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Photography
Sunset over Dunbar
The view from our tent. Worth all the rain for this.
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Broken
This is a window at a client’s office.
Over 11 years ago I photographed this windows, on film for use in a course I was running on black and white photography, film developing and printing.
The window was broken then – with the same crack!
Lightweight Camping
I took a few days off from work this week to try out some of my light weight kit – which eventually will make up the kit I will use on future backpacking trips.
Although I had the car I limited what I took. It gave me a chance to try the tent, food ideas and stoves I plan to use. I probably will not be carrying the folding stool on my backpacking trips.
The tent is a bit heavy for backpacking – but at £17.50 in a sale the price was right. It weighed 2.5kgs but by changing the steel pegs with titanium ones and not using the stuff sacks the weight drops to under 2kgs. It is also large enough for two (at a squeeze with rucksacks) but for one it gives that extra bit of space and comfort. I can sit up in it and cook outside the door easily or look at view whilst drinking tea. The window panels in the fly sheet doors adds some weight but this allows you to look out at the view even when it is raining!
I camped at the Camping and Caravan Club site on the outskirts of Scarborough. It is well placed so I could just walk out to the cliff top footpath, without having to use the car.
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IPhone Camera Sample Image
River Ness – iPhone 4 photo cropped but no other processing. I used the Camera+ app (here) rater than the built in camera. The Camera+ offers lots of features but one of the best is the way it holds the images on the “Lightbox” and from there you choose to save or delete them – it is a good way of getting rid of the rubbish shots before committing them to the iPhone Camera Roll.
However the quality of this image is not as good as I would have hoped for (I did check out online examples of iPhone 4 photos before buting the phone) – so I will try the built in camera for the next shots.
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Coast to Coast Photos
Originally uploaded by Clive_lincs
Day 12 – Finished
Here is the photo we worked for – all three of us with our feet in the North Sea at Robin ood’s Bay.
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Photos at last – Coast to Coast Walk
I finally got around to sorting out my photographs I took whilst walking from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire. See our blog here http://www.octagontech.com/category/coast-to-coast/. I didn’t carry my Canon Powershot S2 IS with me every day – I heeded the warning we were given on Day 2 when we were soaked through walking from and the camera case had let water through and although the camera was damp it suffered no damage after carefully drying it. On bad weather days I used the perfectly functional camera on my Blackberry Curve for snapping the journey. However if you carry your camera with you in the bad weather see what happens here http://www.rkwinternet.com/category/coast-to-coast-walk/ – however the insurancecovered the loss and Richard now has a new camera. Richard has also posted an epilogue to the walk – I have also written about the experience and plan to post it in sections whilst I am away on my next holiday, when I have time to proof read the entries.
Here is a picture of my new boots in the sea at St Bees – taken on my Blackberry – http://www.flickr.com/photos/clivecphotos/2586254243/. As a camera phone this is the first one I have been satisfied with.
For Coast to Coast photos look here at my Flickr set
For more photos www.clivecatton.co.uk
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