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  Dave 6:34 pm on February 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: chicken, cow (19), farnsfield, goat (2), llama (2), nottinghamshire, whitepost (2)   

  White Post Farm 

  

  Towards the end of last year, I was asked by White Post Farm to take some photos of their animals for use in their 2010 leaflet. They discovered a set of photos I had taken there last summer when I shared a few of them on their Facebook page. The two photos I shared were these:

  

  

  Both were taken with a fisheye lens. I think it was the goat photo in particular that caught their attention.

  When I made my first visit to take photos specifically for the leaflet, it was dry but overcast and within an hour it started raining. There were some photos I quite liked, but they all looked like a horrible grey day so I wasn’t really happy with them. I went back again in December when I was taking a mid-week day off work in lieu of working the previous weekend. It was a very bright day with blue skies! – That brightness caused it’s own problems, but that was a much nicer problem to deal with than drab grey skies.

  One of the photos that was taken on that first visit during the hour before it rained was this one, which ended up being used in the leaflet…

  

  There’s a bit of blue in the sky, but I suppose a lot of the background detail doesn’t matter that much when you’ve got a cheeky llama leaning down in to shot to steal the limelight away from the calf and look straight in to the camera!

  The December was where I think I had the time to enjoy the time with the animals and take enough photos in better light.

  Here’s the cow nose from the leaflet:

  

  Here’s a few more from the December visit:

  

  

  

  

  There are plenty more on publicenergy.co.uk in the White Post Farm section.

  Finally, I visited again yesterday to pick up an annual pass and a copy of the 2010 leaflet, parts of which appear at the top of this post. While I was there I took a few more photos, including an addition to my 52 week self portrait series.

  Here I am pictured with Darren the Goat…

  

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    emdot 6:49 am on February 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    So great, Dave! I think Getty would also love your fish-eye animal portraits — i think they’d sell like hotcakes!! :)

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  Dave 1:27 pm on March 1, 2009 Permalink
  Tags: alpaca, nottinghamshire, retford (2), sheep (6), wetlands, yak   

  

  Last Sunday I went to Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve near Retford in Nottinghamshire. It was a pretty cold day and it kept threatening to rain,but it was a very nice place to wander around. It was good to see some animals I’d never seen before. Particularly the Yak pictured above.

  

  This nicely coloured sheep is actually a Cameroon Sheep.

  

  The Yak again – top notch nose and tongue – impressive control too!

  The Alpaca pictured below was funny. It was very interested in what I was doing, and after giving it some feed, it decided to follow me on it’s side of the fence while I was walking along the path on the other side. All the time though, it was looking directly at me instead of where it’s going – it was like it’s head was on rails! Very cute and very soft animal!

  

  There are some more shots in this Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve 02/09.

   
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  Dave 1:38 pm on February 8, 2009 Permalink
  Tags: nottinghamshire, sherwood (9), sherwoodforest (2), snow (3)   

  Sherwood in snow 

  

  I’ve spent the last week off work. This coincided with a lot of snow arriving and lots of people having a fairly horrible time travelling. I was without a car for most of the week after my old one died – I had a few days between a hire car going back and my new car arriving, so I spent that by going for a few walks locally.

  On Thursday, the snow was particularly heavy and I went for a walk in Sherwood Forest. It was nice to see a lot of people out and about, playing in the snow. Childhood memories came flooding back. I can remember sledging at the spot below when I was a kid.

  

  Deeper in to the forest, there were hardly any people at all and a lot of the paths were snow covered and footprint free. It was also nearly silent apart from the crunch every time I took another step.

  There are a few more photos from this walk in this Flickr set:
  Sherwood Forest Snow 02/09.

   
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  Dave 7:58 am on July 16, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: clumberpark (8), flickrmeet (23), geocache (5), nottinghamshire   

  Nottingham Flickr Group Clumber Walk 

  

  

  

  

  There are more photos from everyone involved here.

   
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  Dave 8:03 pm on June 28, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: clumberpark (8), nottinghamshire, show, steam   

  Clumber Park Steam Rally & Country Show 

  

  

   

  

  

  Some more photos from today here.

   
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  Dave 7:05 pm on May 6, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: chesterfieldcanal (3), cow (19), nottinghamshire, retford (2), worksop (2)   

  The cows of the Chesterfield Canal 

  

  I walked along the Chesterfield Canal today from Worksop to Retford. I’ve never walked along that section before. I have walked west from Worksop before and in that direction it’s a very different experience. The section between Worksop and Retford feels more untouched and natural. There aren’t as many people using it, there aren’t as many locks and narrowboats and it’s quieter, apart from a section where you go under the A1. The opposite direction is lovely too – just different.

  The other major difference is that there is field after field full of cows! A lot of these were going about their usual munching duties, but on two occasions I saw a calf chasing a goose around a field – and at pretty impressive speeds too! I only had the Ricoh GX100 with me, so didn’t have an extensive zoom range to capture this. It was such a hot lovely day today that I wanted to travel light, without bags full of paraphernalia!

  

  

  

  There are more photos from the walk in this set.

   
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  Dave 11:37 am on May 5, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: edwinstowe (2), funny (3), nottinghamshire, shit, sign (4)   

  

  Sometimes you see things that make you do a double-take. I wonder what events led up to someone feeling the need to put that sign there. Part of me really doesn’t want to know though.

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    brendadada 12:03 pm on May 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Haha, fab!

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  Dave 7:45 pm on January 21, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: nottinghamshire, umbrella   

  Flying Umbrella 

  

  I went to Attenborough Nature Reserve yesterday for a Nottingham Flickrmeet. I was chatting the evening before with Austen and the subject of umbrellas came up because we thought we were really going to get rained on. Umbrellas are good for spinning in photos generally, but the thought also occurred that we could do a jump shot using an umbrella in the style of the Entopic Phenomena photos. Austen did a sterling job of tucking his legs in while jumping.

  A jumping/flying shot was one of the things on my list of things to do for 2008, but rather than crossing it off as complete, I’m leaving it there to have a few more goes out in a variety of ways during the year.

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    brendadada 2:29 am on January 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Very athletic of him. Like your treatment, too.

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  Dave 12:08 am on January 6, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: bestwood, mining (3), nottinghamshire   

  Bestwood Winding House 

  

  I was fortunate enough to be shown around Bestwood Winding House today by a friend prior to restoration work beginning later this month. I was very impressed with the place. Considering it closed in 1971 it seemed to be in very good condition. A group of ex-miners have been giving up their time to maintain the place – I can’t imagine what state it would have been in had they not been doing that for the last few decades.

  More information about the place: Leaflet from July 2004 open day

  More photos: My Flickr set

  After taking photographs inside, I think I’d have been more successful if I had a separate flash unit. Long exposures and tripods are fine, but there are problems when you have very dark and very bright areas. A flash would allow you to shorten the exposure and even out the lighting differences. On camera flash is usually fairly horrible because it leaves shadows leading away from the camera view – you can get around this a bit by toning down the flash power, but all of these things are working around the problem. It would be easier if you could light up the scene from somewhere other than the camera’s viewpoint and avoid flash reflections. Experimenting with flash is on my photographic to-do list for this year and today’s experience has reinforced that really.

  

  

   
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  Dave 9:19 pm on December 29, 2007 Permalink
  Tags: clipstone, mining (3), nottinghamshire   

  Clipstone Colliery 

  

  The pit at Clipstone has been a feature on my skyline all of my life. I was disappointed in 2003 when the locals voted to get rid of them. For the last few weeks demolition work has been happening on the site (actually it’s been happening since 2005, but seems to have moved up a gear recently), so I popped by today and took a few photos just to make sure I had some before it completely disappeared. Looking back at my Flickr photos, I have several images where it’s visible and I’ve included some of these below:

  

  

  

  This last photograph was taken on a hill just West of Edwinstowe, and the pit itself is in Clipstone. So that’s probably about 3 miles roughly. Those two headstocks are pretty big and can be seen from much further away. It’s going to be sad to see them go missing.

  While searching the web, I found a set of photos spanning several pages taken by someone who doesn’t mind a bit of “urban exploration” ;) – Clipstone Colliery photos at abandoned-britain.com

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    2007 Photo Review (Pt1 - Janua 12:12 pm on December 31, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    [...] to see demolished could be considered eyesores. Maybe they’re just familiar eyesores. The Clipstone Pit headstocks is the other one I’m referring [...]

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    47project 5:13 am on January 2, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Excellent photos! The depth of the last one is excellent.

    -Rich
    http://47photo.wordpress.com

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    Ian Brereton 4:55 pm on February 26, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Great set of photos. I always think that colliery headsticks are very impressive and sometimes beautiful landmarks as is evident in this set, but then I did work in the mining industry so perhaps I’m biased.