Slideshows

A short AV with pictures taken on a very cold morning at St. Thomas a Becket Church at Fairfield. This is a popular location for local photographers, but not on a cold morning.

Theses pictures were all shot in June 2016 while on holiday in North Wales. The file size is 35mb.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park, an area of beautiful valleys (dales), hills and stone villages.  The photographs in this presentation were taken mainly in the more westerly dales, which are the ones closer to my home.
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Maureen
 

My late wife Sherry had Native American (Cherokee) ancestry and was an avid collector of Native American Indian art. For 35 years we traveled across the southwest USA to various reservations where we traded with native craftsmen and got to know many of them quite well as friends. I spent many years doing gallery art photography for many museums and galleries in the southwest and still stay in touch with a number of well-known artists. These are some of my images of exquisite American Indian art... I shared Sherry's love for both the art and culture of our indigenous people...
Lin

A week last September 2015 exploring the towns along Lake Maggiore, the second largest lake in Italy, part of which is in southern Switzerland.
 
 
 

Images of some of the Ancient Temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and the fusion with the nature surrounding them.  Also a look of the face towers of Bayon. 
The (2) in the title  is for PC 

I changed the original show by simplifying the text.

A short history of Helen Martin's Owl House in Nieu Bethesda in South Africa. This very eccentric lady took her own life by drinking caustic soda. 

One of two weeks in the Italian Lake District late last summer, this one based in Bellagio on Lake Como.
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A week in October 2015 based at Loch Sunart to explore western Lochaber and the Isle of Mull.
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Infra-red images

Filters applied to images have not been very well accepted in the digital age and some of the blame for that can be laid at the door of some photographers. Those who think that adding a filter effect to a badly composed and exposed image, will make it appealing. Sadly, it will not.
The trick, in my view, is to use filters to create something more unique and for that we need to put in just a little effort, thought and creativity.  The technique for creating the images you will see in this slide show is available as a video download from our Photoshop MasterClass section HERE

A couple of hours in April this year spent in the medieval hill top village of Perouge, some 30 km north-east of Lyon, listed amongst the most beautiful villages of France.
 
Maureen

Memories of another visit to Venice. For photo experts - sorry I could not pack my tripod, so hand held at 3200-6400 iso; 1/15 - 1/30 shutter speed and wide open at F4. For audio experts, sorry recorded on my iphone. For Photoshop experts - I did what I could but don't look too closely. Having said that i hope you enjoy.

This is a simple slow fade style slideshow produced for my family, featuring photos taken on a once of a lifetime trip to New Zealand.  

Being a wildlife photographer, I spend many hours in hides and some of these not very productively. During recent wildlife photography trips, I have been taking images of the landscape around where I photograph the wildlife and have tried to make a slideshow of what I see on my visits. Never having made a slideshow before, I have relied on a lot of help from members on the forum, a really big thank you to all who helped. So if you can spare a little over three minutes of your time, please take a look.

Most of the images are in my local area of the Derbyshire Peak District.
YouTube always seems to compress videos so I apologise if some of the images are not as sharp as I would have liked.
 

Antoni Gaudi died in 1926 and today is recognised as one of the worlds greatest architects. This A/V shows some of his most prestigious designs in his home city of Barcelona including the Basilica "Segrada Familia which is still being built and not due for completion until 2026, a century after his death.

Wild Scotland.  2013 - 2015, the Glencoe area and the Isle of Skye.  

For those that might be interested the photos were taken with a number of different cameras - Nikon D300 (APS-C) , Nikon D700 (Full Frame) , Fuji X-T1 (APS-C)  and an iPhone 4.  

I bet you can't pick out which one was taken with a mere iPhone!

My son recently returned from trekking to and from Everest Base Camp  and asked me to create a show from his photographs.  As it is mainly a record of HIS walk, it is rather longer than usual at 7.5 minutes.  Format 16:10.
 
Maureen

A cacophony of pandemonium; sights, sounds and smells, people and pollution, resulting in a sensory overload.  The poverty and rubbish are in sharp contrast to the armed guards at gated hotels, where there is not a single leaf out of place.  On the streets; the children, who seem to have nothing, are happy and clean.  It's confusing, sometimes most disturbing, but a wonderful place to visit and (for me) a once in a lifetime experience.  

Following Barry's advice, I re-visited this show that was V1 in 2015.  For some reason, it just didn't work for me.  But it now does in V2.

I had hoped this show could be good enough for a photo-harmony competition, but sadly I just can't get  it  to flow as well as I'd like.  So, it's just a record of a recent trip to Thailand, i hope you like it.

As the father of the bride, I was warned many months in advance, that I was not to spend the day with a camera.  So; as a gift to my daughter, I sought out a suitable 'professional wedding photographer' and paid for his services.  This took some time, checking out their work and the feedback they had received.  I live in Ireland and my daughter was getting married in England.  Eventually, I came up with 3 photographers and asked my daughter to choose.  To my delight, she chooses the guy I liked best.  On the day, he was superb, relaxed, confident and just did his thing in the background.

All I have done in this slideshow is put together some of Andrew's mono work, with appropriate music.

Another visit to Andalucia, this time in February this year, hopeful of catching the almond blossom in full bloom.  Alas, after a very mild Spring, most of it had already flowered before we arrived.

Evolutionary time is almost impossible to imagine
The original of this sequence used 3 full screen video clips, but unless it was viewed on a powerful desktop, the video was not smooth enough for my liking. When shown on a moderate Laptop, the video full screen does not work so good. Hence the reduction of the video to insets rather than full screen. In my view the video is a vital part of the whole thing with the music

I am not religious in the least but do appreciate church music, church art and church architecture so I have put together this show and being Good Friday it seems appropriate to upload it today.