Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.

In The Eye Of The Beholder

by admin - 15:48 on 03 January 2013

For Day Three of my January Snapathon I took the bold decision to remove the 50-300mm zoom from the Pentax, replace it with the 18-55 and go in search of something close-up. I found it in the ruined steading that's a short walk from The Rural Retreat.

I'd gone there with nothing in mind but expected to return with snaps of rural decrepitude, mellow stonework and general junk. That may happen in the future, for I found a couple of scenes that might work well when the light hits them at a decent angle, but today my eye was caught by the very weathered cover on one of the boarded-up windows.

Much snappery ensued, most of which was binned when seen on the Mac, but two images jumped out when I rotated the original ninety degrees in one case and one-hundred-and-eighty in the other.

The Spider King is what I see in this one, or possibly an Aztec emperor – what that says of me if this were a Rorschach test I dread to think. Apart from rotation, the only Photoshoppery involved lightening with Levels and a bit of cropping. The face is a knot.

The second image is Incoming Tide. This wasn't even cropped – just rotated and lightened.

Both of these please me more than the world-famous crestie (I got an email from Rio last night; views have passed 2,500, although they're slowing) because they're original and they're mine. I've not tried printing them yet but I hope for good results.

Anyone who fears that this means the end of kitten snappery shouldn't worry – two new studies of The Fearless Ones were taken yesterday evening. Don't be fooled by their innocence. Muffled squeaks last night announced that Pandora had overcome the cardboard blockade to become trapped behind the freezer after we'd gone to bed. Willow watched with amusement as her sister was freed.

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