week 29: Another graveyard

Not far from my office is an old cemetery. It was used at one point to bury people who were independent of the Church of England. It apparently has lots of famous people in, none of whom I've ever heard (with the exception of William Blake). And as far as we can tell it has never been consecrated. Once it was full (120 000 people got buried in the 4 hectares here!) it was then turned into a public garden. These days its a lovely place to go for a lunchtime stroll. There are beautiful trees and even some benches to sit on and you can often find city workers having lunch or mobile conversations there and it is also a popular place for runners. The graves are all fenced off so the public can not actually walk between them. But if you go there at non-peak-time, its actually a very peaceful place.

I don't know who this gravestone belonged to, but it seemed to command a space to itself and on a day like that (overcast and rainy) the coloured leaves just really stand out. I spent a lot of time trying to do things to this photo and eventually discarded them all except for a slight white balance change. I'm hoping that's a sign that I'm finally getting the hang of my new camera, but I guess only time will tell.

week 28: Moth

I found this little guy on my back door window the other evening. Sometimes you see something and the light is just right. So where normally I would not look at any of the various moths that come into my house twice, on this fine evening with the back lighting, it just turned out nice. I'm also loving how my new camera (yes I will probably call my canon "my new camera" for at least a year) can bring the depth of field down so much that I can only tell what the background is because I know what it was :-)

I was toying with the idea of adding a texture to this or creating an artificial frame, but at the end of the day I think I like it just cropped a little like this.