Sunday 23 December 2012

Blast from the Past

img_5314I’m sure it was a surprise to all of us when the apocalypse didn’t happen a few days ago, however with the days of continuous rain we’ve been getting, it’s certainly felt like the end of the world was coming.  Today this has finally had a respite, but only because the gales have blown away the clouds.

All this of course has meant little chance of getting out and, after spending way too much time on the festive image left, I decided to reclaim my sanity and do something more practical – by having a clear-out of my storage drive, of which its 1 terabyte of space is now nearly half full of all of my RAW photographs.

This collection starts from my first introduction to digital photography back in 2006 and so far I’ve only completed going through the first few years having deleted plenty lot of images I would now think of as being poor quality.  As these six years have gone by I like to think that, not only my photography has improved, but also my skills at processing the images and getting the best out of them.  Also RAW and editing software has made advances and, in particular, to remove noise.

So, in order of date taken, here are some of my images that I either overlooked originally or have managed to re ‘process’ to get a better image out of them than my original effort.

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Grey Wagtail – September 2006 Canon 350D & 400mm lens + converter

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Female Pheasant – October 2009 Canon 350D & 400mm lens

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Female Roe Deer taken at dawn – December 2006 Canon 30D & 400mm lens

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Red Fox – March 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Robin with food for young – May 2007 Canon 30D 400mm lens

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Red Fox – May 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Kestrel along main road – June 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Goldfinches – June 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Young Rabbit – June 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Pied Woodpecker – June 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Red Squirrel – July 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens + converter

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Rook – July 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens

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Nuthatch - July 2007 Canon 30D & 400mm lens

3 comments:

  1. Great images, Frank. My favourites being the two fox images, the Woodpecker and the Red Squirrel. Merry Christmas.

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  2. Thanks Christian. With the weather being as it is there may be more posts like this!

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  3. The squirrel with the hat on is very cute.

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