Beamish Museum of the North

We spent a day at the Living Museum of the North where they have reconstructed a town and Pit village from 1913. As with all these reconstructed towns, there were plenty of people playing the various roles in the museum quite happy to be photographed.

Monochrome Portrait

I don't often post portraits but I am especially pleased with this one of Sadie, which I have converted with Silver Efex.

Trying SilverFX

I have been trying out Silver FX, produced by Nik software, which is a very easy to use monochrome converter. I am very pleased with these pictures of Sadie.

Black Country Portraits

I used my free return ticket to the Black Country Museum today and the weather was very similar to our last visit in November - very cold, windy and wet. I used the Shift and Tilt lens, which meant a very slow rate of working as I find the most reliable way is to put the camera on live view and focus using the magnifier.