Chemistry Cottages are about a mile from my home and I pottered round them yesterday, for the umpteenth time, seeking photographic inspiration.
I notice a group of trees that appealed but the light vanished as soon as I set up the tripod. I therefore had to try and recreate what I had first seen using software.
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A black and white conversion using a Topaz Labs plug-in was nearer to what I had first visualised.
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On my way back I saw the creative possibilities of a gate to a scrapyard, which I had passed and ignored many times over the past 40 years.
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As I was leaving, a man came out of the yard to speak to me. I was expecting a bollocking but instead received an invitation to photograph inside the gate.
An abandoned lorry trailer glowed within the gloom, with it's side covers mouldered to a rainbow like curtain and an old boiler peeping out from within..
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Even the nearby pebbles were multi-coloured.
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To make up numbers here are a few recent images that have missed the cut.
Kinder Downfall during last summer's drought.
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The Kinder River sans l'eau.
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A gnarled oak tree near Guthwaite Hall
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From a Rotherham PS trip to Conisborough Church (the oldest building in South Yorkshire).
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Edlington Church was the first church to be saved by the Churches Conservation Trust.
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I'm not sure that Cadeby Church should have been saved as the Victorian stonework is so rotten it's going to cost a fortune to replace. The American Organ's not too good either.
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