Warton Crag
This afternoon I walked out to Warton Crag and quarry.
Warton Quarry
There was a custom built coffee spot.
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A Few Minutes after Midnight
This is the start of year eleven of “a photo a day” and I thought I would go back to the beginning.
There are house decorations that were not there in the original – but you can see the changes in the technology between my iPhone 4 and 12 Max Pro.
Many of the New Year’s Day photos have been of the London fireworks on the TV, so let’s have that as well.
With Diana’s and my Father Christmas’s.
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Rain on 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.
The Silverstone comes from an iOS camera app filter.
Walking today
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.
Last day of my leave
Although I had to work yesterday and this morning – today is officially my last day off.
I thought a walk along the disused Sleaford Canal and coffee in the autumn sun was a good plan for the day.
One useful bit of kit I do not mention is the fold-up stool. The steel and canvas construction is strong and it comes with a canvas sleeve that makes it easier to pack. It is heavier than an aluminium equivalent but this stool is more compact and stronger.
Having a comfortable seat for my breaks, easily makes up for the extra weight carried.
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More photos from my recent trip to Wales
Near Machynlleth
A beach near Aberdovey
Wales Coastal Path – Plas Talgarth
Rain and fog
Today’s food – spam
Aberdovey
Glasdir
Glasdir Copper Works
Back to Aberdovey beach
Plas Talgarth
Furnace
Furnace Falls
Machynlleth Hills
On the way home
Near Llangollen
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