Tag: nature photography

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Wild flowers.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography12 Comments

Good morning, welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I hope your weekend went well and, if you’re in the UK, I hope you’re enjoying the extra day off.

This week we’re turning our camera eyes to the fields and meadows, where we’ve been searching for; Wild flowers.

I took a sunny stroll around the Millennium Green in Rotherfield, East Sussex, where it was difficult to find somewhere that wasn’t covered in drifts of colour.

What blooming lovely delights did you find for us..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Up, down and sideways.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography12 Comments

Hello, good morning and welcome to an Easter bank holiday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is looking; Up, down and sideways.

I went for a very pleasant woodland walk on Saturday, through drifts of bluebells which grow at the foot of some impressive rocky outcrops, the tops of which made for good “down” images.

Up
Down
Sideways

A stream meanders along the woodland floor.

Up
Down
Sideways
Up
Down
Sideways

Now let’s see your sets of three…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Here’s some cool stuff I found.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography11 Comments

Hello there, welcome to a new week and to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is letting you decide what we see, with the prompt; Here’s some cool stuff I found.

I was up in Sussex at the weekend and while I was walking on Rotherfield’s Millennium Green, I came across these wonderfully contorted tree stumps, which have been stripped of their branches but left standing as living sculptures. I think some of them look like giant mammoth tusks.

Also on the green was this living willow igloo, which must have taken hours of patient weaving to construct.

On a walk through the woods on the edge of the village, I found some very cool old railway tunnels, a “dog log” covered in canine tributes, a den made of dead branches and a tiny door at the foot of a tree

Later on, a few miles away in Tunbridge Wells, I walked past a clever shop display which briefly fooled me into thinking it was a view through their windows, but then I crossed the road and noticed an even more artistic illusion on the upper floor…

What did you see that was worth snapping over the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Fun in the sun.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography12 Comments

Hello there, welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I hope you’ve all had a lovely break and the weather where you are was suitable for some; Fun in the sun.

I had Melody and Daisy the dog staying over the weekend; we visited a food festival in Bideford on Saturday and went for a stroll through Venn Quarry Woods yesterday, where there was a bit of a canine theme…

Where did you find sunny fun this week..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: First hints of Spring.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography8 Comments

Hello there, how are you all on this fine Monday morning? All the better for seeing The Cosmic Photo Challenge is here to welcome you to a new week, I’m sure.

This week’s prompt is a season preview, so to speak; First hints of Spring.

I took a walk through the woods in Whiddon Valley, where I captured some early Spring flowers and the carpet of wild garlic along the riverbanks.

And here’s one from the garden.

What did you see that foretells the upcoming change of season..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: From ground level.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography21 Comments

Hello all, how’s your Monday going so far? Well it’s about to get better, because it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to lift the start of your week; From ground level.

I took a sunny morning stroll along the Tarka Trail at Wrafton yesterday and captured the landscape from a very low elevation for a change.

What did you get up to, getting down at the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Compass points.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography7 Comments

Hi there, today on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re seeing things from all four; Compass points.

The concept is simple: four photos, each taken from (or towards) one of the cardinal points of the compass, North, South, East and West.

I was visiting friends in Sussex at the weekend, so I took a walk up onto Ashdown Forest, home of Winnie The Pooh, where I captured these four shots…

North
East
South
West

…and this bonus panorama, which nearly covers all four.

How did your all-round mission go this week..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: From underneath.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography14 Comments

Good morning, welcome to another edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week featuring pictures based on the prompt; From underneath.

I took a walk down the Tarka Trail from Fremington Quay on Saturday, capturing views from beneath the bridge, electricity poles and various vegetation.

I also used a short video clip I shot of the electrical poles, to make my own small tribute to visionary filmmaker, artist, musician and all round creative genius, David Lynch, who sadly passed away last week.

What made you look up over the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The best of the rest.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography9 Comments

That’s one more wet and windy weekend down the drain, but here to brighten your Monday is The Cosmic Photo Challenge, hurrah!

This week we’re taking stock of the year and rounding up; The best of the rest.

Now’s your chance to showcase some cool pictures you took this year, which didn’t fit the brief for any of the challenges, but you’d nevertheless like us to see them.

Here’s a collection of shots from days out, weekends away and just being out and about in the countryside over the last few months.

What were your greatest clicks this year..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Bare branches.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography9 Comments

Hello there, how was your weekend, not too wintery, I hope? Just enough that you could capture some Bare branches for this week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I took a misty walk in the Sussex countryside on Saturday afternoon and found plenty of subjects to fit the bill.

Now let’s have a look at your bare essentials…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.