Today in pictures

[davemac]

Originally Posted by JCB

This is one I took a few years back of Hagg Lodge . I was quite chuffed with it , but not a patch on yours .

Do you recognize anyone in the second photo ?

Theres nowt wrong with the reflective photo.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Yesterday I saw this abandoned house at the side of a busy road. It must have been a grand farm house in its day. Now it sits waiting for the wrecking ball. So sad. The owners must have enjoyed sitting on the veranda watching the setting sun, overlooking their land. That tree must have been planted when the house was first built - it seems to have grown to be part of the house. Inspired by Dave Mac and Margaret P. I tried a bit of B&W and texturizing. Lots of fun!

What a shame to knock down a brick built house, unless the tree roots are lifting the foundations.
Nice to see a bit of experimentation, you should have a word with Mrs. P. about black and white with a bit of colour highlighting, she has an eye for that sort of thing.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

this one -
Katharine, Duchess of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well done! It had me stumped

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by davemac

What a shame to knock down a brick built house, unless the tree roots are lifting the foundations.
Nice to see a bit of experimentation, you should have a word with Mrs. P. about black and white with a bit of colour highlighting, she has an eye for that sort of thing.

It is truly a shame to knock down such a good house. Just rampant development - trashing everything thats interesting and good to make way for horrible suburbs and highways. It really gets my blood boiling! Oops, sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave there are some of those pics which are in colour, but would convert to monochrome on photoscape.... Number 7 would ( I think) be stunning in mono...number 8 too.
I would continue shooting in colour and convert them to mono on photoscape....that way you have two pictures with different artistic merits.

Hi Margaret, is the Photoscape you use available for the iPad? If so I'd like to give it a try. I did a quick search of the App Store, and there is something with that name, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I'm not sure.....I have mine on the desktop(I know it is old fashioned to have a desk top but I really do most of the stuff on that).
I have Aviary and Snapseed on my iPad......they are good but don't do everything that photoscape does.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I'm not sure.....I have mine on the desktop(I know it is old fashioned to have a desk top but I really do most of the stuff on that).
I have Aviary and Snapseed on my iPad......they are good but don't do everything that photoscape does.

Thanks Margaret, I'll keep looking. You're not old fashioned at all - I only use my iPad so much as I do because Hubby is always on the desktop with his writing project.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't think it is the same program......it certainly doesn't look to have anything like the same functions and it gets very poor reviews.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't think it is the same program......it certainly doesn't look to have anything like the same functions and it gets very poor reviews.

Thank you, that was my impression also. Just thought our versions over here weren't as good as yours.

[JCB]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

this one -
Katharine, Duchess of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well done .

I snapped her while she was talking to my newly-married cousin and her husband down in Dorchester-on-Thames the day after their wedding .

[susie123]

Originally Posted by JCB

This is one I took a few years back of Hagg Lodge . I was quite chuffed with it , but not a patch on yours .

Gosh you wouldn't think Asda was just next door - if I'm thinking of the right stretch of water that is!

[JCB]

Originally Posted by susie123

Gosh you wouldn't think Asda was just next door - if I'm thinking of the right stretch of water that is!

Yes , next door to Asda .

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a walk down Mill Lane then a left turn, a left turn I have never taken before.

1. Down Mill Lane, this is the River Hyndburn just before it joins the Calder.
2. Mill Lane goes right up the other side.
3. At the top, Mill Lane joins Clayton Hall Drive........I didn't know that.
4. This is the world famous Jam Jar window, unless you have never heard of it before....then it isn't. This has been here over twenty years as I know of, and possibly a lot longer, and is made from.........you guessed it........jam jars.
5. There is a small hamlet of houses, just short of Burnley Road, Altham.
6. It is indicated that this is a footpath, so time to get down and dirty.
7. It is at this point I am not sure just where my location is.
8. Eventually we end up in the middle of a field, with visibility getting less and my lens getting covered in rain.
9. Just to counterbalance the turbine shot, pylons emerging from the mist.
10. At last a landmark I recognise, the sewage works, so from this point I just follow my nose.

[maxthecollie]

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today we went to Bank Newton. I've tried some in monochrome.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

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today we went to Bank Newton. I've tried some in monochrome.

I don't know Bank Newton, but nice reflections, a competition comes along about reflections and all of a sudden there are that many they can't all be entered.