Day: April 4, 2024

Heritage green (gothic style)

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Dan’s Thursday Doors

St Patrick’s Catholic Church South Grafton. The original church was built in 1867, destroyed by fire in 1913 and rebuilt in 1914.

The side door is rather ordinary. I am not sure whether it’s used except as an emergency exit. Should have a sign saying If the congregation is rockin’ Don’t bother knockin’

Now the front doors are something different
Only built in the early part of last century but in Gothic style. At that time a lot of houses were painted green, cream or red in a combination of the three, a lot of cream and green houses. Funnily enough, they were almost identical colours that the railways used at that time. The railway was a big employer and most blokes knew or had a mate who had a mate in the railway paint stores, if you get my drift of rumours.

So, a Gothic style building with Heritage Green doors. Wish someone would straighten that light though

In case you missed Silent Sunday a few weeks ago

A hat (you wear it well)

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The Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Hats

Sue talked about how men and women wore hats in the past. Photos of cricket matches in the 40’s and 50’s show a sea of men in hats, nearly all the same style and shape. Hats for general wear, my grandfather always plonked his hat on his head leaving the house, a good one for going out and a gardening hat or beanie in winter, have gone out of fashion.

What does peeve me is I was always drilled, enter the house, take off your hat. Now people wear caps everywhere inside and out. I suspect some may even wear them to bed.

As a teenager it was watch out for the bloke driving his car with his hat on!

Living in a country with very high skin cancer rates, hats are popular summer wear now. Some women’s hats are lovely while others are ridiculously huge. The cap wearers better put sunscreen on their ears, yes there has been an increase in cancer on ears. As a kid my mate and I wore terry towelling caps, we looked like a couple of roofing nails walking down the street.

I was going to do some arty farty hat design abstract thing but I saw this photo and thought it was worth a re-run as some people do look good in a hat.

The uncolour (of rust)

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Leanne’s Monochrome Madness: Decay
CMMC April: Close up or Macro

The nuts and bolts of bridge building

Secured by chains

Slide to open

Flapping tin

Do you have a tow truck? Then I have the car for you.
Some with engines. Push one home today.
– Brians Honest Car Yard

Waiting for the postie

Getting around (on a horse)

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One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge: April 2024

The Original – A carousel in Marseillaise, France

Selective Colour: Purple
Decrease brightness 33%
Increased shadows 44%
Increased Highlights 78%
Increased saturation 56%
Increased black 59%
Increased white 2%
Pulled focus 100%

I again used *Albumen a photo technique 1850 – 1900 after I:-
Decreased brightness -2%
Increased contrast +48%
Increased saturation +63%
Then applied a sepia wash at 68%

Increased saturation 13%
Decreased brightness 11%
Used effects filter Retro-Pop set to 68%
Colour Match 100%

There is only one song to ride a Carousel on with the Hollies

*A print made using albumen paper, popular for photographic printing between 1850 and 1900. Thin paper was coated with a layer of egg-white (albumen) containing salt and sensitized with a silver nitrate solution, then printed using daylight under a negative. The resulting paper had a smooth surface with a fine sheen. Albumen prints could be toned with a gold solution which gave a rich purplish-brown colour to the image and reduced the risk of fading.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/glossary-of-art-terms/albumen-print