Tuesday 11 February 2014

Sunny February Afternoon Walkies

Yesterday stayed Sunny all day with a high of 13C in the shade. Not bad for a February day here. Forecast is for the weather to return to being overcast, wet and windy so it was a case of making the most of a good day.  Taking the path behind the church I wanted to see if any horses were out in the paddock. Two of Stan's horses were outside soaking up the warmth:

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Down the track opposite the church Penny took her time to investigate every scent and seemed to be contemplating the risks of getting any closer to the water filled ditch:

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Lovely picturesque views across the local flat farmland to the Lincolnshire Wolds:

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The above photo was taken with the Nikon at wide angle. On the horizon, about a third the way from the left, about 5Km away, is the spire of Louth's St. James Church towering above the town which is in a valley. Here it is as seen using the full zoom on the Nikon:

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All the above were processed using various filters in SimplyHDR.

4 comments:

  1. so neat that you have such rural areas within your local walk. :)

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    1. Beautifully rural round here TWG. It would take a major upheaval in life to make me move back to living in a town! Funny, but when I visit the town where I lived over 40 yrs ago I can smell it - probably the pollution from vehicles.

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  2. back to your previous post about your new filter for photographing the sun - check out this website about a huge sunspot larger than Jupiter!
    http://news.yahoo.com/monster-sunspot-larger-jupiter-stars-amazing-sun-photos-115446118.html
    Is that the one in your photo?

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    1. Yes Wilma, that is the same one, on the right hand side of my photo. A report I read said that there were two Sunspots moving closer together which promised a lot of activity. By the time they became active they had disappeared from sight as the Sun rotated.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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