the correctly exposed section from the layer below showed through.
  
• I repeated this again on the second layer.
  
• I ran a low Gaussian blur on the layer masks to soften the edges of the masks to reduce the halo effect.
  
• Then I merge each layer into the one below to create the finished image.
  

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Ripon Sunset Clouds
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Lilly
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From our front garden

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Messing about shooting an LED light ring in the dark.

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Long Marston Moor

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A couple of shots of some rusty pipes at York University Science Park

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Weeds on wall
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Weeds and moss growing on a church yard wall

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A Bokeh style picture of a bramble shoot growing on a church yard wall in York.

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HTC Desire Close Up
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Close up of the home screen on my HTC Desire.
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Down low in the oilseed
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Down low shot

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Path through an oil seed rape field

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Public path through a field of Brassica napus

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Oil seed rape flowers taken this morning on the way to work.


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Saltburn by the Sea


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Picture of my homemade bread

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Taken on a recent frosty morning in Ripon

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Wilson the dog

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Wilson playing with one of the favorite toys, an old pair of socks.

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Some street photography of Thirsk market.

At least no one approached me to stopped taking pictures under "terror laws".

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Week 17 Stained Glass
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One of the stained glass panels my mum made

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Footbridge at York University


BioCentre at York University


Tilt and Shift effect on a car park at York University

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11/52 Basket of Nuts
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Snapped during my wander around York University this lunch time, bike basket full of chestnuts.
That’s going to be some conker match.

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Just clearing out my mobile phone and other places uploading pictures I’ve forgotten about.

Taken at the side of the road on the drive home last Friday.

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10/52 Car Park Blur
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Messing with the manual focus,liked the blur on the lights and their reflections

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Taken by sticking the camera lens into the end of the lock & lock box.

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Some close up shots of fashion jewelry

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Playing with an old 4X Macro filter I had which I found out fitted my new Nikon D50.

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7/52 Paint Brushes 2
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Display of paint brushes

Week 7 of my 52 project

6/52 Galileo thermometer
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Week six of my posting at least one picture a week.

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Wilson waiting for me to throw his ball and to stop messing about with that camera.

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Nikon D50, try before you buy
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My friend Adrian has kindly let me try before I buy on his Nikon D50.

He’s doing me a cracking deal with two lens since he’s bought himself a new D3000.

Taken with my LG Renoir