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    Llangollen Heavy Hoar Frost!

    in Archived weather photography area

    Posted · Edited by 03jtrickey

    Gorgeous pictures, it was similar today down in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. In October I cycled up that way from Cheltenham, as far as the beautiful Pistyll Rhaeadr in the Berwyns; I imagine that would be looking stunning at the moment!

    I took a few pictures with a phone camera today, annoyingly I didn't have my proper camera: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/315686...d3627e77f_o.jpg

    Enhancing Photo's

    in Photography Equipment / Hints and tips

    Posted · Edited by 03jtrickey

    I am a regular user of Flickr, and enjoy photography. I just have an old point and shoot but it's a good hobby all the same and combines well with my love of the outdoors.

    I have to say, most of my pictures are left as taken and rarely do I wildly edit an image. Occasionally I will bump up or down the saturation and contrast/brightness but with the intention of making the picture look closer to the reality. Obviously, black and white photographs are an exception.

    My most heavily edited picture is in fact my most recent one, taken on May Hill. I changed it to Black and White but also cloned out two trees on the right, to achieve a cleaner look, improve composition and emphasise the contrast in size between the mature and younger trees: http://flickr.com/photos/jtrickey/3130642097/

    Another shot I changed to black and white was this: http://flickr.com/photos/jtrickey/2894240421/

    I thought the B&W provided better contrast with the rays of light.

    With this one, I simply boosted the saturation to how it actually was at the time of the sunset: http://flickr.com/photos/jtrickey/2934881705/

    And finally, a completely untouched picture: http://flickr.com/photos/jtrickey/2582899037/

    Photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/jtrickey/

    Is This The Ugliest Countryside In The Country?

    in Archived non-weather Photography

    Posted · Edited by 03jtrickey

    Living in Cheltenham I am lucky to be able to walk and cycle frequently up into the Cotswolds.

    However I don't think that Cambs/Lincs scenery is all that bad; yes, it is a dreadful photograph and the weather was dismal but I am sure in some circumstances it would look very pleasant.

    In its defense, I came across this picture from Norfolk today, and it looks quite pleasant:

    http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/590169

    Lincolnshire scenes such as this: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/434301 would not go amiss in the Cotswolds and neither would little streams like this: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/434304

    To cheer everyone up, here is a pleasant Cotswold scene, taken on a walk yesterday.

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    Who Has Had No Snow At All

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by 03jtrickey

    Rain changed to snow very briefly in the October event. However it's debatable whether it was pure snow or if there was rain mixed in. Other than that there has been no more in lowland Cheltenham. Nevertheless it's reassuring to be close to the Cotswolds; there was a covering on the tops of the hills in October and the MetOffice map reports an average of 13-17 days of lying snow per year.

    Autumn 2008 Photo Competition

    in Archived weather photography area

    Posted · Edited by 03jtrickey

    Four more pictures from me.

    Two weather-related:

    1/ Taken near Montgomery in Powys, close to the Shropshire border.

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    2/ "Moods of the Borderland" Sepia version. Taken from the Stiperstones in Shropshire. This sums up October pretty well, for me!

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    Two non weather-related:

    1/ Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall, Powys, Wales.

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    2/ Clun Countryside, from the Castle.

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    Large orange light above barnsley..

    in Space, Science & nature

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    A couple of years ago in Cheltenham something similar happened; there were white circles of light going round the sky randomly. In the paper the next morning there were reports of people seeing this, and even calling the police to report it. It had been confused for the aurora, UFO sightings etc. In the end it turned out to be a light show staged somewhere in town for publicity (as far as I can remember).

    Fallen Tree in Cheltenham 26-5-08

    in Archived weather photography area

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    ANYWEATHER - yes it's not very often we have winds so strong from the NE, especially at this time of year. It's calming down a little now but MetOffice have more warnings for rain for us overnight, and winds are still gusting to 32mph. Staverton Private (about 4 miles from here) recorded a gust of 56mph with sustained 36mph at 11am this morning: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=daily;type=maxg & http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=daily;type=maxw

    mark forster and wizzy- yes there hasn't been much mention of the winds on the forum, though the Metoffice have had warnings out and Netweather did point out that it would be windy...

    wizzy - I hope the trampoline's okay :) It would have been interesting to have seen a trampoline flying through the air. I remember one year it was another very blustery day and we had a heavy picnic-table umbrella out - it was quite amusing to watch it fly up about 10m as high as the house, into the air before crashing back down!

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