Fovant Badges

As it is Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, I thought I'd post a picture I recently took of the Fovant Badges which were featured on last weeks BBC's Countryfile programme.

The first badges appeared in 1916 and were created by soldiers garrisoned nearby who were waiting to go to France and fight in the hell of the First World War.

Lest We Forget.

Two Faced

Inspired by Venezuelan artist Jesús González Rodríguez and his project called 1/2 I thought I would have a go and combining a face on portrait with a side profile.

I just took 2 quick snaps, edited them together using Photoshop then added a texture. The whole process took less than 15 minutes.

Lake District Waterfalls

Here are the waterfall pictures promised on my last post from my recent trip to the Lake District.

I have always wanted to have a go at capturing flowing water so that I appears almost mist / fog like. What better place to try this than on the various waterfalls that I came across during my visit to the lakes.

To capture these types of images you need to use slower shutter speeds and smaller apertures (higher f/stop numbers) and have your camera on a tripod or another sturdy surface.

Anyway, here are some of my results whilst attempting this technique.















As usual, click on the images to enlarge.