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High note
If I felt that 2009 ended with a photographic low note, then 2010 started with a high note. No genuine high key (even if I tried), but I found a lot of other things that I didn’t expect at all. When I left in the morning, my only target was an old and broken tractor down at the mill. I hoped that it would be covered in frost so I could get high key pictures of broken tractor detail… well, turns out that there was no frost. Zero. 
So much for that plan. But these broken windows on the other hand, they were interesting. For the colourful picture, I kind of over-processed it in LR and found that I liked the result, so the picture was worth keeping just for the colour.
It kept snowing all the time and I felt like doing a long walk, so I took a de-tour and snapped a few frames I hoped would work as high key. They didn’t, but failing is also learning so at least I’m learning what doesn’t work.
And then to my great surprise, the sun (almost) came out. It didn’t paint the landscape in golden light, but there was no mistaking the orange orb in the sky. So I made another extension to my walk, in case the light would improve… well it didn’t, but I was incredibly happy with the day anyway. Wonderful weather, I had a lot of photo ops and my legs weren’t dead tired despite the long walk. I guess it helps when you’re not treading through deep snow though…
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It was such a great weekend, you’d almost be fooled into thinking it’s summer (if it weren’t for the fact that the temperature stayed in the ‘teens). Perfect for motorbiking, in other words!
Despite the bike, I’m not really a motor enthusiast. Actually, I’m not even a motorbike enthusiast – I just have my Tricker and that’s perfectly enough for me. But this old tractor, it was just begging to be photographed so I parked my bike and obliged.
And then afterwards, I fiddled with just about every slider in Lightroom to edit the life out of it!
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