The English Summer…
…Sunshine and Rain
August 22nd 2008 and the mid-afternoon sun is about to be banished by incoming clouds from the north east – time, me thinks, to hurry home!
29 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer”
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Very dramatic! Interesting treatment..
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Thank you – HDR to bring out the clouds. They weren’t much less dramatic in reality… See : –
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/931978 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/931981
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Amazing share, Martin. Moving the screen up and down makes the turquoise doors come alive! 😀
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LoL – that’s the polarising effect of the anti-glare screen Nancy 🙂
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Extraordinary picture, Martin! Love the light. The beginning of a novel if ever I saw one…
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Thanks Kate 🙂 You may have to write it… my attentions span isn’t long enough for such works 😉
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Love the drama!
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A Little of life’s rich panoply 🙂 Thanks for passing through 🙂
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I couldn’t believe the colors. So I’m glad you included the links for Rebekah —
Lo and behold! There they are, those lurid building doors, ad the even more lurid storm clouds. You’re sure this is England?
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Judith – It was England when I last looked…In fact it’s within a 10 minute walk from my home! But I might have been a bit drunk at the time 😉 Then again, the camera never lies unless we encourage it to produce half-truths!
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Beautiful picture Martin. 🙂 I would love to enjoy the English Summer. I hope I can do that some day. Great post. 🙂
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Thanks Arindam – We’re having a very hot week (by English Spring standards) – 28 degrees in the shade with the threat of heavy thunderstorms tonight. Just got back from a local walk with my Cub Pack, so glad of a cold drink and a few minutes in front of the computer.
I hope you are able to fulfil your wish of sampling an English Summer. A couple of my developers are off-shore (in Kolkata) some of the time and then come here for specific pieces of work. I’ll have to ask them what they make of the English summer 😉
Thanks for the kind comment 🙂
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love this image and how you have brought it to life with the effects
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Thanks Jo – HDR gives lots of artistic opportunities as well as the chance to bring out shadow detail in difficult lighting situations.
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Sorry, gave you wrong link, here’s the right one http://jullianeford.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/i-got-tagged-11-questions/
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Hi Julliane – thank you for considering me for this. I’m sorry, but I’m trying to avoid awards / tag posts as I am struggling just to keep up with the normal day to day posts that I want to do – hence my Award Free Blog icon in the side menu. It was very kind of you to think of me but I won’t be able to participate – I’ll meet you half way though and answer your questions, since I’ve answered a couple already in the recent past 🙂
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nice colours
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Thank you Amar 🙂
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What an intereting picture. Looks like a drawing and a photograph simultaneously.
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Thank you – the lines are highlighted by using the HDR process with careful sharpening afterwards.
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The English Summer is looking incredible, Martin!
The HDR compliments that wild sky and brilliant colors so well!
Awesome!
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Thank you Bob – I was pleased with how the process really brought out the wildness of the sky. It’s something that can be very difficult to achieve with a camera on a single exposure but using HDR allows us to blend several exposures to achieve something closer to what the eye can see. Of course, painters have been doing this for centuries!
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I love the sweet, Gothic look to this image with the urban / pastoral idyll !
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Thank you Patti – for those who were wondering, the small building with the green doors is an electricity substation.
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Looks very ominous! Great photo!
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Thanks Fergiemoto – I just about got home in time 😉
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Stunning image. The colors and textures are simply amazing!
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Thank you – The combined power of Weather and HDR 🙂
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