Maintain An Orderly Arrangement

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... And some other photos from a walk on Christmas day, after the jump.
A bit of a weird day in some ways. Lots of thoughts of those we can't be with, whether temporarily or permanently.
The weather was remarkably pleasant though!

21-09-09: Only One Cloud In The Sky

As far as I can see, anyway!
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19-09-09: Feeding the Masses

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18-09-09: Green Patches

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17-09-09:

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16-09-09: Berries

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15-09-09: Roof 2/2

Boots Library roof.
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14-09-09: Roof 1/2

Boots Library roof
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13-09-09: Barbed Newton

Particularly evil-looking razor wire round the NTU Newton/Arkwright site.
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12-09-09: Open Gate

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27-08-09: Dovedale

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26-08-09: Tree/Sheep

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14-08-09: The Tree That Grows Sideways...

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13-08-09:

I'd recommend viewing the bigger version, so you can actually see some detail :)
Made from 14 vertical images with a fairly hefty overlap, stitched in Photoshop's automated stitcher and tidied up by hand.
The reason for the large number of images was to avoid problems with lens distortion and to counter any oddities caused by shooting handheld; I could easily discard every other image and still have a continuous picture.
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12-08-09: Ilam Church

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11-08-09: Flow

Dovedale, Derbyshire.
I deliberately didn't adjust the polariser to it's maximum effect for this one, as it would have virtually erased the flow lines which are defined by the reflection of the sky. It's about 1/4 of the way from it's full effect here.
I find it easy to consider something like a polariser as either on or off, forgetting that it's analog - in reality some of the more interesting effects are achieved somewhere between on and off...
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10-08-09: Outcrop

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09-05-09: Horse Chestnut Leaf

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03-04-09: Polarised Hub

The hub of a CD jewel case lit by polarised light from an LCD monitor. A polariser filter enhances the effect, and allows you to vary the colour and pattern as you rotate it.
The colours are caused by internal stresses in the plastic, caused by the injection moulding process.

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