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Oliver Wood Photography

Pictures & musings from Cheshire

Winter in The Bollin

Ice Bokeh
Ice Bokeh

Winter, cold, icy conditions in the Bollin Valley, Prestbury, Cheshire. A study in shape, bokeh and texture with some abstract elements. These images from 2013 have grown on me over the years and I (now) like the degraded (grainy) and overly abstracted backgrounds in these.

  • Aperture: ƒ/1.7
  • Taken: 21 January, 2013
  • Focal length: 50mm
  • ISO: 100
  • Shutter speed: 1/4000s
winter bollin
Frost Head
ice trees
Frost Trees
Ice Head
Frost Head

31st October 2018 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Experimental, Landscape Elements, Monochrome
Tags
bollin, monochrome, prestbury, winter

Prestbury Tundra

Snow Oak
Snow Oak

I love the visual effect of snow or rather the effect that it has on lighting. These are a few more of my pictures from the very white winter of 2009 when we had persistent snow and ice well into the early part of 2010, it was a photographers dream. The picture above has been treated with a paper texture layer – I like the flattening effect of this but I also like how it conceals many of the digital artefacts arising from noise in the sky — colour noise in blues is always a problem in digital photography!
I have been applying ‘textures’ to my photos for quite a long time now and I think this may also be satisfying a desire to somehow give my images a more ‘organic’ feel, as if they are actually printed on traditional fibre papers. Black and white always makes me feel a nostalgic longing for the darkroom!

Main photo exif details: –

  • Aperture: ƒ/18
  • Camera: NIKON D80
  • Taken: 23 December, 2009
  • Exposure bias: -2/6EV
  • Focal length: 20mm
  • ISO: 200
  • Shutter speed: 1/160s

More pictures from the same the day.

Tundra
Tundra
Snow Path
Snow Path
Snow Angel
Snow Angel

14th December 2017 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Landscape Elements, Monochrome, Photo Stories, Places
Tags
cheshire, monochrome, prestbury, snow, winter

Cheshire Frost

Prestbury Frost
Prestbury Frost

The first real winter weather of 2015/16. The Winter thus far has been one of the warmest on record so it was quite nice to see (and feel) these more bracing conditions at last. I just managed to capture a few little aspects of the frosty condition, quite literally on my doorstep though I wish I could have gotten up into the now white hills of east Cheshire today.

The image above has been treated with one of my signature orton effect processes and I also like the way that the colour and shape are suggestive of a Jackson Pollock painting too.

Original photo exif details:-

Nikon D200, 50mm, 100iso, f2.8, 1/500sec, Jan 16th 2016 – 10:09

Below are two shots from St Peters Churchyard.

Frost 2
Frosty Coniffer
StPeters Bench
StPeters Bench

16th January 2016 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Colour Work, Experimental, Photo Stories
Tags
frost, prestbury, winter

White Winter – Prestbury

Prestbury Winter
Prestbury Winter

Nikon D80, 14mm, 100iso, f11, 1/100sec, Dec 18th 2010 – 12:06am

Another shot from the gloriously snow-bound winter of 2010. This time taken in the fields to north of Prestbury Village in Cheshire. This was a part of the locality that I have very rarely photographed but the snow and light here made the scene just perfect. Again, the image embodies some of my signature quirks – which are not always easy to define but I know they are there! The sky was a little granular in the RAW file which may be attributed to high ISO noise from my Nikon D80 sensor. I now have a tendency to rectify (over correct) this with a layered application of photoshop’s standard noise reduction tool and set to a low level of detail rendering. It’s an effect that I quite like in limited amounts, but of course, it does make the sky look very ‘digital’.

23rd December 2013 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Colour Work, Landscape Elements, Photo Stories, Places
Tags
oak, prestbury, snow, winter

Winter Oak

Winter Oak
Winter Oak

Nikon D80, 10mm, 400iso, f18, 1/160sec, Dec 18th 2011 – 11:54am

Looking back to the very snowy winter of 2010, down in the ‘low fields’ at Prestbury, Cheshire one cold and bright morning.

Very high quality hand made mounted and framed prints of this image are available to order on my Artflakes shop. Click the link below to see more.

 

14th December 2013 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Colour Work, Landscape Elements, Photo Stories
Tags
cheshire, prestbury, snow, winter

Prestbury Winter

Prestbury Snow 2010
Prestbury Snow 2010

Nikon D80, 10mm, 100iso, f9, 1/250sec, Dec 18th 2010 – 12:11pm

In anticipation of the approaching winter months – this shot is from 2010 when we had a very cold winter with prolonged snow fall and a glorious white Christmas. The image here has been HDR treated with a tentative orton process applied.

19th September 2013 Author
Oliver Wood
Categories
Colour Work, Landscape Elements, Local History, Photo Stories, Places
Tags
artworked, cheshire, prestbury, winter

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