Tag: nature photography

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Easter walk.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography11 Comments

Hello there, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend, I’m looking forward to your contributions for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, based on the prompt; An Easter walk.

I went for a pleasant stroll in the woods just a few minutes from home and followed the river through drifts of wild garlic, celandine and wood anemones.

Now you can show us the scenery on your Easter walk…

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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 an interesting angle.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography15 Comments

Welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I hope you had an enjoyable weekend, mine seems to have flown by without me noticing.

A couple of weeks ago Audrey was decluttering her bedroom and I snagged a selfie stick she’d never used, because it might come in useful and who doesn’t want another gadget?

It would come in very useful, for instance, if you wanted to take photos; From an interesting angle, which just happens to be this week’s prompt.

So I went for a very pleasant walk around Rock Park in the winter sunshine and did a one man photo shoot.

What kind of tangent did you find yourself on this week?

It’s so easy to join in, just follow these simple steps…

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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: Show us your Christmas.

On By dalecooper57In photography10 Comments

Hello there, I hope your festivities went as planned and you all had a lovely day. As usual we are celebrating Christmas today instead, because Rhonda had a twelve hour shift yesterday, so we’ve just bumped everything up a day.

As a result, I don’t have any “action shots” of Christmas happening, so to speak, but I do have a lot of photos, nonetheless.

I went for a Christmas Eve walk at Watersmeet, which is the National Trust property near Lynton and Lynmouth, an area  the Victorians described as “little Switzerland”.

I took so many, most of them form a special post on my other blog which you can peruse HERE, but here’s just a small selection to whet your appetite for the spectacular scenery of Exmoor.

Please go and check out the remaining photos, it really is a beautiful place.

Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you, I look forward to more of your fabulous photos in 2023.

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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 ’22.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, photography11 Comments

Only two more prompts for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to go this year, so I thought it was time for us to review; The best of ’22.

So it’s time to blow our own trumpets, showcase our best bits, play favourites and glow with inner pride as we look back at some of the images we were especially pleased with over the last twelve months.

These could be photos you’ve already shared as part of the challenge, or maybe you’ve never taken part before and have hundreds to choose from!

Maybe you didn’t have room in previous challenges or you just have pictures from this year which deserve our attention, well then now’s your chance to shine.

My personal criteria for inclusion of my images in today’s post was more…esoteric, shall we say, in that mine were chosen as part of the creative process known technically as “mucking about”.

Here is my artistic representation of my photographic year, 2022

16 images were used to create this collage, how many can you spot?

What were your finest moments this year?

Come on, don’t be shy…

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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: Autumn colours.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography12 Comments

Today’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge revolves around the theme of; Autumn colours.

It remains to be seen if the wind leaves trees with enough foliage to give us a full autumnal display this year, but the changes are certainly beginning to show.

Now let’s see how the year is progressing in your part of the world.

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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: As summer fades.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography12 Comments

I was fully expecting a weekend of dreary weather, as per the forecast, hence the theme on The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week being based on the prompt; As summer fades.

But nature confounded satellite technology once again, with very pleasant weather on both days, including this fabulous Exmoor sunrise, from early yesterday morning after taking Rhonda to work.

Maybe there’s hope for summer, yet.

How did your mission to capture the changing seasons go?

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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: In the evening.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography21 Comments

Welcome to a bank holiday Monday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, inspired by the prompt; In the evening.

I captured my twilight images on the way to collect Rhonda from work, including a brief visit to the Millennium Green at Landkey, just before 7 last night.

How did you fare in your search for some enchanted evening..?

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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: Action shots.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography13 Comments

Your mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge today, if you choose to accept it, is to provide us with; Action shots.

I have to admit to taking advantage of hosting this week, already having some photos in mind when I set the prompt, but I did conduct one or two new experiments, too.

Most of my shots concern the always entertaining herring gull chicks at work, specifically their eagerness to consume any morsels of food on offer.

They’re very keen on fruit loaf and bagels, here’s two siblings fighting over scraps…

…and here’s a sequence I like, particularly for the expression of concentration on the mum as she watches the bread from behind her chick.

Then there’s this verrrrrrrry sloooowwww action shot, taken in the hope of capturing the Perseid meteor shower.

Alas, all I caught were stars, still pretty cool, though.

And here are a couple of new long exposures, made using an old Zippo lighter

Now let’s see yours, it’s time for lights, camera, action!

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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: North, South, East, West.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography13 Comments

Hi there, I hope you had a good weekend, we’re here to ease you into Monday with The Cosmic Photo Challenge. This week we take you on a whistle stop tour of all points of the compass, with the prompt; North, South, East, West.

This gave pretty free rein in subject matter selection, since we simply had to be shooting in roughly the right direction each time, so for added precision I have included screenshots of my compass app in all the images.

I gave a friend a lift to Braunton yesterday and I took a few pictures over there, including a couple of North/South and East/West panoramas, one vertical, one horizontal. I captured a handsome looking spider in the garden and also got some nice star trails with a long exposure on Saturday night.

North
East
South
West
North to South
East to West

What treasures did your 360° photographic quest reveal for us this week?

There’s plenty of time to join in, don’t be shy, we’re a friendly bunch. ;~}

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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 the ground, up.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography23 Comments

Where did the weekend go? It seems like Friday was only yesterday, when I gave you the prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week; From the ground, up.

I took the literal route, with most of my photos taken at ground level, some using a wide angle, one with a timer.

Now let’s see what you’ve all been looking up to…

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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.