This was my first organised photography trip since the pandemic. Prior to that I was going on one or two trips a year to learn more about landscape photography and to experience new places. Although these outings were enjoyable I did find that up to six consecutive days of non-stop photography was a bit much for me. I decided to restart with a couple of day trips within travelling range, although this first one was at night. I went to York in March with Mark Banks, who I first met several years ago. We were doing a night shoot in the city, learning to use exposure stacking with a lot of post-processing in Adobe Lightroom. When I got home I found my old Lightroom 6 didn't do exposure merging and my ageing iMac couldn't support Lightroom Classic. So I ended up buying a new computer to run the software to process the photos, making it a very expensive trip! I have recently completed an on-line tutorial with Mark and here is the result of the first image of York Minster. Click on the photo to get a closer view.
It has come at the wrong time really, with long light evenings, foxes and badgers to watch, and so much natural history photography to process. Each of these landscape pictures is likely to take me an evening so it may be a while before I get more done but I'll post them here when I do. A week later I went to Berwick with Mark to do abstract rock photography using focus stacking in Adobe Photoshop so there is even more to be done.
