Early Morning in London including the new Coal Drops Yard Development

I decided to make the most of my train fare to London on Saturday so I got an early train arriving just as the sun came up in the King's Cross area. The changes there in only a few months are extraordinary but there is still a lot of clearing up to do at the Coal Drops Yard development  if they are to achieve the artists vision by the Opening on October 26th. I walked as far as Warren Street and then took tube to Green Park where the sunlight through the trees etc took my eye and filled the rest of the available time!

People's Vote March in London on 20th October

I joined a mass of an estimated 670,000 people on /Saturday, asking that any or no Brexit deals are put to the people before acceptance. The first poster sums up the reasons for this demand whatever way you voted. There were so many people at the rally that only a small percentage of the protestors could make it to Parliament Square and getting back on the Underground etc was no fun!

Brandon Country Park - Experimenting with Fungi

Beautiful autumn day on Friday for our visit to Brandon Country Park. Although not a bumper year, there were enough fungi to keep us happy for the day. As usual, I tried various techniques - in the comparison pairs here, the lefthand images are single shots either with 10mm (1) or 50mm (3,5,7) lenses, F18-F5.6, while the comparison images (2,4,6,8) are all focus stacked with the 50mm lens using 30-40 images at F2.8. In 9 and 10, the difference between the 24mm and 10mm ends of the wide zoom on the Fuji are apparent

 

Henry Moore Foundation Part Two

Second set of images form the Henry Moore Foundation. All from the camera (double exposures etc) with minimal manipulation - the shapes and colours are irrestible. I loved the way the sheep and birds interacted with the sculptures - many of these were placed in their position by Moore during his lifetime.

Henry Moore Foundation. Part One

A wonderfully inspiring place to visit, the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green is where he lived from 1940 till his death in 1986.  It includes the artist's restored home, Hoglands, and its flower garden, his studios, and over 70 acres of less formal gardens and fields containing many of his monumental sculptures. The collections include sculptures in stone, wood, plaster and bronze, drawings and sketchbooks, graphic work, and preparatory materials such as found objects and maquettes. 

I concentrated on four or five of the large sculptures, enjoying the rain, reflections and shapes - here the first two.