This is a famous landmark in the UK, called the Blackpool Tower.   Blackpool is a seaside town, famed for it’s magnificent street lights.  People come for miles around to see them.  It’s also known for it’s entertainment.  Many well known entertainers perform there regularly.  When we moved up to Yorkshire, we just had to go to Blackpool, at least once.   It wasn’t really our thing.  Too big and noisy, with lots of  ‘Kiss me Quick’ hats, if you know what I mean :O)

Anyway, I thought it made a good sepia shot.  I did some tweaking around in Photoshop to make it look old.

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I couldn’t resist this cute little ‘lemon’ timer.  Mo buys these at regular intervals as she manages to break them constantly!  I think she just likes buying a different design each time.

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I loved the effect of this photo.  I used a Photoshop Action that Lee of Tarheel Ramblings guided me to.  There are two sets of actions at The Pioneer Woman’s briliiant photography blog, and they are totally free to download and use.  I used the ‘Vintage’ action here and was pleasantly surprised by it.  I like to play around and experiment myself, but sometimes it’s just nice to simplyfy the process.

Again, I’ve posted the original to show the full effect of the action.

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These photos were taken on one of our walks over Christmas.  I was very nervous of these bulls, probably because of their horns, and the fact that a few stones and a bit of wire was all that separated them from me!  Anyway I couldn’t get close enough and manage to focus properly so the first few were a bit out of focus.  This one was the best of the bunch.  I have no idea what they are, and we’d never seen them before on our trips out.

EDIT: Having been pointed out to me the fact that you never see more than one or two bulls in a field, and on closer inspection, I realize that these are, in fact, cows not bulls.  I would still be nervous of their horns though ;O)

Below is the photo that Mo, being braver than I, took!  The facial markings were not as unusual on this one though.

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This is a painting I did last year.  I like the center one with the yellow in it best.  Yellow is my favourite colour at the moment.

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I took this photo on New Years day.  It was a really frosty day, with a little mist, so we went out to get some photos.  I took the photo of this farmhouse especially for Sepia Scenes.

I played around with filters in Photoshop to get this effect so I posted the original photo for you to see the actual view.

The original shot.

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Drowsey Monkey has started a new meme called Mellow Yellow Monday.  The idea is to post photos that include some yellow.  Here is my first mellow yellow post.

This was a game we played over Christmas.  I don’t know what it was called but it was like Pictionary, but instead of drawing you made models using Playdoh.  It was a hilarious game!  Each time you lost, you had a wadge of your Playdoh removed.  The team who ended up with a pea-sized piece lost the game!

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I don’t know if I’m late posting this – I probably am :O)  This was taken with my old camera last year but I thought these lambs looked cute in sepia.  I can’t tell you how I achieved the sepia, as I did this a while back.  After I turned it sepia in Photoshop, I made a layer and used ‘Screen’ to make it bleach out.  I then erase all but a few patches of the screen layer.

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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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