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Beautiful early Spring day on the Chester city walls.

More experiments with Camerabag for Mac. This time the photo is of Tintern Abbey – a beautiful ruin in the Wye Valley (very popular tourist spot in the 1800’s painted by JMW Turner and had a poem about it written by Wordsworth). I’ve visited there a couple of times and this shot was taken last Autumn when the Wye Valley glowed with the reds and golds of Autumn.

Filters used for this B&W effect are Cinema -> Magazine -> Mono -> Silver with the reprocess option on.

The beautiful ruins of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire lead to a number of great photo opportunities. This shot was taken with a Sony A200 and edited using CameraBag for Mac. Filter combination was Silver -> Instant -> ColorCross

The same flower image. The original was taken at Clumber Park at the end of last summer and is a mass of blue-purple chrysanthemums. The others have been post-processed using CameraBag for Mac using the same filters. In order these were Instant -> ColorCross -> Lolo -> Cinema -> 1974.

Thanks to the mystic voodoo that is the reprocess button you can end up with completely different effects. One is faded greys and bleached greens, the others vibrant fuschia, red and lime. Very cool software.

Present wrapping is now underway. Must be almost Christmas.

A set of photos taken at Westonbirt Arboretum in late October 2010. The weather conditions this year has led to a fantastic variety of autumn colour – combinations of gold, orange and brilliant reds. Probably past their best now but if you live near an arboretum or any park I’d recommend a walk through the leaves.