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Post by rgsp on Jan 1, 2018 12:11:06 GMT
The first of three obelisks positioned as planned. There are very solid "somethings" buried underground there, and the First World War crowbar/trenching tool was essential to get the legs in deep enough. Mrs RGSP is hoping to get the rose to the left to grow up the obelisk: it's a Parc Direktor Riggers, and very vigorous (as well as having a dreadful name) so it may do well there. The final shot shows where the second obelisk will go, between the next pair of windows to the right. There's another two windows to the right, out of the shot, and the third obelisk will go between the next pair.
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Post by matthew on Jan 1, 2018 13:10:40 GMT
They look super rgsp, gorgeous. Happy New Year.
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Post by 4wd on Jan 1, 2018 13:18:10 GMT
I was just testing an old cannon powershot not used for 5 years - it uses the same batteries as my current (smaller) one and fired up no problems for a test shot of neighbours across the dale It does have a longer zoom than the 'new' one. One of the peculiarities of living in a relatively steep valley is how houses and farms look across at each other - not by any means a bad thing at times. This is where the air ambulance incident was last May.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 4, 2018 13:28:43 GMT
The third obelisk got installed just before lunch (and just after the drizzle had stopped). There were various flooring bricks buried well below soil level, so this one needed a bit of digging to get the legs in far enough.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 4, 2018 15:03:17 GMT
Closely following on the 3rd Obelisk, the 3rd one got temporarily dropped into the ground over a dead damson trunk elsewhere in the garden. It can stay there a while, so we can decide whether it's the "right" place for it. The spare obelisk does look different when viewed from several angles, but I'm quite pleased with it at the moment. Meanwhile... My photography had an audience.
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Post by 4wd on Jan 6, 2018 10:42:08 GMT
Between the showers - from upstairs window! Actually since then it has brightened up quite a bit.
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Post by 4wd on Jan 6, 2018 10:52:09 GMT
These two are really test shots from a'new' (refurbished) Sony RX100 I bought from ebay a week ago. It's almost *too sharp*. As with any new one it takes a while to get used to it. It is undoubtedly a very good camera The video from it is - Again almost too sharp and detailed - it makes you look ancient
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Post by rgsp on Jan 6, 2018 17:43:33 GMT
If "too sharp" is a fault in a camera, then can I have some please? I'm sure there's software which will soften edges and lines etc. if need be for portraits, equivalent to the special accessory lenses that some professional photographers used to add for portraits. I think you've got a bargain there 4WD.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 8, 2018 21:15:17 GMT
I've never been into lower Baysdale, but a circuit of the upper dale, starting from the west, dropping to the so-called Baysdale Abbey, and then via the Eastern moor to the dale head, makes a fine walk. It certainly has a strange feel about it, and the old mining/mill complex at the head of the dale would warrant 4WD and a camera I'd say. It's been disused for a very long while, but it's sufficiently remote that little of the good building stone has been taken, and indeed there are still bits of iron work there.
Compare it with (Battersby) Bank Top, where there was a fairly major railway installation, and very little now remains.
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Post by 4wd on Jan 8, 2018 21:29:02 GMT
The owner of a farmhouse at the site says there is a secret crypt with altar they keep quiet rather than have it attracting visitors Officially no trace remains of the Abbey, though it was well documented and had a secondary site towards the coast near Lingdale. Another from this morning, these are from the new camera and with good light it gets great detail. click for larger size but that's still only 50% "]
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Post by 4wd on Jan 11, 2018 18:07:00 GMT
This looks like a relatively small gap but the foundation stones have slipped out so needs digging out and resetting those. That took most of this afternoon but now it is ready to start building. I may take tractor round as at least two are too big to lift easily. The stones there do seem to me unusually heavy. Although fog is hardly enjoyable it can be good for landscape photos as it's a way to isolate features such as old trees. Some of these gnarly thorns are reckoned to be like natural bonsai and much older than they appear - perhaps centuries. Sometimes you get one right in a wall and it is not certain if it grew by the wall or the wall was built close to it.
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Post by Joyce on Jan 11, 2018 21:28:10 GMT
Mind your back when rebuilding. Glad you are enjoying new camera
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Post by 4wd on Jan 13, 2018 17:19:29 GMT
Day #2 walling. Reasonably pleased with this but not sure it can be finished in another afternoon. From the lower side (road and ditch) it is almost 6 feet tall so I suspect the big top stones will need loader tractor again. Only there for a couple of hours today it was very windy (and cold) up there.
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Post by 4wd on Jan 18, 2018 10:14:00 GMT
Automated panorama - this is pretty easy just turn sideways slowly as it clicks away. (click for larger)
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Post by Joyce on Jan 19, 2018 18:34:24 GMT
Great for banner making
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