Broken Buddha of Wat Phra Singh

Broken Buddha of Wat Phra Singh, originally uploaded by Bill Bevan.

A Buddha statue lies apparently abandoned below a Bhodi tree in the grounds of Wat Phra Singh. However, he is far from forgotten. Taken at 3.30pm in the afternoon. I'm travelling without my tripod this year, baby instead, and my gorillapod couldn't quite reach the plinth to be far enough from the subject.

Elephant and Tusk

Elephant and Tusk, originally uploaded by Bill Bevan.

One of a few elephant-related images from in and around Chiang Rai's Wat Klang Wiang, a historical Buddhist temple in the centre of town. Stucco elephants on the outside, real tusks on the inside. The light and shade of this particular elephant seems to highlight its eye and I think works best in B&W. Any thoughts?

Big Cat Photographic Safari (Kent) July 2009

Hi Everyone, Just like to say I had a great time on the Big Cat Photographic Safari a few weekends ago. It was so much more difficult than the Bala exercise as the subjects kept moving and didn't give a lot of time for composition. Working on the assumption that if I took enough photo's I'd be bound to get something good, I ended up taking over 1500 shots. I've since dwindled that down to 39 that I'm really happy with, and I hope to get that down to about 20. Below are a selection of my favourites (others are on my web site).

Sukhothai

Here are a few photos from a recent visit to Sukhothai, one of the ancient Siamese capitals in Thailand. Bill.

Pet Pics

Hi all,

This is an image I took last week of my two Lhasa Apsos. I was fortunate that they were both relaxed and were happy to sit still. It was a nice sunny afternoon and I managed to get this shot as Zig gazed through the window while his sister Tashi looked on from the background.

Regards

Clint

Big Cats - With adjustments...

Hi everyone,

Following on from Brian's recent comments (13th Oct.) about the saturation of the images I posted, I've now been experimenting with applying some adjustments to them.

I'm not sure just how much Saturation is 'enough' - personally I'm not a big fan of highly saturated prints - what are 'realistic colours' anyway? Then again - doesn't every adjustment you make to an image have some degree involve of subjectivity / a personal opinion? In any case - I've had a go...

These first three (pairs of before and after) images were simply adjusted as follows:

1. Add a Curves adjustment layer to set the black, white and grey points
2. Add a Saturation adjustment layer - increasing Yellow only to +20 (not too much...?)
   

These next three pairs were adjusted in almost the same way as those above - I just used a layer mask (on the animal itself) when applying the Saturation adjustment layer (rather than on the whole image).


For the last before/after pair I cloned out a bit of 'green interference' from the fence before doing the Curves and masked Saturation adjustment layers...


I hope you all like the changes - and as with all post all comments and suggestions are more than welcome...

North Wales Masterclass - Return Visit

Hi Everyone,

Following the success of the Bala Masterclass a few weeks back, I decided to pay a return visit to the Tanygisiau Slate Mines last Sunday (21 Sept). I managed to spend a good 6 hours there and the weather was beautyful (resulting in boring skys!). Anyway, I did manage to get a few shots that I'm happy with, which are below.

During the masterclass visit to this location, we were limited by time and tended to stick close to the area near the begining of the lake. As I had more time, I walked along the lake, finding a run down chapel along the way.

There was also an old work house at the far end of the valley. There were the remains of anold aquaduct (in the backgroud) and waterwheel pit!

There's also lots of slate (obvioulsy...)







All the photos were taken with my EOS 40D and imported into Photoshop Lightroom, where they were cropped (if needed) and tweaked.

There are more photo's from here and the actual masterclass course on my own web site, www.keithdw.co.uk, just follow the links to UK and then Tanygrisiau Slate Mines.