Ham House

With rain threatened for the rest of the day, I decided a visit to a National Trust property was the best idea yesterday and Ham House was the nearest to my evening lecture destination. It is a Jacobean house(1610 onwards) with a lot of the original furniture (more of this later) and the grounds are very impressive with both original 17th Century gardens and some later statues and landscaping. A place well suited to the use of the infrared camera. Thanks to Richmond and Twickenham Photographic Society for a warm welcome in the evening. 

Testing Notepad

Trying to find good way of putting up entries from my Notepad. Here using Blogger app. seems ok

Grand Central Railway Leicestershire

 On Saturday we spent a very enjoyable day as guests of David and Francoise (first image)  travelling on the Grand Central Railway starting at Loughborough. It was their Wedding Anniversary celebration with everything done in the 1930's style - costumes, dancing, drinks, cake, dinner and Murder Mystery event.

Beechwoods in Infrared

 For lionel to show another great use of infrared to give interest and contrast to woodlands on a very dull wet day.

Sony Camera Effects

 Another play with the built in effects on the Sony RX100. Gives a bit of variety to a familiar walk in my village

Misty morning in Toft Wood

Cambridge Towers in Infrared

 Inspired by Dave Yates (http://www.daveyatesphotography.com) IR images that he showed on Monday, I dusted off my Infrared-converted camera for a shopping trip into Cambridge. Bit too much cloud on occasions to get good contrast in the sky but here are four 'old' towers to show it works with these as well as the ultramodern.

Scarborough Then and Now

 Scarborough South beach area has changed very little since 1900 when the first photo was taken with its mobile bathing huts. Scarborough is now a very multicultural place with all nationalities mixing happily on the beach with their different cultural dress.

The harbour has obviously changed a lot from the busy dock of the 1900s to a place of leisure. The painting was done by Frederick William booty and you can see from the following two photos how the artist's licence has allowed him to elongate the whole scene even though he is viewing from an apparent higher point.

Scarborough at Night

 A second night-time session in Scarborough, this time with the Canon 5D III on a tripod so possible to do some real long exposures.

Fulmars and a Gannet

 A few images taken from the boat of Fulmars  in the sky and against the sea and a favourite Gannet image with backgrouns sea and cliffs.