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This is the view of Hadrian's Wall fron the car park at Steel Rigg. The wall follows the line of natural escarpments wherever possible - you should just be able to see the wall continuing at the top of the cliffs in the photo. The wall would originally have been 2 or 3 times taller than the shoulder high remnants in my photo.
For those of you who may not of heard of Hadrian's Wall, it is an 80 mile long stone and turf wall built about 2000 years ago by the Roman Empire across the neck of Northern England and marked the boundary of the empire. It was built to stop raids from the unconquered tribes further north.
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to my website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@Mike: Thanks Mike....I feel I should have done better with this as it's a beautiful area! (sometimes it goes like that though)
@Shun: Thanks Shun....yes, I'm never far from going back to B&W :-)
@Anthony Lambert: Thanks for the background Anthony!
@Lorraine: Hi Lorraine....thanks very much!
@MadScientist: Thanks very much....:-)
@Vink: Thanks Vink!
@hugo poon: Hi Hugo.....It's really great to see you've started a new photoblog here at Aminus3!
I hope you'll enjoy it here as much as I have done over the last year that I've been posting photos here.
@Jean-Benoît Maréchal: Thanks Jean-Benoît!
@Cheryl: Thanks Cheryl!....I'm never sure just how much text to put alongside my photos but this one clearly needed some explanation.
@missparis: Thanks....yes, it's a beautiful area!
@Nataly: Hi Nataly!....with regard to my B&W conversion technique I got Photoshop CS3 about 2 months ago so all my recent photos will have been processed using CS3's fantastic dedicated conversion tool which is really easy to use and a lot of fun. After the basic conversion I add contrast using the curves tool and sometimes a dose of USM using a large pixel radius which adds contrast rather than sharpness.
Another tip would be to use a digitiser tablet and pen rather than a mouse as it is a much more accurate tool when you need to be precise or subtle with selection of areas of the image where you want to apply contrast or dodging & burning etc.
@drum: Thanks very much Drum!
@Viewfinder: Thanks very much....it's a beautiful place!
NIKON D40
1/400 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
15 mm (35mm equiv.)
