Layers

In case anyone's interested, this is my second attempt at Kevin Day's layering method.
It's amazingly clever and works a lot better if you do use a tripod and a cable shutter release!
The method is described in detail here.

Basically, you take several different exposures of the same shot and then copy them all into one picture in photoshop. Then remove the bits you don't want from each exposure. So you end up with one picture containing all the best exposed bits.
Not a bad result when what I started with was a choice of these!
Then I played with the final one a bit :)

.Kevin's pictures are amazing, a guaranteed delight to visit.


Yesterday Barney and I went for a wander round the Cotswolds. Picking a place at random from a coffee table book of Britain's countryside, we started with the Westonbirt Arboretum. Fortuitously there was a national tree festival going on so we got to look at stalls with wood turning, carving, assorted craft and arty stuff and some giant sculptures. As well as some aged and splendid trees. Pics another day.
Then we went to the Golden Valley near Stroud (apparently golden with daffs in Spring). Oddly enough, ths was part of the route of an abandoned canal and we explored as far as the Daneway end of the Sapperton tunnel and then drove to the other end of the tunnel (it's collapsed somewhere inside but as it's 3 miles long we didn't get to see the collapsed bit).
Another time I'm going to take the camera and just take pictures of wonderful old Cotswold stone buildings. There are so many you couldn't fail to see something lovely.

Altogether a nice way to spend bank holiday (if you're middle aged, have no small children to tow around and like wonderful views with canals, wood, trees and tunnels :)