Beat the Reaper
 

'Beat the Reaper' 10k run around Croxteth Hall in Liverpool.

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Beat the Reaper by Blampish, on Flickr

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Beat the Reaper by Blampish, on Flickr

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Beat the Reaper by Blampish, on Flickr

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Beat the Reaper by Blampish, on Flickr

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Beat the Reaper by Blampish, on Flickr

Calligraphy
 

Every year, I plan to start making my Christmas cards in October, and I end up leaving until the week before Christmas! Well, this year I've actually made a start!!

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Christmas is coming by Blampish, on Flickr

Autumn is come
 

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The Fight Begins by Blampish, on Flickr

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Morning Dew by Blampish, on Flickr

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Into the Mist by Blampish, on Flickr

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Autumn is here by Blampish, on Flickr

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Autumn Creeping In by Blampish, on Flickr

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Down the Road by Blampish, on Flickr

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The Mist Fades by Blampish, on Flickr

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Coming to an end by Blampish, on Flickr

Nice pics ;)

Got a decent wee camera for my birthday last month, just been messing around with it, but will need to go out and see if I can take any decent pics to share ;)

A few shots from London from last November

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The Bell Tolls by Blampish, on Flickr

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Heron by Blampish, on Flickr

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Green Park by Blampish, on Flickr

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Falling Down by Blampish, on Flickr

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I See You by Blampish, on Flickr

And I spent an afternoon at London Zoo while I was there too :)

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Burning bright by Blampish, on Flickr

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Prowling by Blampish, on Flickr

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Naptime by Blampish, on Flickr

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Pink Pelican by Blampish, on Flickr

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Fine and Feathered by Blampish, on Flickr

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Time for tea by Blampish, on Flickr

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Oi, you! by Blampish, on Flickr

I wish I had your skill when it comes to taking pictures. Very sharp and I'm impressed by the amount of colour there is in them. Did you photoshop them a lot?

I salute you,
TS

For the most part I do quite minimal editing, just using the basic RAW editor controls to fine-tune colour levels and lighting. For me it's all about trying to match the photo up to reality, to make it look how it appeared to me when I shot it - sometimes cameras are limited in that respect, so some shots can take more work than others.

For example, this was a shot I took recently at the beach - the sky was very bright so the original image had a good amount of detail in the clouds, but the sea and the boats were very dark, so I had to raise the dark levels up while keeping the bright parts from going too bright.

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Blue and red by Blampish, on Flickr

Sometimes I use a technique called HDR (high dynamic range imaging) which takes it one step further, by taking the same shot at different exposure levels and then merging them together to create one photo. They can look very odd because we're used to seeing photos in a certain way, but technically these are much closer to the way our eyes see things, getting beyond the old limitations of cameras.

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Liverpool from above by Blampish, on Flickr

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You've Been Framed by Blampish, on Flickr

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Where does it lead? by Blampish, on Flickr

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Crumbled by Blampish, on Flickr



And these ones aren't mine, but just to show a few more examples of this effect in more extremes - as you can see, they almost take on an illustrated quality, but they are genuine photos.


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Dentist Office by Neil Kremer, on Flickr

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HDR-Alternatief-200-ISO by Pixel Peter, on Flickr

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The Sun-Filled Corridor by TheFella, on Flickr

Can't really compete with some of the pictures here since my camera is just my phone. But just wanted to post these I took last Christmas. It's pretty cool when the way you look at the places you grew up in and realize the type of beautiful scenery you used to have on your own backyard and never appreciated until now.....

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