Rainbow

A sudden heavy shower, a sudden shaft of sunlight, a sudden, brief rainbow . . . hardly any time to grab the camera . . . high ISO, quick shots. There was a full arc but nowhere to stand to capture all of it at once. And for a few seconds, a faint second bow.

Brandon Marsh (3) - waterfowl

A late afternoon outing with my U3A photo group.

Ducks

Swan

Moorhen

Brandon Marsh (2) - various versions of reed bed images

A late afternoon outing with my U3A photo group.

Brandon Marsh (1) - trees and plants

A late afternoon outing with my U3A photo group.

From the towpath (2)

These images are from the same outing as those in the previous post. One way of dealing with my visual alienation from all that green was to get rid of it!

From the towpath (1)

A morning out with my U3A photography group, only 48 hours after getting home from my trip to the far north (see previous posts here dated between 28 August and 2 September). It was a strange experience, a kind of visual jet-lag! I hadn't got my eye in for all that lush green, for instance, or for landscapes that were so close-in rather than big, wide spaces. It 'should' have been a good outing - a lot of boats moving on the canal, plenty of action, numerous 'good' subjects. Indeed, I took a lot of photos, but later discarded the vast majority of them. Also, I was deeply engrossed in processing the photos from the trip so, even though I was home, my attention was still 'there'. And so these canal images had to wait about three weeks while I finished that work on the photos I'd brought home, and maybe therefore I was inevitably looking at them with a 'foreign' eye.

So, here are a few colour images that survived the discarding. The next post has some monochrome images.

Voyage North - photo essay (28) glaciers in monochrome

A photographer friend who has been looking at these posts, suggested trying the glacier photos in back and white:

They're still very grainy, of course, but grainy-black-and-white is its own genre, in a way! I think the advancing weather front works best, as an image, but they all look quite dramatic. However, what is lost is the change of light following the weather front passing over.

Voyage North - photo essay (27) abstracts in the sea

Patterns of light and shade in and on the sea produce some surprising patterns:

late, low sun on the waves

fjord wall reflection

fjord wall reflection

bow wave

Voyage North - photo essay (26) dockside drama

In addition to the rope work, shown in the previous post, other events occurred dockside. Just as we were leaving Longyearbyen, after we had un-moored and had started to move away, this little drama was playing out on the quay:

there's something in the water

can we get down there?

 

can we reach it?

ah, it's a dropped walkie-talkie

can we hook it up?

call for reinforcements

someone taller

there it is . . . 

But we were sailing away and never saw the end of the story!