Project 52 - Weekly Photos from Geoff F

[Geoff F]

Once again, I will be attempting to post at least one photo per week throughout 2025.

Week 01 - Hope Cove. After gales and rain yesterday I expected to find some good surf here, but the sea had become virtually flat overnight. Some surfers were gently bobbing up and down and looking disappointed. So without the surf I tried to include some people instead. Nice day for January though.



Trying to cross the beach without getting their feet wet.



Mouthwell Beach at Outer Hope Cove

[billtils]

Take away the people and their thermal coats and it's almost mediterranean!

[Geoff F]

Week 02 - Thurlestone Beach. A couple of miles further along the coast during a brief sunny spell this morning.



7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/800 F10 Iso 400. Merge of two bracketed exposures

Pathway to the beach. Another of those impossible to photograph, but I will have a go anyway situations.



Merge of two bracketed exposures plus a bit of fiddling around during the edit

Walking along the beach



Merge of two bracketed exposures.

[JessicaFuller]

Wow, I love it.

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the comment Jessica.

Week 03 - Gordon in Andrews Wood. Last week there was a volunteer day at a local nature reserve and it looked like being a nice day but the event leader was unable to get there due to snow around Dartmoor so the event was cancelled. However, two of us never saw the cancellation so we turned up as normal and had a productive morning cutting back the undergrowth. This is the other person wondering why nobody else was there.

I only had my little Fuji X20 camera but did what I could with it anyway.



1/800 F6.4 Iso 320

There was a cloudless blue sky.



1/900 F7.1 Iso 320

[billtils]

Nice ones Geoff - lovely blue sky and some human interest ... at first glance it looks like your companion has a set of bagpipes behind him

[Geoff F]

That is the local version of a Swiss Army Knife, Bill.

Do these images seem a bit dark to other people? They look fine on my main work computer, with Photoshop, but after linking from P base they seem to have darkened a bit.

[billtils]

And the images look fine to me (viewed on my uncalibrated MacBook screen).


Bill

[Geoff F]

Thanks. I have double checked and P base images look a bit darker and greener tinted than when viewed with my working computer using Photoshop.

My main working computer isn't normally connected to the internet and for safety I use an older one for internet use, with different monitors which are both calibrated. But they are slightly different.

I will try to bear this in mind for future uploads.

[Geoff F]

Week 04 - A local nature reserve. A hint of blue in the sky tempted me to visit a local nature reserve but by the time I got there the sky was turning grey once again. Anyway, I persevered and shot a few scenes in the difficult light.

Looking across the marsh



7D with Canon 24-105 lens. 1/400 F8 Iso 640. Merge of two bracketed exposures

A Black-headed Gull doing a bit of wing maintenance



Sigma 150-600 Sport lens. 1/400 F6.3 Iso 640

Oystercatcher digging deep for some food



1/320 F6.3 Iso 640