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Went for a stroll into the Dimminsdale Nature Reserve, it is a nature reserve at the southern point of Staunton Harold Reservoir, on the Derbyshire / Leicestershire border and what a feast for the eyes, carpets of Snowdrops.

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Taken in a local hotel's foyer, I love the very wide angle and the curves in the blinds at the right. Taken with the 10.5mm Nikkor.

This design reminds me of the Festival of Britain logo of 1951, shown below. I have used a tilt shift effect in Photoshop on this photograph taken with iPhone.




Another highly distorted photograph taken with the 10.5mm Nikkor, taken from about a decimetre away from the headlamp.

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My attempt at a producing a panel of photographs in the Wellsian way, a visiting speaker to our photographic club recently inspired some of us to produce images taken in this way.

In the images jewellery, handbags, menu, scarves, canopy, lights.

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The elfin like creature has invaded my space again, first time in a long while. She has changed her epidermis for white spots on a red. Really cool...

Topaz Simplify helped to smooth out the epidermis texture.

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When I attempted to install Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Thursday 22nd December 2010, the installer got to 11% and stuck. I downloaded the trial as suggested by Adobe, same result. Eventually a second support technician who I spoke to the next day was able to put her finger on the problem and resolved it.

I have been trying to create Photomerged images without success since then, so on 4th February I bit the bullet again and called Adobe technical support. Eventually there was that eureka moment when I was able to successfully create Photomerged panoramic images again. The technician was audibly very happy with a successful result, all down to a malfunctioning preferences file.

The original photographs in the two creations below were taken with the Nikkor 10.5mm lens, in the first image I used 14 Photomerged photographs and in the second 23.