David L Baker Photography

Photography with an occasional poem

Tag: OMSystems

  • Ignored

    The vast majority of images from Penmon Point seem to focus (no pun intended) on the lighthouse. However, as you will have noticed in a previous post, the lighthouse comes right up close to the rocky shoreline. This can make it tricky to isolate other than at a really high tide. Often overlooked, there is a marker buoy a little further out which lends itself a little better to the minimalist style of photography. Probably better seen on a bigger screen, and if I have done it right, you should get a larger view by clicking on the image.

  • Again…

    I haven’t finished with Penmon Lighthouse yet. There may be another, or I may move on to other images from our break in North Wales. Who knows…? The mist was a great help, meaning I did not have to blend the horizon to get a minimalist shot – there was no horizon visible. Result.

  • Penmon

    This image cost me. The seaweed is very slippery, and I was probably not wearing the correct footwear. The result, as you may have guessed, was that I slipped and cracked my elbow. I didn’t cry, and I kept the camera safe. So I was determined to get an image after all that.
    The worst of it was that my wife, who was sat in a chair watching, didn’t see me fall and therefore I had no sympathy when I returned. She was too busy watching a heron.
    So this is the lighthouse at Penmon Point on Anglesey, and you may see a couple of additional versions over the next few days…

  • Empty

    Going back to the theme of minimalism, I took this image a few years ago whilst on a wine tour of Bordeaux. After the tasting, the empty wine glasses on a white tablecloth were irresistable. I have a couple of other images from Bordeaux that will find their way on to the blog until I get my backside in gear and go take some new ones.

  • More Shells

    I am annoyed with myself. One step to the left would have made a huge difference, but I am not sure it was possible. Anyhow, as mentioned in the previous post, at sunset there was an art display projected on to the Opera House. The display was called Water Light, by an artist called Badu Gili.

  • Moored

    Kept safe on the sand,
    The low tide and mooring lines
    Keep her from driftin    g.

    Hopefully you are comfortable with the pronoun. She identifies both as a boat and a female, which is why most boats have female names. Except this one, which is a fishing boat and therefore has initial letters to identify the home port followed by a number.
    But the real question is what came first? The boat or the mooring as the main point of interest. It was the rusty mooring loop. Now you know.

  • Gift

    Bridge across the Trent.
    A thoughtful gift from Michael.
    Hard to gift-wrap though.

    A pedestrian bridge across the river Trent at Burton, a centre of beer brewing in the Est Midlands of England. A little flamboyant but it has stood the test of time.

  • Castle?

    Strong against the storm,
    Home for the high and mighty.
    But peasants can look.

    Is it a castle? Well, no it isn’t. Although it was originally built as a castle after the Norman conquest, it is now a faux-castle stately home located in the Vale of Belvoir, belonging to the Duke of Rutland.
    I find it odd that Nottingham Castle very definitely looks like a manor house or stely home, and yet a stately home just a few miles down the road looks distinctly like a castle. But at least we peasants are allowed in the grounds to have a look round.