Introduction
This is a huge post with a lot of photos so apologies in advance if it takes time to load. These are the rest of the photos I took yesterday.
The variable cloud and lighting conditions meant that some of the photos look quite different from each other. The clouds seem to have a strong filtering effect on the amount of warmer tones in the shot which made consistency really difficult.
I have therefore split them up according to time of shooting and how the light was behaving to make them less jarring. I think I will need more practice before I can get the look of these shots more consistent if that is even possible without ruining them.
My personal favourites are the ones that were taken at the end of the day close to sunset. Hope you like them.
Feel free to use these in your own posts if you have use for them via Steemit4free.
About the Church
St Peter's is one of the oldest churches in Europe. The following information is taken from their website where you can also take a virtual tour:
In what had been a promontory clifftop overlooking the north of the harbour and estuary of the River Wear, 60 hides of land were given by King Ecgfrith for Benedict Biscop to found the monastery of St. Peter in the name of the Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury in 673 AD. This was the beginning of a new project a movement to bring learning, culture and the Christian religion to the north of Saxon Britain.
This was the monastery on whose lands the Venerable Bede was born and it was here at Wearmouth that at the age of 7 he entered the schooling of the monastery. This was the time in the dark middle ages known as the Golden Age of Northumbria, when monastic communities spread from Ireland to Iona to Lindisfarne: from Rome via Canterbury to here.
Most of the monastic settlement lies under the churchyard of St.Peter’s having been largely excavated and recorded by Professor Rosemary Cramp of Durham University in the 1960’s and covered over again for protection. Some of the stones and artefacts were unearthed and brought into the church where they can be seen on display today.
The western wall and the porch and lower tower visible today date from the foundation and still stand as part of the St.Peter’s church where the Christians worship as in earliest times.
If you come to the north of England it is well worth a visit.
These were mostly taken in direct sunlight
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The sun was hidden behind clouds for these shots
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These shots were taken close to sunset so are a lot warmer in tone
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Wow, great pics but especially like 9,26 &27! So surreal those last two!
Thanks:)
Hello, great pictures...Love them!
Just saw Steemhelp looks interesting, nice website!
Is it possible to use your photos for my #dailyquotes?
Thanks. Sure feel free to use them or any other of my photos (just not the stock photos in my non photography posts otherwise Getty will come and beat me up!)
I love these pictures.
Thank you:)
@thecryptofiend I love them all but what I find the most intriguing is #7, it looked as if it's been taken with a drone.
As usual I love the tones. What's infrared technique and how does that work? - sorry photography nob :)
No 7 was taken from the North side of the Church where there is a large hill so that is why it looks like a drone. The IR filter is a 590nm one. This lets in infrared light and a little bit of visible light too. This is then white balanced in the Nikon Raw converter. The blue an red channels then need to be swapped in Photoshop to give a blue sky.
You can find an explanation of all of this here:
https://www.lifepixel.com/photo-tutorials/infrared-photoshop-videos
@thecryptofiend ah, that explains it. Anyhow - it still looks magical.
Thank you for explaining the effect of the IR filter and the whole process and thank you for the link ^ ^
You're welcome:)
simply amazing these stone laid walls stood the test of time.
Well most of it dates back between 700-1000 years but that is pretty impressive in itself. There are still some parts that go all the way back to the 7th century which given the English weather is a miracle!
The poor grass looks so dry in spite of it all...
Lol it was soaking wet though! It just looks like that because of the IR!
oh wow! :-O
Lol yes it doesn't really look like that - it is actually green.
Thank you for posting @thecryptofiend. Amazing perspectives.....nice when the bird cooperated......and lovely photographs at sundown. Appreciate you bringing your talent and developed skill to Steemit.
Thank you for the update regarding Mr. Assange...interesting insight into the future of blockchain as well.
You're welcome thanks:)
Gorgeous pictures! They plunge me in medieval time!
Thanks mate:)
beauiful and mysterious
Thank you:)
Wow, these pictures of St. Peter's Church are amazing! How beautiful!
Thank you so much:)
Wow! I'm really digging these! There's something magical about them... the sky, the grass, how crisp they are... I can go on! Great shots, thanks for sharing! :D
Thank you!
Fab pictures, my hubby is colour blind and swears grass is orange so this is probably how he sees the world, :)
Yes that may be - thanks :)