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RAF Manby

An interesting one this, spotted it on the 28DL facebook page and figured I’d go for a wander round. I’m quite a fan of what their community produces even if at times I do find them a little snobbish towards people like myself who aren’t in it for the photography, merely the adventure. I realise however that there are people who go to these places purely to break stuff and vandalise/steal, I take only photographs (all be it on my phone and not a £900 DSLR) and leave only footprints.

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Playing in a Ford

No, not the car manufacturer, an actual ford. I’m so glad that I finally found someone who has a similar sense of adventure as me. One minute you’re driving through a ford, the next minute you realise that you have wellies in the boot of the car! We had fun!

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Sutton Scarsdale Hall

Just a quick one, called by on our way to the Hartington Cheese Shop to stock up on Stinking Bishop amongst other things. Beautiful and interesting place, wish I’d seen it before they sold the interior off to the yanks.

 

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You Shall Not (Tres)pass!

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Dovedale – August 2014

Bit of a late birthday celebration for Nobby (if that’s what it was, that’s what I felt it should be). Many drunken incidents, very few injuries, no phone signal, altitude on tap, dick-head free evening.

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Quick trip to Lumsdale

only having 30 minutes for my dinner break each day it’s difficult to fit much in besides eating and vaping. Today however I decided to throw caution to the wind and nip down to one of my favourite spots. Not much water (probably due to the recent heat wave) but a gorgeous place none the less.

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Machine Head – Rescue Rooms 29/07/14

Whilst I entered this gig with possibly too much expectation for my usual self I can’t deny being at least a little disappointed. The music was good, the sound quality was good, the band however didn’t seem with it, Robb talked at great length in between tracks, barely played his guitar and seemed to be struggling with the words to some degree.

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Fauxtography™

A term that  friend of mine (Mr. Mike Holmes) coined last year, I have to say that he hit the nail on the head superbly.

The new fad of instagram is slowly driving me insane, photographic filters are not new, they’ve been around since forever. The art of tastefully washing out elements of an image, enhancing certain colours, cropping an image for the best composition are as I suggested, an art-form.

This latest craze reminds me of the stereos that come with pre-defined graphic equalizers, 99% of people would simply set them to ‘Rock’ so that the display has the word Rock across the front of it as though without it you could only listen to pop or classical music. The choice bore no relevance on the enhancements being made to the sound based upon the shortcomings of the speakers/amplifier/room acoustics which is what graphic equalisers were designed to compensate for.

Back to the subject… Making your images look like every other image on instagram makes you about as unique or a talented photographer/image manipulator as an iSheep. Gain some individuality people, it’s not hard or expensive to begin learning to this properly, have a look at GIMP, read some of the tutorials and have some creative fun that may just expand your horizons.

Rant over, go and play.

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Crazy Summer Sunday

So yesterday I woke up really early having not slept well. I headed over to Tansley car boot for 8am, bought some stuff and headed home to find my landlord tarting up my back yard, a nice job done too. The next thing I know I’ve got a bunch of friends in my back yard drinking cider and getting on with our usual barmy behaviour. It has been a rather gorgeous weekend indeed.

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Solstice Sunset

For the end of the solstice Helen, Sawooki and myself headed for Ashover Rock again, how I always get lost on my way there is beyond me but it’s something I have to accept…