This photo perplexes me slightly, because I don't remember the day, the light, being this gloomy. I will have to come back later in the year and when the light's in the right direction to get this view properly.


( Read more... )

This image probably doesn't do justice to the light, in this small version. The large versions aren't as good as it was in person, either ...


( Read more... )

have often looked at night-time photos taken under sodium lighting and wondered why you can't correct for the orange cast. I can now demonstrate an answer - though I quite like the effects in the small pictures. (ETA: the first is un-edited; the other two have been colour-corrected as ineffectively as I probably could have predicted.)


( Read more... )

On the 25th, bookwormsarah and I wandered back up to Palace Green and the Cathedral for another wallow in nostalgia for her train home. I impulsively found myself taking a series of photographs from the same place but with different settings ... and I am still not quite sure how I managed to get such strange lighting effects. I have done exactly nothing except ( Read more... )

Today I went to the doctor's, because yesterday evening, all of a sudden, breathing was extremely painful and very difficult. The surgery I was going to this time was - for those of you who know Durham - at the top of Claypath, and I decided to point out the contradiction in what shimgray said a few days ago in comments about the cathedral never fitting in ( Read more... )

Today - yes, I know, it says the 8th, but LJ's been locking me out for the last couple of hours - I decided to try repeating yesterday's photo, only by daylight. The light wasn't great, and there were fire engines out in force on Palace Green - looks like they were attending a fire in Bishop Cosin's Library; hope it's nothing serious ( Read more... )

So, a spot of unoriginality. I dare say there'll be quite a lot of these, this coming year. Durham - some bits of it in particular - are so picturesque it's not possible to take pictures of them without looking like a cliché. So ... a cliché it is. ( Cathedral )