Not the best weather if I am honest, for landscape photography. A spur of the moment decision to head to the coast, camera in hand. No planning, no consulting tide-tables or working out where the sun would rise… some vague ideas for some ICM work along the ‘beach’… but there was no beach, just rocks and event he dull weather didn’t provide any crashing waves…

But fun was had walking the coast, cursing when the sun made a momentary break through the clouds to provide some wonderful light when I was far removed from anything worth photographing and stressing when a rainbow materialised across the bay… but I did take along some ND filters to allow for long exposures. I’ve always been interested in panoramas and managed to complete a couple that are far from award-winning but gave me pleasure in creating them.

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Tides Out

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Distant Rain Shower

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Harbour Entrance

There isn’t much left of Wallingford Castle; a moat type ditch, a couple of minor walls plus plenty of bumps and mounds. This morning, in the first decent day of weather for an age, I took a wander along the Thames and into the castle grounds. The intention was to take a few macro shots of the buttercups that are smothering the fields at the moment so I only took the ageing 24-105mm lens and a reversing ring. The closeups are fine, I’ll post a couple perhaps, but this panorama I rather liked.

It is formed from five stitched images and heavily cropped top and bottom.

I admit it is not the greatest landscape image, not helped by the sub-par quality of the lens but I find it pleasing. I should also note that the sky was replaced via the new sky replacement filter in photoshop.

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