As part of adjusting to this 9am – 1pm work routine (which may turn into a permanent thing but I haven’t heard yet so we’ll wait and see) I’ve noticed that when I get home around 1.30 my mind treats it as the “end of the day” despite having only worked for four hours. So I have a bit of food, putter on the ‘puter for a while and at around 5pm start feeling a little sleepy. This, of course, is a bad thing. If I do try and get 20 winks they turn into 20,000,000 winks, because I’m shit like that, and I end up not getting a decent night’s sleep. So to try and rectify this I’m experimenting with a brisk walk as soon as I start getting dozy using the camera as motivation to do so. I’m drip-feeding the photos into Flickr (most will end up in the Bournville set) but this one came out very nicely:
I always like that moment when you see something you know really well from a completely different perspective. If I manage to keep this afternoon walk thing up I expect this to happen a fair bit. Maybe I’ll even hit that magic moment with that darned Rest House. Such an icon and so hard to shoot right…
I like the springtime trees in front of the building. It looks at though you’ve altered their opacity in photoshop.
Not so much, actually. A teeny bit of Curves for contrast but nothing major. It was just a really sunny day. ;)
Just been for an afternoon brisk walk of my own . I live on the outskirts of London so it’s semi urban parks rather than wide open spaces. I love the way the parks departments leave increasing amounts of grassy areas uncut to encourage the wild flowers and grasses. It’ a real departure from 5 years or so ago. It’s all starting to grow just now and really gladdens the heart.