Walking and Camping Photos The Viking Way

It has been an great weekend for the weather, I was sitting by the lake at the campsite until late last night and only needed to use my down sleeping bag as a quilt overnight a big difference from the Peak District trip last weekend.

Photos

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I carried a tin of food rather than a dehydrated meal – the extra weight was worth it – tasty “Lamb Big Soup “

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Walking – The Viking Way

With the end if the summer camping season rapidly approaching, and with the next two weekends booked with a server change over for a client, I have planned a short backing trip to the regular Camping and Caravan Club site near Woodhall Spa using the Viking Way.

This is also a busy weekend as I have to finish a proposal for a client to provide an integrated email solution between an office in the UK and locations in Southern Africa both in the cities and in more remote places – so using our cloud server I am planning to work that this evening on my iPhone.

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morning coffee at the ruins of Barlings Abbey

The Viking Way

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This sign is not as accurate as it could be – it looks like the path follows the line of the hedge, when actually the path is marked and heads across the middle of the field.

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the sign is at the junction shown in the map clip as you approach the abbey ruins from Fiskerton

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the path is very distinct when looking back

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The Bell at Coleby

This morning I was at The Bell at Coleby helping them get to grips with some software they are using.

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Their beer garden has a great selection of very photographic objects, making it easier for me to find a photo of the day.

This photograph was taken with the latest version of Camera+, cropped in the app’s Lightbox and then the light was lifted with the Clarify filter.

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Ready for iOS 7 – Camera+

This post is about Camera+, but I need to start by talking about the WordPress app.

It seems that every time I turn my iPhone on apps want to update to “ready for iOS 7”. This has to be a good thing – unless they make a mistake see here. The look and feel of the new WordPress app is good, but some mistakes have crept in, I have found a missing button and as I am writing this post, add a link does not display well in horizontal mode. As I write most of my blog, on my iPhone with this app I hope they fix it soon.

Camera+

The developers of Camera+ have also released an update – ready for the updated iOS – plus adding some great new features.

I used to use Camera+ as my main iPhone camera but a couple of updates back (when I had my iPhone 4) it really slowed down, so I stopped using it and switched to the iPhone camera app, which improved greatly when I later switched to an iPhone 5.

I still used the image editor, Light Box, included with Camera+. I particularly like the Clarify function and the Golden Section crop option.

The new Camera+ offers a couple of new options I want in a camera app.

Quick access to a square format image. I often crop my photos to a square, I like the influence a square frame has on my images. Now I can see the effect, in the camera, as I take the photograph.

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a screen capture of Camera+ app showing the square format

The second feature I like is the exposure compensation control. I can now add and take away the exposure in 1/3 stops, just like I could on my real cameras. The results of this manipulation can be seen on the screen before the photo is taken.

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a screen capture showing the ev control, right under my thumb

I am looking forward to using this updated Camera+ app and it looks like it will go back to being my “go to” camera app.

For more details about Canera+, visit the website here.

If you are going to update to iOS 7, make sure you read this article on Mashable – click here.

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