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Sunday’s photo

28 November 2021 / Photography / black and white, Photos 2021, snow

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Rain on the shed

27 November 2021 / Photography / black and white, composition, iPhone camera apps, iPhone photography, John Hedgecoe, photography, Photos 2021, silvertone, The Shed

There is no chance today to get out for a walk – I have collected some twigs and sticks, dried them out and was going to test my twig stove with them today, soot, smoke everything. But there is too much rain.

I have been reading a John Hedgecoe photography book, all film no digital it is that old, but it is still relevant, just looking at his photos helps with mine.

I wanted to expand my black and white techniques and manipulating contrast. Here is one of the results.

Rain on a shed wall Silverstone image — Silvertone rather than straight B&W with increased contrast to bringing out the rain drops.

The Silverstone comes from an iOS camera app filter.

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Walking today

26 November 2021 / Walking / black and white, coffee, food, iPhone photography, Kirkby Green, lightweight walking, Lincolnshire, outdoor gear, photography, Photos 2021, walking

The route I took today was out near Kirkby Green.

I found a spot out of the wind – after the rain stopped – for lunch. Tinned mushroom soup, buttered sourdough bread and coffee. The smoke was because I used some hexamine solid fuel tablets to heat the soup and water, but once I used them I remembered why they we still in my fuel box several years after I had bought them.

Compared to the Fire Dragon gel fuel the hexamine tablets gave off pungent fumes and left a sooty residue on the mugs and stove. OK for a standby, lasts forever, fuel but not for everyday use anymore. The British Army used it for years and the first outdoors stove I bought when I was at school, from the military surplus department in Millers of Grays, was an army folding cooker which included eight large blocks of hexamine.