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He did, he was very specific, he said stop talking to yourself people are starting to stare.

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A super collection of shots - I can't pick a favourite as they're all great :)

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A short stroll around Entwistle Reservoir this morning.The water level is now going over the overflow.

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What a beautiful area! It always tickles me to see Canada geese in the uk.

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One of Max's favourite walks. It can be linked to do a figure of 8 walk with Wayoh Reservoir

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No.8 is a stunner :)

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No time for photos today, so here`s a few more night pics from earlier this week. Could have done with a tripod for some of these.

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I really like the one of the church - the stonework shows up so nicely!

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A wander down into Callao Selvaje and the beach this afternoon where they were playing Petanque. Had a tonic water in the new beach bar - great views. Then on my way home I spotted 3 paragliders who landed down on the beach. The map of the Canaries, with Tenerife and Teide in relief above the islands, is on the side wall of a house and the statue is on a nearby roundabout -both in the residential area called "Sueno Azul" or Blue dream. Dark clouds inland over the mountains today but was a glorious sunny day here on the coast -had a long swim in the pool in the morning, gammon for a late brunch and now an evening of TV with "Strictly" etc to end a perfect Sunday!

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Today in Pictures, it was a muggy cold day, not very interesting photography wise.

1. For some reason that hump is called Legolass Hill.
2. Visibility is not very good.
3. Back at my jetty again.
4. Round the top end of Upper Dean Clough Reservoir.
5. Looking down the length of the reservoirs and off into the mist.
6. It is not a very colourful time of year, but there is always something giving it a go.
7. I'm just mooching at this point.
8. It seems like ages since the sheep were getting some shade under this tree.
9. Round the bottom of the reservoir and back to the car.

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Love number five and the name of the hill in number one is very interesting as Legolas is the name of one of the elves who is part of Tolkein's Fellowship of the Ring

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Today, a trip to Barnsley and back.

1. The view over the moors.
2. Not sure what that is.
3. Ashworth Moor Reservoir.
4. Owd Betts.
5. Presumably Ashworth Moor.
6 & 7. Man and dog working together, well the dog was doing all the work.
8 - 10. I could have watched this beauty all day, he/she was having none of it though and flew off over the moors.

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Love the bird shots

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Around Dunnockshaw today

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Thanks, first time I`ve been able to get pics of a wild bird of prey.

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Today in Pictures, a short walk around Hameldon Woods, but a walk on the wet side.

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Super shots - I really like No.1. Well done capturing the hawk in flight! Do you know what species it is?

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That's a really nice reflection shot. Max is looking good!

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Stone walls, moss and wet bits! You must have been in your element :)

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I went all giddy, not knowing which to photograph first.

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My thoughts exactly! :)

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I believe it`s a kestrel.

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definatly a kestrel

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Thanks, wouldn`t have known myself, but was told by a few people that it is a kestrel.

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Today in Pictures, another overcast day as we walked down to the river. After arriving at Cock Bridge we turned around and headed back up the hill

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A look round the center of San Blas again today - all geared for the British tourist. Hardest decisions of the day - where to have your "full English" at lunchtime and where you get the best deal for the Happy Hour- will it be "Nutters", "Scruffy Macs" or the Sport's Bar with giant sreen TV... You can't fail to notice you're on the final leg of the flight path for landing planes but as a whole it's a great place for picking up a bargain or the odd souvenir and it's all kept very neat and tidy with the odd thing that reminds you you are actually in Spain!

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hi their I'm new to the site i was just looking at the pictures which brought home some fond memerys of lancashire as i no-longer live in the area having been away for 30 yrs your photos are good thank you
denise

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Some lovely dramatic skies there.

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Welcome!

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Nice capture of the plane in 4!

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Welcome to the site, and the thread, perhaps when you get the hang of the site you could upload a few pictures of your area.

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Welcome Denise! :)

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Lol! They pass over pretty regularly as the runway is about 200m away from the town -so you never have long to wait to capture one! You don't acually hear them much as they're cruising in at that point and are ready for touchdown...

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Still won't let me give you Karma Dave! I love the peace of number two - idyllic pastoral scene -very recogniseable as being Lankyshire countryside.

Lovely set of photos -looks like it was a nice walk. I like the photo of Cock Bridge too - similar to an old postcard Gary just found and posted. :)

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Welcome to the best part of Accyweb

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No problem, the walk is one on my regular walks, I enjoy it because there are plenty of wet bits on the way down, then the River Calder at the bottom.

Just checked out Gary's photo, same location but on the opposite bank, never been on that side, I think its fenced off now.

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Last set of pics from Tenerife for now - returning home to Italy tomorrow. Two shots of yesterday's sunset and some from the fish restaurant in La Caleta this aft. Delicious fish soup followed by grilled sardines - you can tell how good they were by what was left after! I'm the one pulling a funny face as usual!

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Nice red skies, I hope you are refreshed from your time in the sun.

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We took a little drive today, about 120 km south west from my home. The landscape was quite different - flat and very little snow. It's prime fruit growing and winery country, and I managed to take a couple of snaps from the car. I must go back when the grapes, cherries, peaches etc. are ripe for the eating, and a wine tasting tour would be nice too - in a few months time. The old house would have been perfect for the latest photo competition!

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Gorgeous sunset, especially in #1. That fish soup looks yummy to me, but the sardines with their little eyes... not so much Hah hah. Glad you enjoyed them, though!

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What a cracking photo of the house.

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Today in Pictures is actually a few snaps taken over the last few days.

1. I do like a lichen, taken in the woodlands behind Wilson's Playing Field.
2. Still in the woodlands, how they survive on a branch is puzzling.
3. I'm not supposed to climb trees.
4. Moss in Mercer Park.
5. The lane up to Foster Swing Bridge.
6. Memorial, Mercer Park.
7. Top of Bell Lane, at the junction with Burnley Road.
8. View behind St Mary's Burial Ground, Pendle in the distance.
9. Foster Swing Bridge is just yards away, and the canal is inches behind me, one false move.............................................. ....:bingobang.......................:help:

10. It's a gear here. I though shall I give it a crank, then I remembered what the policeman said last time.

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While technically not all from today (with the exception of the Schüttorf pics more sort of over several days ..... well you've got to make it worth the effort! :)) a few recent snaps to share with you all.

Two from Wednesday after the storm so to speak - Schüttorf Market square - Close up of the "Old woman & her goats" - "Firlefanz" Pub, Fred & Marion - The Grimlin getting comfy (again).

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Love the Red skies Dave

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Aye Frank, they were pretty extreme hence the photies, not seen skies like that for a while.

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Today in Pictures, I overslept this morning, and the day has been on catch up ever since. the Coppice under heavy skies.

1. Start point, a look across the town.
2. I have no idea what the stones were part of.
3. The clouds are banging into the top off Pendle.
4. I am beginning to think I might get wet.
5. I remember this when the Hardy family were the farmers here.
6. It will go septic if you scratch yourself here.
7. What do you mean "it makes you want to wee".
8. And then you come across this, it sounds like the start of a joke, bags of self raising flour, just dumped over the edge into the steam.
9. Then something to make you giddy.
10. Not much remains of Plantation Mill, just bits of walls covered in moss.

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Great pics Dave , we haven't been up that way for a while. We prefer to walk up Sandy Lane now through Spire Farm and down past Higher Brox Farm to the back of the college field. There use to be stone on the top of the walls in no 8. It didn't take long for some mother's little darling to rip them off . About two days after it was built

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That's the down side of easy access, they have obviously driven a van or wagon up there to dump all this stuff. But it's all flour which is a bit job specific, and in quantities that only professionals would use. So we are looking for fly tippers with very floury faces.

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The old Imperial Mill,probably one of my best explores to date. ;)

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When I went passed it looked like one of the floors was still occupied by an engineering firm. Although outside it was littered with redundant machinery.

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Lancashire Saw Company own Imperial Mill and operate from there.They are mainly on the first floor

www.lancashiresaw.co.uk

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A walk along the canal, through the woodlands, Gt. Harwood then back home.

1-5. A selection of birds.
6. Wilsons playing fields.
7. Duke in the woodlands.
8. Flying off into the sunset.
9. The fishing lake behind Park View garden centre.
10. A milky wet bit.

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I love refection pics no 9 is a cracker

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A few from our walk this morning
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Thanks, seen that lake loads of times walking along the road, but never went this close to it before. It was nice and peaceful.

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Today in Pictures, a walk on the flat today, the canal, Cut Lane to Whitebirk, or to be specific the Rocket Centre.

1. Bottom end of Cut Lane.
2. So there I am snapping Pendle, this punnet of Gulls descended and scooped something from the canal and then vanished.
3. Some very sculptured clouds today.
4. Time for a thistle.
5. Just time for a bit of grass.
6. Clouds in action.
7. Pylons and in the distance, wind turbines.
8. Now heading back.
9. These clouds are getting on my nerves now.

That concludes two weeks of using my camera on the Aperture priority mode, sort of a test to see if I could manage without using the automatic mode.
Now a new test awaits, I shall be shooting for the next couple of the weeks in the RAW mode, I don't know if its warm enough for being in the nude .........I know just jesting. I have switched the RAW mode on the camera, and a big learning curve awaits, so not sure what type of output I will manage, but as I always say "He who laughs last is worth two in the bush.

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Lots more editing options in RAW as i`m sure you already know, I have a RAW+JPEG option which I`ve been using, I have very rarely used the RAW files but they are there if they are needed.

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heres a photo competition ...

Capture the Cathedral 2014 - Manchester Cathedral

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The RAW files are a lot bigger as they capture all the information but don't make a picture, whereas JPEG's are compressed in the camera, white balanced and sharpened, plus a bit of colour correction, then turned into a picture in the camera.
Professionals recommend using RAW but I have backed off as it looked too complicated for me, I have Paintshop pro, and that looked complicated as well.
However I have been studying at the university of "You Tube" and decided to stretch myself a little bit. I may run out of the room screaming when I try to do it, but I have been shooting in Aperture priority for a fortnight and understand a little bit about shutter speed and ISO settings.
It's just a hobby when all is said and done and this helps to keep the interest there.

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Aperture priority is my main weapon of choice also.
My RAW files are 20MB each and my hard drive is quickly filling up, I`m going to have to start deleting some of the older ones.
Not used paintshop, but the past couple of months I`ve been delving into photoshop, it was a lot to take in at first but I`m glad I`ve stuck with it. I try to learn a couple of new things a week, there are some brilliant things you can do with editing.
This week it`s "perspective correction" & "content aware scale":eek:

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Great pics Dave Love the birds in flight and reflections.When I take my DSLR out I shoot in Raw but my other camera hasn't got the option.

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I have all that to come, as I have never processed a picture through it yet, it will be a big learning curve, so don't expect much from me next week, or perhaps up to bonfire night.

Its not the shooting in RAW that I have to learn, or even converting them to JPEG, its that step in between where you have to process the picture, in my case in Paintshop Pro. I have very quickly tried taking a RAW picture, and then converting it straight to a JPEG without touching the image, Photoscape will do that, but I am in the dark with that middle bit.

Those birds got in the way I was snapping Pendle and they just descended and dived at something in the water, I almost put my camera down to wait for them to go until it occurred to me to take a photo.

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Dave I commend your approach. I wish I were brave enough to learn such things......I was once. Nowadays I really worry when there is a concept I think I understand and then I fall at the practical fence...it makes me feel a bit thick...and I don't like that feeling. There are enough people in the world who want me to believe I am losing my marbles as it is!

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I have to admit I am jumping in with both feet and haven't a clue what I am doing at this side of the operation, but it makes it a bit more interesting.

I find this man can explain things to me at my level and have watched all of his videos, I am now on my second viewing, as things don't sink in on the first viewing. Mike Browne - YouTube

Sometimes it has it's advantages letting people believe that marbles are lost.

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He`s got it all wrong, wet T-Shirts need to be white, you may as well not bother if she`s wearing black.:D

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I don't think it matters as she takes it off at the end............................................... .................................................. ............no she doesn't.

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Yes...I have seen Ma use that ploy to very good advantage :)

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Today in RAW, at this point I am not impressed with shooting in RAW it has taken me twice as long to process, and the results at this stage in my learning curve are no better.

1. Starting in Oak Hill Park.
2. just time for a bloom.
3. And a berry.
4. I'm just messing at this point.
5. Last one in O.H.P.
6. In the rose garden at Haworth Park.
7. And there it is.
8. From the side.
9. You wouldn't want that on the end of your nose.
10. It's a SPYn tree.

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What do you use to process,Dave?

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I am using Paintshop Pro X5. and then resizing in Photoscape. The paintshop program is a bit on the complicated side, or at least it is at the moment, I am hoping with a bit of use it will become less of a muddle.

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Don`t really see any advantage using RAW on my pics either, mostly I edit the JPEG.
The main reason I save as RAW as well is if I fancy a dabble at HDR.

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They all end up as JPEG's in order to view them, the videos I have watched on the subject say RAW is better as it captures more information and as a result can be manipulated to correct any over or under exposure. It may be that I revert back to JPEG's but at this stage I am giving it a go just to see if there is any change in the quality of the end result. My view today is that its a bit of a faff.

HDR, now that is a whole new ball game, combining three or more bracketed shot to give one perfectly exposed photo, my view is sometimes it can be a bit chocolate boxy, now and again I see one that works, but can be a bit overdone.

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I am experimenting with RAW but shooting in RAW and JPEG I've still got to be fully convinced that RAW is better. Yesterday's few pics were shot in RAW

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These are the few I took yesterday in RAW.

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I agree there are a lot overdone, but if you have the RAW image, you can make the three images from one file by altering the exposure, not as good as taking three, but as an afterthought when you didn`t think at the time to do it as an HDR it can be handy.

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Lovely horse pic.

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Thank You.He was in the middle of the field.I couldn't go too near him as Max is not too happy being near horses

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Nice shots, RAW or no!

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4 more for my quota today. We decided to go to Gargrave this afternoon.
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Have enjoyed catching up -wonderful selection of photos from everyone. Am back in Italy -still hampered by no internet at home -writing this furtively in the office :D After several days of solid torrential rain it has finally come out nice. Have taken some shots of the aftermath of the rain which I hope to post eventually. In the meantime -keep snapping, I'll pop on when I can to have a look at your latest works of art! x

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Not fond of HDR pics...they look 'manufactured'...unnatural.....though I do have an app(I never thought I would use that word) on my iPad that transforms pics to HDR......and you can make them as subtle or unsubtle as you want.

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Gorgeous shot of the swan.

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Aaarrggghhhhh:mad: No pic. There was a snowy owl, a beauty, sitting on top of my garage ... went to get a camera, and when I came back it had gone. Bummer; what a gorgeous creature.

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The Swan is really striking, nice one Frank. :)

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A few from today.

1. A squirrel.
2-5. A few more birds.
6. Holmes Chapel viaduct.
7. Jodrell Bank.

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Isn't it always the way? Done that myself.

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I love the bird shots!

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Thanks Turtle, I like photographing birds.

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Your shot number 2,liked it a lot.

The RSPB: Long-tailed tit

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Thanks, I got a few of that one, but they weren`t very clear, it was up and around the branches, upside down, it was difficult to get a clear shot.

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I think what happens is when people get bitten by the HDR bug they tend to go over the top and do everything that way, and some are not the right subject for that technique. Although I have seen some HDR's that I like, they are in the minority.
Having said that, everyone has their own slant on photography and its not for me to sit in judgement as to what technique anyone should use.

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I love bird pics.

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Me to, any wildlife/animals really.

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Max is correct,Lancashire Saw Company occupies the ground floor (the rest is empty).

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Tommy Holden recently retired from there
Blackburn saw firm worker Tommy retires at ripe old age of 94 (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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I have been in that lock myself frank, brought back memories of the joiner who kept falling down the sump hole every time he went down there. We even put a shovel in it so he would know where it was and he tripped over that:D:D

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Picture one is Jess the horse , and the one looking at the spire shows the pointing off on the leafield which i did:mosher::)

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Today in Pictures a few from the last few days, been playing with and learning different types of software, and this distracted me a bit.

1. This is today, a quick walk on the canal,today is a shampoo, cut and set for my four legged friend.
2. approaching Riley's Swing Bridge.
3. to 5. Were taken on a walk around Huncoat Colliery site a couple of days ago.

Whilst waiting for the shampoo and set to be undertaken I visited the Haworth Art Gallery, there is a photographic exhibition by The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain, I know, its a big title. If you are interested it finishes on Saturday, and this is the only remaining day you can view as it is closed on Friday, (just this Friday).
The most striking thing that struck me was that each and every picture had been manipulated to a greater or lesser degree. Some to such an amount that they looked more like paintings than pictures, but some very interesting photographs. None were pictures that you could say were right out of the camera.
I went around twice as it was a lot to take in on one viewing.

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Today in Pictures, just a quick mooch around Lower Barnes Street, I only had 20 minutes so nothing exciting today..

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1 & 2 are perfect for a B&W conversion.

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Never mind "nothing exciting" - they are interesting pics. I especially like the mossy wall in 1, and the tree in 5 and 6. I envy you the lack of snow!