Compassion

This week I have been doing a photgraphy course with a local photgrapher. His work is fabulous, really gritty B & W's. Anyway, this is may attempt at that sort of thing.

Jancourt (and why I need a wider lens)

I went for a drive this afternoon while my DH was watching the football and I found this lovely place called Jancourt. There isn't a town or anything, it's just a rural district. Most of the country side around here is very, very flat, but this area is really hilly. It was so green and the light on the willow trees was lovely, but then to make things perfect this huge rainbow came out. It was actually still raining when I took these so i had to edit out a few rain spots on the lens. I probably missed some too. Sorry there are so many (kinda all the same) but I couldn't decide which I liked the best. As you can see, my 17-85 lens just isn't quite wide enough to get the whole rainbow. I wanted to use the second one as my blog banner, but I have stuffed something up, so no banner til i get my DH to fix it. Have a nice weekend everyone.

a few more from Sunday

Sunday was the first sunny day we have had for weeks, so i made the most of it.

This first one is one of my favourite views here. i love the different shades of colour. The nest two are just some random stuff. The last one I was fooling around with DOF. Do you think it works in an abstract kinda way? I like the blurry colours in the background (sky, grass covered dunes, beach and sea), but I'm not sure if the foreground is a bit cluttered.

Hands

I'm a bit late up-loading these. I took them yesterday, but it was so late by the time I got around to sorting them out. This is our local war memorial.