4th Month. Weekend 5th/6th Feb 2011 - Mike

Well as Steve has touched on this last month has gone by quicker than the rise in fuel costs on British forecourts.  I had been thinking if the scene isn't much different what am I going to do ? Sally has suggested getting up in time for a sunrise ... hmmm I'm not a morning person, I could convert to black & white .... hmm still a good few months to come ..soooo .... I changed nothing so the image looks rather remarkably similar to last months.

I only visited the scene on the one day -Sunday and was having to judge my time carefully as I had spent the earlier part of the afternoon wandering around a Mill close to me which is in the process of being demolished and photographing it's rather stunning engine house. It rained for a fair bot of the afternoon but had stopped by the time I got to the scene and the rain had left a nice puddle to left of the scene to add some variety to the shot.

For anyone interested technical Data:  Canon 50D, 28mm prime lens. Settings: ISO 640  1/80 @ f5.0

February 2011 - What a dull day!

A very dull and miserable weekend ~ I went to the site twice and it was equally dull each day!!  And as I sit here typing, it's BRIGHT sunshine straight after a really heavy downpour which would probably make this month's picture a whole lot more interesting!!  I believe it is called the "Law of Sod"!!!

Hey ho ---- this is the pic I took on the weekend I was meant to ~ so ..... without further ado:-

4th Month - Weekend 05-06 February 2011 - Steve

Another month has seemingly flown by without even a how do you do!
Actually visited "the spot" twice over the weekend although the first time was a drive by without stopping as the mist was covering most of the view. Sunday was a lot more successful with the mist sitting in the valleys and the low sun I managed to get a good variety of candidate photos.
The final one - others are in the album  - is this one, with some nice subtle hues of colour.

Hopefully there will be a link and/or slideshow of the published images for each location that will more readily show the changes from month to month - in the works and hope to have something later in the week to try.
Steve

Where it all began ...... by SallyB

Moved to the Where it all began page

So ... as promised (three months ago!) I am sharing the photo's which I took in January 2010 - which inspired me to start thinking about taking the photo at the same location once a month through out the year.

You know the rest ~ I won't dwell ... but suffice to say, that these photo's were taken on my ixus camera, from the roof of my vauxhall astra (now gone!!)whilst I was doing my normal drive to my (then) place of work. A jogger was running up the road towards me, and I could see from the look on his face he thought I was quite mad. (Not far from the truth!) However, I suggested for him to look and see what I was seeing - and the two of us (I'd got down from the car roof by now!) just stood, stared and were in awe. I truly hope you like them. I do ..... VERY MUCH. :)

Better late than never ~ maybe?! Wkend 1st/2nd Jan 2011 - Sally

Whoops! Where does time go?! Remind me please! All of a sudden, here we are at 17th January 2011 and I receive emails pointing out my tardiness ..... and f.i.n.a.l.l.y. I get round to uploading my pics for the first month of 2011!!

My chosen spot has not changed much this month either ~ am thinking (if I can drag my sorry a*se out of bed!!!) that I may go for a sunrise shot for next month ~ just for something fractionally different.

Although, I was surprised at just how low the water is at the moment in the pond. (Suspicion is though, that since I took the photo's it will have raised significantly because ALL IT's DONE so far this year is RAIN!!!)

Anyway ~ here you go ... this month's photo's! Enjoy (the remainder of) January x.

3rd Month - Weekend 01-02 January 2011 - Steve

Firstly I will admit I didn't get a photo "in the bag" until Tuesday lunchtime. Only because the result from the weekend would be something like the white background to this text!
Anyway below is the selected image, battling against the sun coming straight at me, the pictures to the immediate left and right of the view have lovely blue skies! I am going  to have to put a lot more thought into the time of my visits from now on... Well I will try!
Hopefully by February there will be some changes afoot so that there will be more to see, and if I get the timing right a better picture to show...

3rd Month. Weekend 01-02 January 2011 - Mike

Well that came around quickly. This months shot was a bit of a rush job as I was staying with friends in Runcorn and this was pencilled in for one night but ended up being three nights. I took several shots and none looked overly exciting at 1st glance and I also thought there was little, if anything to differentiate this shot from what I expect the next month and maybe two would be like.

Then I saw the shot I have chosen and it struck me that people in the shot made it different to the shots so far and the red/ Orange bag being carried gave an almost symmetrical balance with the red bin. Thus choosing this image was made quite easy in the end.

Technical info for anyone interested is: Canon 50D with 28mm f2.8 Prime (Fixed) lens. Shot in Full manual at 1/40 sec at f10.0