Bradgate Silhouettes

This post was supposed to be all about silhouettes (as you can tell from the title), which is what I set out to shoot on my little adventure in Bradgate Park but if you read on you'll see why that is not strictly true. If you haven't seen what I have been doing in Bradgate Park then what is wrong with you! It's been my last 4 posts! But I'll forgive you, and be extra nice by giving you the links to them here:

Bradgate Park

Dear oh deer!

The Moon

Bradgate Sunsets

Anyway, as I was saying, I set out to capture some silhouettes when the sun was setting. I have never really done this so it was really experimental. When I was out and about I was surprised by how good the silhouettes seemed to look, it was only until I got home and plugged my SD card in that I saw that they wern't perfect silhouettes as some details and colours of the foreground were still showing. However, for a first try they aren't so bad!

1. Greg as the sun set - This is probably my favourite photo I have ever taken, I am really proud of it!

2. A funky tree

3. A bench in the distance

4. Rex at a distance

5. Hillside and the monument

6. Greg in a field

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Bradgate Sunsets

Prepare yourself for a post full of extremely similar images, however I just couldn't pick my favourite of the bunch and it's getting late so I can't be bothered either!

Sunsets are great images to capture, and during the winter, if you are a student like me, they come mid afternoon and so it's a great time after you have just got out of bed to go for a walk and shoot some of these! 

Here are some images of the sunset, taken whilst at Bradgate park, which most of you will have seen bits of from my previous posts. You can find them here:

Bradgate Park

Dear oh deer!

The moon

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The moon

There's something about seeing the moon in the daytime that's pretty special. Obviously at winter its possible quite often, but it's not often that the sky is clear enough to see it in all it's glory, and with a brilliant blue sky it looks great. Here are my favourite moon shots I took whilst on my adventure at Bradgate Park.

Both photos are pretty similar, just the location of the moon within the frame changes and obviously the scenery at the bottom, but I couldn't pick my favourite of the two. Taken just as dusk was arriving.

Which one is your favourite?

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Dear oh deer!

Whilst at Bradgate Park, which I mentioned in my last post (Bradgate Park), we saw some deer! My buddy Rex saw them first in their own little walled off area. So we crept up to snap them, however as I only have a short lens I just could not get close enough to take any good pictures, which you can see in the second picture down! boo! 

We did however see some more deer whilst we were walking, and these were loose! So we crept up, like you see in the movies, from a long way away. As we did so, we saw a couple walking along who were going to walk right past them and we were sure that we would scare them! It turns out that these deer are actually quite used to people coming pretty close so they walked past them with no problem! This then lead to us creeping closer and closer and finally ending up with the photos you can see here! You can see the closer we got by looking at them in order, which is 3rd, 4th, 5th and finally the 1st one, as this was my favourite photo so I wanted it to be on top! Further up the pathway we saw a couple deer heading off over the hill which produced the final little photograph.

Deer are pretty majestic animals, and I have never seen any, that I can remember, in the flesh before so I was really lucky to get these snaps. Hopefully for my birthday next month I am going to get a new zoom lens so next time I see them I should have more of a chance of getting some great shots!

p.s. I hope you have finally stopped laughing at my hilarious post title, I seem to have a thing for hilariously awful titles!

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Bradgate Park

Bradgate Park is a little place near Loughborough which me and my friends, Rex and Greg, decided to go to one day, and obviously we all took our cameras! After the little drive over, and parking on the road to avoid paying the parking charge (we are students after all) we set off on our walk! Bradgate Park is a marshland type place, which we soon discovered when it seeped through the bottom of our shoes, but the thing we were most excited for was the deer park. So we set off looking for deer, finding different things on the way which captured my interest.

This is the first of FIVE, yes five!, instalments from Bradgate Park, so keep your eyes peeled over the next week or so! I will link them all here too, when I post them.

Dear oh deer!

The Moon

Bradgate Sunsets

Bradgate Silhouettes

These are the detailed shots I took whilst we were out and about:

1. A stone with a vein of moss running through it.

2. Branches of a tree, with Greg behind climbing it!

3. The tip of a rock.

4. Greg's shoes as the sun set.

5. The wall with Greg in the background.

6. Not so much a detail shot, but I had no other post to put it on! A tree with smoke billowing out of a chimney in the background.

Very Greg-filled!

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