There is a little village, just up the road from us, called Bolsterstone.  It’s a beautiful old village, and as luck would have it rather fitting for this weeks Ruby Tuesday.

This is the Village Hall.  A lovely building, spoiled only by the ridiculously placed cable - workmen!

Specially for Ruby Tuesday - the sign.

Below is the beautiful church.  The whole village is unspoiled, and the houses are built with the same old brick, including the fantastic pub!

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I know I have been a bit slack lately regarding my posting.  The Christmas holiday has kept me very busy with other stuff and I missed my ‘Sepia’ shot again this week.  I think I will be forgiven when you see what I have been busy doing.   I got my new camera for Christmas and we have had the most glorious frosty weather, so today Mo and I went out so I could take photos with my new camera.

We went to one of our favourite spots and what we saw took our breath away!  Unlike snow, that leaves a covering of white over everything, frost makes everything white all over.  There was also a light fog which just made everything look really lovely.  Just look at these photos.

When we first arrived it was very weird and I was disorientated.  It took me a while to see things as they really were.

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The little black square that looks like it’s floating in air, in the photo above, is the water level marker.  As I got closer and changed my view, it became clearer and I was in total awe.  The water was so still it looked like glass.

I can’t believe that these photos just came straight off my camera, and I didn’t need to even open Photoshop!  I took a lot more photos that I will be posting at some time.

I think I am pleased with my new camera :O)

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I got to post a Sepia Scenes photo today.  It isn’t the one I intended posting because the one I had in mind isn’t quite ready.  I’ll post that one next week.

I’m afraid I can’t say how I achieved this one because I did it a couple of weeks ago and I can’t remember now.  I posted the original shot also.  It was taken this summer while tucking into a lovely picnic.  I couldn’t resist taking a photo of such a beautiful oak tree.

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We managed to bring our Poinsettia back to full health, and all we did was move it to the kitchen and place it on the window sill.

I thought it deserved another showing on Ruby Tuesday!

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Mo and I went out for a Christmas meal with our church the other night.  From there we went on to a ‘Beauty and the Beast’ pantomime. There must have been at least seventy of us.  It was a great night out.  I had ‘Fruits of the forest’ cheesecake for dessert and think it makes a good Ruby Tuesday post.

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This is an old photo, turning sepia through age. I have reversed the process of the meme for this post.

It’s a photograph of my parents wedding.  You can see how badly damaged it is.  I can’t imagine how it got in that state.  Somebody had stuck it to a piece of paper and tried to draw in the parts that were missing. I decided it was worth trying to salvage, so I scanned it in to Photoshop and went to work.

Here you see the original photograph, and below is the photograph after working in Photoshop.  They are both enlargeable if you click them.

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Lately I have been posting photos that I took on a walk we took a few weeks ago.  These photos were also taken on that walk.  I took about 150 photos that day, so there are plenty more left.

I loved these very tall trees.  They looked beautiful against the blue sky.

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AWARD

I was given this lovely ‘Super Sweet Shots Award’ by Paz’s New York Minute

Thank you so much Paz and I’m sorry it took so long to post.  It was a lovely surprise!

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This is a photo taken a few years ago, when we had a lovely snow fall.  I turned it sepia using ‘Colour Variations’ in Photoshop, until I got the desired colour.  I then burnt it out a bit to make it look old and faded, using ‘Level’ and altering the highlight slider (on the right) to bleach out the snow colour.  added a layer and brushed on the outer shaded bits.  Once I was satisfied, I ‘flattened’ the image.

If you click my ‘Snow’ category link, you will see the original photo, that Mo took.

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Better late than never!

I have been so busy with Mo’s birthday and Christmas decorations that I haven’t had time to take pictures.  I’m sorry I haven’t updated this blog as often as I should have, but here’s a Ruby Tuesday shot I took today especially :O)

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One more thing!

I’m sorry but I still haven’t fixed my sidebar widgets, I have been so busy.  I will do them very soon, then my blog will be as good as new :O)

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