An occasional Photo Blog
A monochrome theme seems to be predominating the blog at the moment, so I decided to ‘develop’ one of today’s photos as a high contrast image…… remember the experiments with fast film and hard paper all those years ago?
To add a splash of colour, the second photo was taken through grape vines, still appearing quite lifeless at this time of the year of course.
Inserting a short photo session in between doing the shopping and cooking a fondue for guests this evening didn’t really leave me much time to develop my full photographic potential.
A walk with the dog was spent plodding along well trodden, muddy paths in my favourite wellies. The day was cool, grey and misty and I found nothing in particular to inspire me at all.
Not very surprising I suppose because this was, after all, my usual Saturday jaunt. The quite commonplace landscape views were obscured by the weather, and anything else which may be considered just a little interesting simply appeared quite ordinary, but I was determined to take a picture of something.
At last a photo. The small, cosy pillar of smoke rising from a chimney in a neighbouring village caught me eye, and what little colour there was in the picture seemed almost an intrusion.
Not wishing to glorify the past, but I thought it somehow appropriate to begin the new blog with the essence of an old entry. The last posting written at the very end of 2010 saw me lamenting over my idleness. Telling the world that I spent the Christmas holidays eating, drinking and laying about doing very little. Well, nothing has really changed. I was out and about early yesterday morning to capture the beaver’s activities once again, but that didn’t really produce very startling pictures… in fact they appear very similar to those in that famous ‘last post’. Still, it’s a start, and I’m sure motivation will increase rapidly!
