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9th Oct 2017 - Heron on Platts Lodge

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10th Oct 2017 - Cali my little cat - she helps out when I'm really stuck for an image

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Aww! She is beautiful.
I like soft cuddly furry things(not tarantula's though)

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Thanks, she was a stray that I took in a few years ago.....

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11th Oct 2017 - Grey Wagtail from one of the few moments when it stopped raining...

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So, she chose you.
That has been the way with a few of the kitties I have been the servant to.
Dogs have owners, cats have servants.:)

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12th Oct 2018 - Cali, my little cat again

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13th Oct 2017 - A View from the Nick O' Pendle in the style of Ansel Adams...

The second image is the colours of Autumn that I found in this leaf...

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14th Oct 2017 - Loco 60009 Union of South Africa leaving Ramsbottom

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Had a weekend north of the border, weather could have been better so only got a few pics...

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15th Oct 2017 - Kestrel 1

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15th Oct 2017 - Kestrel vs Dragonfly

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Some others from today - late evening in Southport...

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nothing special from me...
I took these pics early this afternoon.(the exif data gives the time of 13.44 for the first pic)
Apparently the redness of the sun has much to do with Storm Ophelia...and sand from the sahara.
I feel pretty sure that someone out there will have pictures much better than these

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16th Oct 2017 - Temple in the Woods

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17th Oct 2017 - Plantation St Accrington

Today (or late this evening) I had a walk up Plantation St to see what I could see with with my photographers eye... interesting place with lots of history...

Modern Paving Stone...
The Waterfall
And an interesting tree....

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18th Oct 2017 - Robin

To be honest I can definitely hear Gerard Butler doing a voice over in his very best King Leonidas shouty voice "THESE ARE MY SEEDS!!!"

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Just love that picture.
It would make a 'spot on'personal Christmas card from you.
Set in an oval aperture on a snowflake embossed card.

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19th Oct 2017 - A Misty Day Up North

Inspired by Northern artist called Trevor Grimshaw, with a little but of a digital manipulation using Redfield's Fine Touch Plugin....

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Some others from today..

Windfarm between Haslingden Road and Grane Road
Glass panels on a door of a derelict building on Broadfield

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Pictures of Ruby Roobarb sat under the table.

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today...some cutting and gluing...and a bit of crayoning too.

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20th Oct 2017 - Views from the Grane Road

Ogden Reservoir and sluice gate...

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21st Oct 2017 - Rain... Lots of rain...

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number 1 is ace!

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Great picture

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Hameldon Woods, I thought the trees would have been more autumnal, perhaps in a week or two if the hurricanes don't blow all the leaves off.

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22nd Oct 2017 - Autumn Trees

After the rains yesterday, it was nice to see a bit of blue sky and some sunshine...

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23rd Oct 2017 - The Gate (near Calf Hey Reservoir)

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Oakenshaw weir wet underfoot and wet on the head.

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Nice one, I went a month few months ago when they were still building the fish weir.

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Where about's is Hameldon Woods?

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24th Oct 2017 - A Church at Night

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Its just out of Huncoat on the way to Burnley its on the hapton boundary. there is a lay by on the right hand side just before you get to the warehouses that sell animal feeds.

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And one from the other direction

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25th Oct 2017 - LNER Class A4 - 60009 Union of South Africa leaving Irwell Vale

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26th Oct 2017 - Pendle Sunset

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27th Oct 2017 - Sunset

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Apologies for today's image... a bit of an experiment using my Laowa 60mm f2.8 2:1 super macro + EP25 Extension Tube and a dead fly...

28th Oct 2018 - Dead Fly

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Oo-er...that is different.
Not keen on the subject matter, but the definition is superb.
Well shot.
I want to click like...but only for the skill in taking the shot.

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Thanks, this particular lens is quite difficult to use at best as it's fully manual, even more so using the extension tube, so focusing for this was done using a macro rail on a tripod, the macro rail moves the camera and lens closer or further away in very small increments by turning a dial...

I did try and remove those hairs but couldn't actually see them with the naked eye...

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I don't think they take anything away from the picture...and you can't remove what you can't see.

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This is Samson.
He has been living in our garage for about a year.
I don't know who he really belongs to, because he never seems to go anywhere.
We feed him, he has a nice bed and toys in the garage...and himself said I was to have no ideas about letting him into the house(especially since we got the kitties)...but I intorduced the kittens to him and Rufus loves him.

Recently, himself said he could come into the house...but Samson does not seem to want to be an indoor cat.
He will come in but only for a few minutes.
He is a lovely cat, but timid and very wary of people he doesn't know.
Yesterday he came in and had a look around the upstairs...sat in the bedroom window and then settled down on our bed for about half an hour(don't worry...I flea treat him too) so I took the opportunity to get some pics of him

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Samson is a really nice looking cat, it was good of you to take him in.
We have always had cats and dogs...we were down to one cat, a ginger one called Royce, he is 16 years old.
The first cat we had came from the local pet shop, I went out to do the shopping on a Friday afternoon, and came back with a beautiful grey kitten. Forgot the shopping only bought kitten food, cheese and a baguette. When I finally pulled up outside the door, my husband came out, where the hell have you been, got a surprise. Is it a microwave, no. face dropped, looked in the boot of the car, where's the shopping? Look on the front seat. He said it was the best thing that ever came into the house.

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Like many of our previous cats...he has sort of adopted us.
He has never been thin, so I think he maybe belonged to one of the folk who rented a house in the street and when they went, theyleft him behind(how could you do a thing like that?).there was a family who moved back to Poland...maybe he was theirs...I really don't know.
I feel that he may scrounge food from the workers at Express gifts, but it does not put a dent in his appetite.

Though himself did not want him to come into the house, he now wants him to come in and toast his flanks in front of the log burner.
Maybe he will do...one day.

Bea, the story of your shopping trip is lovely...something I might do.

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There is a follow on to this story. This shopping trip happened about 30 years ago, we had one daughter, she was about five, she was always going on about having no brothers and sisters and no pets. This is how Misty came into our lives, she was a beautiful cat, she also had kittens, we kept one from the last litter and my husband called him BIFF, now we thought this was an OK name, until our neighbours moved in next door, or through the wall as they would say in Scotland, they came from Whitehaven. We used to shout the cats in for there food, always using there names. It took my new neighbour ages to tell me that every time we shouted BIFF, they couldn't stop laughing. A BIFF in Whitehaven is a POO. I did laugh.
Anyway we have a new grey kitten called George, hope that's not an Accrington name for a POO. Royce is not to happy but is coming around, the dog is fine.

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That made me chuckle.

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A partial walk around Memorial Park Gt. Harwood

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I think Im going to have to get walking again Dave. I've been neglecting my photography apart from odd trips to Angelsey.

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You know, I don't think I've been in that park....

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29th Oct 2017 - Tree Bark

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Walking around the Woodlands C-L-M. and guess what.... its full of trees.

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I don't think I've been to the Woodlands in almost 30 years, my Dad was the Steward at the Top Club around 1988-90ish I guess (they lived just of Devonish Drive - York Close)

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30th Oct 2017 - Light Fitting at Clitheroe Castle

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Its not the same now, the new paths make it a much more interesting walk.

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As it was Halloween, some themed photo's

31st Oct 2017 - Pumpkin Head and Ghost Bride

And a few long exposure Light Trails from Pendle Hill

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1st Nov 2017 - Oakenshaw Weir

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Some others of Oakenshaw Weir....

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Finally decided to have a wander down the cut bank yesterday. Couldn't be bothered carting the heavy stuff about so just took a little bridge camera.
This is one I really like and I think it looks good the wrong way up.2nd one.

Titled "Reflections in the cut". No fancy post editing. Just snaps.

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2nd Nov 2017 - Lone Tree

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3rd Nov 2017 - Light Trails

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4th Nov 2017 - Light Trails Again

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Not so much a tootle more a tootlet around Altham.

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Lovely autumnal shots Dave...nice day for it too

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Thanks, it was getting late when I managed to get out and the sun was low in the sky so lots of shadows.

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5th Nov 2017 - Abstract

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6th Nov 2017 - Views from The Coppice and Peel Park

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They are all great shots, but my favourite is number 1.
Winter would be much easier to bear if we had a few more of that kind of blue sky.
Yes, I know that the head banging low cloud, grey days make us value the blue skies more.

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Not been a great day for photography, however came out of Asda to see that there was a nice sunset in the offing, couldn't get too far so this was from the dual carriage way near Express Gifts in Church.

7th Nov 2017 - Sunset

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Now I like that.
The colours remind me of a very lush ice cream sundae...strawberry and vanilla with chocolate sauce.

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Thanks Margaret, it does pay to always have your camera with you. I was lucky with the flocks of birds at the top, unfortunately the bottom third of the image had a field full of those really big metal shipping containers... so they got cropped and darkened out...

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I like these, especially that 9th image. I've been trying to work out whereabouts in Altham these are.... ??

Always on the lookout for new places to shoot ....

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It was two sites really, one was St Mary's Burial Ground (Burnley Road out of C-L-M.) then across the road to the lane that takes you up to the canal, just passed Silcocks Winter storage site. Park at the top of Bell Lane and you can walk to the sites.

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A dull overcast day up the Coppice.

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Thanks, yes, I know where both those places are, never been but driven past many a time.

Looks like you were in a good spot for the sunset tonight.

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St Marys links up through the field behind with the Millennium Baby Woods, or down the bottom of the lane with the Woodlands. My posterior was a tad cold for the sunset as I was sat on the memorial.

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Thanks Dave, I had a wander up that way today. Parked up on Moorfield Industrial Estate, then along the canal past Fosters Swing Bridge to the Pipe Bridge - as it looked interesting - then back past Silcocks, through the graveyard, down Bell Lane, through the woods to the Woodlands, then back along the canal to where I started. It was getting a bit dark by then...

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8th Nov 2017 - A wander in Altham

1: Moorfield Colliery Disaster Memorial
2-3: Shopping Trolley Graveyard
4: Fosters Swing Bridge
5-6: Pipe Bridge
7: St Mary's Graveyard
8: Broken Wall on the canal that reminded me of a Chinese Dragon head

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Love pic 5

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9th Nov 2017 - Sunset

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10th Nov 2017 - White Stripes

Gingerbread Men Makers on a Black Background with very low ligh.... I used both my Sigma 30mm f1.4 with my EP12 Extension Tube and Canon 105mm f2.8 Macro, one light source, black background.... mostly shot at -2ev between f1.8 - f2.8

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I haven't been on here with a camera for donkeys years, or even a bit longer. Martholme Viaduct.

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Went to watch a steam train at Irwell Vale on the ELR today, this turned up instead.... There were a couple of other toggers there - not unusual - but we all had the same Canon 24-105mm f4L lens, how strange is that...

11th Nov 2017 - Loco 2P42

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I use a Nikon 24-120 f4 on my Full frame cameras as a general walk around lens.
Not been down the East Lancs railway for a while. If they insists on runing smelly diesel locos I wont be hurrying back.

This was a quick snap from the bridge at Ramsbottom which I thought rather atmospheric.

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I was also down on the ELR today - the steam train should have been the City of Wells, who calls a train Trevor???

12th Nov 2017 - C5 Trevor leaving Summerseat

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Martholme Colliery, then onto the railway, very little trace remains of the heavy industry that used to live here.

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This mornings sunrise

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13th Nov 2017 - Martholme Manor

Had a wander up the Martholme Greenway from Mill Lane to the viaduct, last time I came up you couldn't actually walk on the viaduct, but seems to be open now - though the Northern end is still fenced off - but you can at last walk along it's length...

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I took a lot of photos from the viaduct when I helped run the caravan park for a dozen years.
I used to go on from our end to check no cattle had strayed on and to check our barriers and no entry to our end signs were intact.

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14th Nov 2017 - OOF colours and Abstract Glass

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15th Nov 2017 - Light Trails

Buses make for interesting light trails......

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16th Nov 2017 - Abstract Metal

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Great pictures...No 6 is my favourite

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From todays drive

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17th Nov 2017 - My little cat Cali - she helps out when I'm really stuck for an image...

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I really like them pics GP 24 (aircraft, me being an aeroplanist :)), where were they taken?

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RAF coningsby in Lincolnshire. Lots of typhoons about and getting prepped but i only had about half an hour spare and there were only two take offs.


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Thanks for that, will have to have a nose over that way next time I'm across & in the area. :)